Nautical Bean Espresso Cafe

Christopher Pratt

A moan of ecstasy escapes my man’s lips as the girthy vegan burrito leaves his mouth. He doesn’t know what’s in it, but the pop of magnanimous chorizo made from the slaughtered unmeats of some sort of ensorcelled vegetable proteins puts him in a trance of abject surprise and quiet contemplation of the numinous. While he zones out into a tasty oblivion, I sip some somewhat lackluster black drip. Drinkable to be sure, a world above motel or McDonalds breakfast swill, but not the “3rd Wave” Ethiopian or single origin brew from Bali that’ll knock your socks off if you’re looking for that sort of thing. The open face avo toast was a spicy treat atop some chunkily mashed avocado and an over easy eggness. A filling way to break fast. They have pastries, day-olds, and free wifi in a small space with lots of air flow. Friendly staff. Would recommend.

Sunshine

Excellent coffee and amazing service. Plenty of indoor and outdoor seats at the back

Daniel Cone

The environment at Libertine coffee bar is smooth and inviting. Staff are polite and fast. Coffee is great too, not just the same old cup from the same old places, its extremely hot (which for some reason is hard to find these days), full bodied flavor, and they have a great food menu, with delicious breakfast items, as well as options for rest of the day. Also have good selection of tea and baked goods. Nice indoor/outdoor seating. Clean and open vibe inside.

Tawnie S.

This is one of the best coffee spots in SLO. The baristas are all so great, the breakfast burritos are (in my opinion) the best. Not to mention, the coffee. They use slake roasters and their coffee is so good, and always made exactly how you want. (And if it’s not, all of the baristas are so kind and will help you out) 10/10 would recommend!

Jeanette Asgekar

Okay, found a new one in SLO, beans roasted in Cambria. Good vibes too...

Shantal Lohse

Nice quite place. I ordered the Bulletproof coffee I enjoyed it. Services was great. Will definitely go again.

Everything about this place was so average I avoided it for years, checking in periodically (as its close to my house). Consistently bad customer service, and below average food and drink. That is until recently! Over the last two months I've found Reese, Taylor, and Sage to be incredibly friendly, excellent baristas, and all around have increased my impression of this shop. My dog loves it, and I'm becoming more and more regular as I have positive experience after positive experience.

Visiting from LA and I think I had the best Vanilla Latte I have ever had. And the staff is so very sweet. She asked what do you have planned today? And she really wanted to know! Bravo 👏

Super good breakfast sandwiches! The English muffin is sooo fresh and yummy! We got the chorizo and bacon sandwiches. Great coffee and espresso drinks! Easy parking.

Staff is always so warm and welcoming on my early mornings and coffee is ALWAYS perfect! Very consistent. Highly recommend any of the breakfast items as well!

I came to SLO for the weekend & found this cute coffee shop on TikTok that was highly recommended. The 2 young ladies that were working today were extremely sweethearts & understood my little complicated order! Lol they were extremely nice and the customer service was beyond exceptional. I love the set up of the coffee shop, I also bought some really cool stickers that the manger makes! I highly recommend this place! Can't wait to come back next time I'm in SLO, please check this place out! Worth every $$$ in my opinion!

This is my go-to weekly spot for a delicious avocado breakfast burrito and vanilla latte. I travel frequently and as a fan of breakfast burritos I constantly compare to my fav at Libertine--literally none compare. The entire staff is always lovely as well.

Lexy Moreno

Staff is always so warm and welcoming on my early mornings and coffee is ALWAYS perfect! Very consistent. Highly recommend any of the breakfast items as well!

K Le

Super good breakfast sandwiches! The English muffin is sooo fresh and yummy! We got the chorizo and bacon sandwiches. Great coffee and espresso drinks! Easy parking.

Karen Gomez

I came to SLO for the weekend & found this cute coffee shop on TikTok that was highly recommended. The 2 young ladies that were working today were extremely sweethearts & understood my little complicated order! Lol they were extremely nice and the customer service was beyond exceptional. I love the set up of the coffee shop, I also bought some really cool stickers that the manger makes! I highly recommend this place! Can't wait to come back next time I'm in SLO, please check this place out! Worth every $$$ in my opinion!

Kathy Miller

Visiting from LA and I think I had the best Vanilla Latte I have ever had. And the staff is so very sweet. She asked what do you have planned today? And she really wanted to know! Bravo 👏

Mike Johnson

Everything about this place was so average I avoided it for years, checking in periodically (as its close to my house). Consistently bad customer service, and below average food and drink. That is until recently! Over the last two months I've found Reese, Taylor, and Sage to be incredibly friendly, excellent baristas, and all around have increased my impression of this shop. My dog loves it, and I'm becoming more and more regular as I have positive experience after positive experience.

