61B Cafe

Cool décor but that’s about it. Not enough easily accessible parking. Why dont you take credit cards? It can get packed quickly. City Café is just down Edgewood ave, its a better coffee house atmosphere for studies.

Great coffee with even better sweats for a long study session or a place to sit and chat with friends. Reminder — cash only.

I’m new to the area and have been visiting this coffee shop regularly for the past 2 months. The staff is always friendly and the coffee is good. I like that they always have a light roast and dark roast brewing. Make sure to bring cash because they are cash only. Also, grab a salted caramel biscotti because they are delicious.

Folks, the staff may not win any congeniality awards in there, but they’ve never been rude to me. Plus, and most importantly, the coffee is high quality. And the place is nice. «Cash only» is the only drawback, but I like them enough to keep a five on me since I live in the area. Best fresh croissants around. One of the better coffee shops in the east end in my opinion.

This place is a must on this side of the city if you want a coffee, latte or smoothie. The drinks are delicious and the snacks are great. Cookies, scones and the muffins are huge, fresh, and better than anything you can buy at the store.

This gets a solid a-​ok rating in my book. I’ve never had a problem with rude staff and am actually surprised to see those reviews. I’ve always had pleasant interactions with the staff there!
The inside is cute and there is plenty of seating, even if it is a little bit crowded. A pretty big tea list which is always nice and its easy to find an outlet to plug your device into.
I think my biggest problem with it, is that it seems like a kids café at times. Like the R. Square My Little Outback. There are kids that go there after school and wait there until someone comes to pick them up, so they are there unattended, doing their kid thing. A lot of moms will also meet there with their kids. Great gathering place for them, but sometimes they aren’t paying attention to their kids and the children begin getting loud and unruly. I’ve always wondered why not just take the coffee to a park and let the kids run around, rather than confine them to the coffee shop. I once was trying to study for an exam with a woman who stayed in the coffee with a baby screaming for 45 minutes. The entire coffee shop emptied out while she played on her phone and tried to shush the baby.
So I can’t recommend this place for a relaxing cup of coffee or a good place to study but it’s a good spot to take kids if other peoples kids don’t bother you!

61B Café was an impulse stop in my life, and I am still unsure of my overall feelings months later. It is a cute little café style store with indoor and outdoor seating. My friend and I ordered a raspberry pastry ($ 2.50) and Pellegrino sodas. The raspberry pastry was ok but not too special. There were a variety of soda flavors, which was nice.
As others have mentioned, the service is a tad off-​putting. It is cash only, and they are definitely rude about it if you don’t notice the tiny sign. Still tbd on my feelings. I guess it was just OK, but I don’t know that I would come back.

I love this place and always use it as my go to when I want to get work done. The staff is super personable and friendly (especially Chris and except for one woman). There’s free wifi and plenty of room to sit with access to outlets. The tunes they play are usually pretty mellow, but I like to bring my headphones just in case.
Also, be sure to bring cash because they don’t take cards :(that’s the only big downside.

Meh. No refills on the iced tea? And terrible attitude when I asked about it? This place has the ingredients for a great café but not the love and respect of a customer to put it together. Regent Square is one of my teen stomping grounds of youth so I would love to see a business thrive here. But until service improves, I wouldn’t go out of my way to visit.

Nice little coffee shop in the square. Happy once Katerbean closed another coffee shop could take its place.
Average but good coffee. I go for their Chai, it’s great! Service is hit or miss but I typically go during off hours and am never in a rush so I have no real complaints.
They’re cash only. I see a lot of complaints about that but I don’t see how hard it is to carry $ 5 cash on you. I mean it’s not as if you’re dropping a load of money here?

I am done with this place — waited for the two employees to finish their conversation before they even looked at me and asked for my order. Place is cramped with tiny tables and very uncomfortable chairs. Still refuse to take credit cards — just not a place that makes one feel comfortable. Been there several times and doesn’t really seem that ownership cares to cater to their clientele.

The coffee was very good but the service wasn’t the best. The gal and only employee wasn’t very friendly or personable. The tables are a little rickety and close together. They do have free wifi, so that was awesome. It was a nice day so they had garage door-​style windows open. Very cool. I’d return but would hope it was a bit more inviting in terms of service.

