Nous Espresso

"Food is good but pricy. If you order soup, be sure to ask the cashier to double check if it’s still in stock. They might charge you and then find out the soup jar is empty."

"Their gyudong is really delicious and will fill your stomach for a whole day basically. The soft-boiled egg will upgrade the whole taste. But it is definitely expensive for a just deli. Except the price, everything was satisfying."

"You will need a Columbia ID/a friend who is a student at the uni to be let in. This place gets a lot of daylight and grad student footfall through the day. It's a great place to work if you have high tolerance for ambient noise/a good pair of noise cancelling headphones. Grab a donburi or bahn-mi when your stomach starts to growl from too much reading!"

"You need to be a graduate student or specific faculty – or you know someone who is – in order to access to this spot. It is located inside the Graduate Student Center of Philosophy Hall. To the left of the entrance is where the cafe is located. You need an ID badge to enter. The inside the cafe was quite nice! Very high building, clean and modern. A good place for grad students to relax in peace and quiet. There is an ordering counter with baked goods nicely displayed. They also have sandwich, salad, soup, and few other items here. We started off with Hot Matcha Latte and Iced Matcha Latte, with pretty good matcha flavor. It was surprisingly good, we were happy with them both. For food, we Avocado Toast and few donburi dishes. The Avocado Toast didn’t look like much, but it was actually REALLY good! They have a few donburi, and we chose Tuna Yukke Don and Gyuu Don. It came out without poached egg. We took it back to the staff, and he said “yes, you can order these without eggs.” Ummm, well, we DO want to eggs with these. The older staff got a bit confused, went to the back kitchen, and then discovered they don’t have eggs brought in yet. What! About 10 minutes of wait, they brought in eggs, and made the poached eggs for our dishes. Needless to say, our food was staring to get cold, but not too bad… Finally, the egg was on the top with some seasoning, and the our “bowls” were finally complete. They were good and tasty. To finish our lunch, we ordered a cup of Mango from inside their refrigerator. They were all perfectly ripe and juicy! Overall, the experience was good. The price is a bit high, but then the quality of food and drink was really good too. If they didn’t have the egg incident, it would have been much better experience."

"The best place for coffee and delicious snacks on Columbia's campus. Great báhn mì sandwiches. Also, if you want sushi on campus, Nous Espresso is your place. Only open to graduate students and faculty."