Their coffee bar located at 1240 Broad St, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 is a good place to grab a quality, well priced breakfast in San Luis Obispo, CA. I usually get the Croissandwich, a big croissant with eggs, cheese, onions, tomato and avocado, hold the tomato for me. It’s a big sandwich. They may use up to three eggs. Oh, their drip coffee is also good.

I clearly caught this coffee shop on an off day especially based on previous reviews. I did not order the burrito and since there was only one person working, I ordered just a latte and an oatmeal. I threw the out meal out and I wound up tossing the coffee too and walked to another shop instead. The good news is that Libertines is very clean, the decor is great and the guy working there was fabulous. The other people stopping in were obviously locals so that is a good sign as to quality of restaurants. Despite the one miss, I’ll certainly try this spot again when back in SLO.

Farshid K

Their coffee bar located at 1240 Broad St, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 is a good place to grab a quality, well priced breakfast in San Luis Obispo, CA. I usually get the Croissandwich, a big croissant with eggs, cheese, onions, tomato and avocado, hold the tomato for me. It’s a big sandwich. They may use up to three eggs. Oh, their drip coffee is also good.

Michael Delehanty Real Estate

I clearly caught this coffee shop on an off day especially based on previous reviews. I did not order the burrito and since there was only one person working, I ordered just a latte and an oatmeal. I threw the out meal out and I wound up tossing the coffee too and walked to another shop instead. The good news is that Libertines is very clean, the decor is great and the guy working there was fabulous. The other people stopping in were obviously locals so that is a good sign as to quality of restaurants. Despite the one miss, I’ll certainly try this spot again when back in SLO.

Very conflicted review. The staff is so nice, they’re all very kind and attentive. The coffee is great not super bitter. The shop itself is very nice and clean but the food is where I’m extremely dissatisfied. Their food used to be SO good. But recently it’s gotten REALLY bad. This time I got the avocado toast. This is usually a safe thing to get as it’s hard to mess up avocado and bread but when I took my first bite I nearly spit it out. I’m not sure what they do to the bread but it tasted like it was deep fried 3 times in week old oil. My fiancé got the breakfast burrito and was also disappointed by it. It was overly greasy and barely had any bacon. I’ll come back for the coffee but I think I’ll stay away from the food from now on.

Jillian Claire

Very conflicted review. The staff is so nice, they’re all very kind and attentive. The coffee is great not super bitter. The shop itself is very nice and clean but the food is where I’m extremely dissatisfied. Their food used to be SO good. But recently it’s gotten REALLY bad. This time I got the avocado toast. This is usually a safe thing to get as it’s hard to mess up avocado and bread but when I took my first bite I nearly spit it out. I’m not sure what they do to the bread but it tasted like it was deep fried 3 times in week old oil. My fiancé got the breakfast burrito and was also disappointed by it. It was overly greasy and barely had any bacon. I’ll come back for the coffee but I think I’ll stay away from the food from now on.

Can’t recommend the Gibraltar. Too hot and not great taste.

a rude experience this time around. i like this place a lot just don’t like being treated badly as a paying customer for asking a question…

Glenn Serre

Can’t recommend the Gibraltar. Too hot and not great taste.

em

a rude experience this time around. i like this place a lot just don’t like being treated badly as a paying customer for asking a question…

Kieu Ngoc Anh

We had breakfast there and it was bad :( came in a plastic box, the avocado wasn't fresh and the toast smelled heavily of oil. The coffee was ok though, just not the food.

This place is the worst place i’ve been to in SLO. We payed so much money for a very terrible experience here. The “morning bowl” was literally a burnt scrambled egg with a side of tater tots and soggy toast… and then the waitress had the audacity to give us attitude and be all upset when we asked if it was possible to get a refund or have it remade. It was absurd — absolutely nothing was good. The chicken and waffles was literally chicken tenders—microwaved and crappy not home made waffles. The coffee wad also over sweetened and weak. the chai tasted like pure caramel syrup with oat milk.

Taylor Diaz

This place is the worst place i’ve been to in SLO. We payed so much money for a very terrible experience here. The “morning bowl” was literally a burnt scrambled egg with a side of tater tots and soggy toast… and then the waitress had the audacity to give us attitude and be all upset when we asked if it was possible to get a refund or have it remade. It was absurd — absolutely nothing was good. The chicken and waffles was literally chicken tenders—microwaved and crappy not home made waffles. The coffee wad also over sweetened and weak. the chai tasted like pure caramel syrup with oat milk.