When I go to a café, I judge the quality of the place by judging the décor, the price, the food quality and the service.
When I go to a coffee shop, I judge it by the décor and service, since coffee and price are usually comparable across a variety of locations.
The décor of 61B is fine, with the exception that the tables are too small and crowded, as someone else has said.
Service? I went to two coffee shops while I was visiting in Pittsburgh this week. One was in the Strip, where I was greeted as an old friend and treated as a guest.
I tried 61 B Café twice. On my first visit, the coffee was fine, the setting was OK, but the young lady who was the only employee, was sour and unwelcoming. She acted as if she didn’t want to be there. If I owned 61B, I would make sure that was the case.
I tried it a second time, yesterday, thinking that maybe she was having a bad day on Monday, but it was no better. My advice? Stay in college and go to law school. You don’t have much of a career in customer service!

61B is a great spot for delicious coffee. Surprisingly, the smoothies/​juices are freshly made (with actual fruits and vegetables) and absolutely delicious as well — I usually go for a smoothie to avoid being tempted by one of the huge cookies that look equally amazing.
I’ve sat and done work there a couple of times, and the atmosphere is quiet, bright, and pleasant. I especially like that I don’t get that ‘coffee shop smell’ that often permeates my clothes at Coffee Tree Roasters…

I really liked 61B café until … recently … they change the cups and they leak … a lot. Not a big deal if you stay at the store: you can ask for another one. Also, the lids are very thin and not the same at it used to be. So, the coffee spills easily around … This is so inconvenient when you take your coffee in your car … good luck for keeping it clean!
Also, the size of the pastries decreased seriously while the price stay the same. They are good but now, clearly overpriced. The coffee is also clearly overpriced, I paid more than $ 2 for something that looks like a small coffee in any other coffee shop in Pittsburgh.
Last thing: this is a cash only place … Common guys, let’s be serious, everybody takes the credit card now … and you have so many solutions to take the card … at the prices you charge the coffee, there is a lot of margin to pay the credit card processing fees …

I am really enjoying the newest coffee shop in Regent Square.
Pros– delicious coffee drinks. Amazing house baked pastries. The chocolate croissants are the best I ever had.
Cons-​cash only. It’s the 2010’s.

Pretty much the same quality and experience that I’ve had over at 61C in Squirrel Hill. Pros: good coffee, cool décor with character, love the little winding staircase at the back of the building; cons: only 1 (maybe 2– couldn’t really see) electrical outlet on the entire wall (the others are even plugged up, as if they didn’t want to provide that service to patrons), poor quality of furniture, not very quick service. A little out of my way geographically, so I probably wouldn’t travel this far to go here again.

My chai latte with soy milk was one of the best I’ve had in a while – it was spicy and you could taste the tea. It was also served in a real ceramic mug.
The colors in this café are really appealing – grey floors, natural wood chairs. Beautiful glass jars filled with baked goods and sweets line the bar. Young people are sprinkled throughout, working on their laptops, indie music is playing on the overhead speakers. I could almost imagine 61B in NYC. The 61B ambiance and concept make this place more sophisticated than most cafés in the city.
Come here for the atmosphere and experience in addition to the coffee.

Visited for the first time today. It’s a good-​looking space, and the coffee is good. Nice selection of pastries. I had a chocolate chip muffin that was so-​so — a little bland and dry. I’ll try a scone or croissant next time.
As others have mentioned, the tables are tiny. At first I thought that was okay because smaller tables = more tables = room for more patrons. But they are so close together that even though each table has two chairs, there’s really only room for one person per table. Also, the chairs are very uncomfortable.
Finally, I really hope that at some point soon the management will join us in the 21^st century and ACCEPT CREDIT CARDS.
It has potential, and it’s great to have a coffee place in this area, but Biddle’s Escape is not much further away, and it’s cozier, and they do accept cards.

Really enjoying 61B so far. The renovation is a stunning improvement. The staff have been friendly when I’ve visited. I was surprised to learn that they make nearly all their pastries in house, they are really tasty. Apparently they will be adding more seating on the lower level which is even better. I absolutely couldn’t stand Katerbean and 61B is just about a 1000x improvement over what was there before. They even had good music playing inside! As a freelancer I’m always looking for good local places to get some work done; if I’m going to spend a zillion dollars on coffees while partaking in free wifi it may as well be at a nice local shop!
So far I’ve gotten an iced latte and an iced coffee. The iced coffee I didn’t love; it seemed thin and watery as if they did not brew it double strength, but that could have been a fluke. I’ve also gotten a few pastries… a croissant, a macaroon, and a cookie that were all very good and the prices were actually very reasonable.
Only issues… cash only. I really hope this is temporary since there is no free ATM in that area for me. Also I always prefer to see baristas in some kind of uniform or dress code for food safety reasons. One woman working was wearing a tank top, which I was under the impression that those were against health department rules; I’ve never been permitted to wear sleeveless tops at any food service job I’ve had. But these are relatively minor issues, so soon enough I’ll be a regular here.