Back To The Grind

Serving Gourmet Coffee and Teas while offering excellent Breakfast & Lunch including Vegan and Gluten free options in Riverside's Most Comfortable Living Room. Founded in 1996, Back to the Grind brought to Downtown Riverside the first community coffee shop that was an alternative to the old coffee gathering places of the past, set in a Victorian café. We now serve Beer and Wine. Music venues including Bands, Open Mic, DJ and Poetry nights.

Back To The Grind is one of the coffee shops listed in Riverside, California. The business is registered at 3575 University Ave, Riverside, CA 92501; use this page to check its hours, phone number and Google rating before you make the trip. Besides its main category, the business also describes itself as bar, breakfast restaurant, live music bar, so it may cover more than the name suggests.

Coffee in the United States is served by three kinds of places: national chains with drive-thrus and mobile ordering, independent neighborhood cafes that double as a workspace or a meeting spot, and specialty shops that roast their own beans or buy single-origin lots and brew them by pour-over, espresso or cold brew. Most open between 6 and 7 a.m. on weekdays, slightly later on weekends, and the busiest hour is the commute rush before 9. A drip coffee runs a few dollars, espresso drinks and specialty pours more, and tipping a dollar or a percentage on the card reader is customary but not required. Nearly every cafe offers free Wi-Fi, though some limit laptop seating at peak times or on weekends, and outlets are often the scarce resource.

Hours are published for 7 days a week. Typical hours are 8 am–9 pm. Hours in the United States do change around federal holidays and long weekends, so a quick call before a special trip is sensible. The listed phone number is (951) 784-0800. Many businesses also reply to text messages on the same number if it is a cell phone. More information is available on its website, facebook.com.

Customers rate it 4.5 out of 5 on Google across 1,418 reviews, placing it among the better-regarded coffee shops in Riverside.

Riverside is in California, on the West Coast, where the climate ranges from foggy coast to hot inland valleys, wildfire season can affect air quality in late summer, and traffic is the main thing to plan around. US addresses list the street number and name, then the city, state abbreviation and ZIP code, and Riverside follows the same pattern; a suite or apartment number such as Ste 200 refers to a unit inside the building. The map link on this page shows the exact spot.

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