Cafe Milano,

2522 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94704, United States

"Saw the shooting thing and sympathizing with people. Food is a pathetic 1 out of 5 anyway. Large space and most staff are nice when there are no active shooters roaming around the campus."

"this review has nothing to do with the food, but about the fact that during the shooting at a near by college, there were students inside this cafe who pleaded with the people in this cafe to let them stay inside because they didn't know if it was safe to leave (due to the literal shooter on their campus) and guess what they did? they kicked them out... literally forced them to leave the cafe while they were fearing for their own safety and the safety of others, Milano if you delete my review i will come back and make 10 times more.. this is pathetic and unacceptable"

"I have not been here. But, someone I know went there with friends and then that shooting happened yesterday night and a male staff member kicked them out…they begged and pleaded to stay inside, but couldn’t? :( She even said that he told them “I don’t care you need to leave now!!” I’m not sure if she’ll post their more firsthand account review at some point—I cannot imagine having to process this. But that is extremely scary, traumatizing, and disheartening that that happened—it could have been so much worse and someone needed to say something about it. Places I have worked at have discussed if a shooting happens we lock up the store and shelter in place with the customers too so I didn’t think this was a possibility? Please please please have a better plan in place than that. Or make everyone staff wise aware of the plan you do have in place."

"Great place to study. The chai is great and so is the avocado toast. The service is really quick and the employees have always been friendly. The upstairs is a little shabby but the cafe is altogether a wonderful place to chill."

"Bad place to study. Fairly loud party music/radio. Weak wifi at times. A fair number of spots have no electric outlets. Some chairs are church benches, which are horribly uncomfortable after a while. Could use some cleaning. If you came to socialize, then it’s not a bad. Just bad to get any work done."