30-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
A new Revival Cafe location in Watertown has a very appealing setting
Millennial Toast with avocado, topped with an egg at Revival Cafe in Watertown.
Lane Turner/Globe Staff
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What to eat:
The menu offers many things you'd expect to see at a cafe, but with a little more style. Bagelicious combines a housemade bagel with egg whites, a 'broccoli situation,' cheddar, and spicy aioli (it's the most popular item on the menu, Postal tells me). Millennial Toast is layered with avocado, pickled red onions, and feta, topped with a 6-minute egg. Poppyseed dressing comes with Easy Chickpeasy Salad (vegan and gluten-free), cucumbers, radishes, spinach, and crispy shallots. If you're looking for something a little more substantial, Lime after Lime Noodle Bowl is a mixture of chicken meatballs, sweet potato noodles, broccoli, cilantro, and lime vinaigrette. Or try chicken Caesar with Parm and croutons. Coffee cake, banana bread, muffins, biscuits, and cookies adorn the pastry case.
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Lime after Lime Noodle Bowl at Revival Cafe.
Lane Turner/Globe Staff
What to drink:
Every configuration of coffee you could ever hope for, including cortado, macchiato, flat white, mocha, babyccino (for the kids: steamed milk dusted with chocolate), nitro cold brew, iced golden crema, iced red eye. Also: matcha, homemade lemonade, iced ginger sparkler, boutique juices, teas.
The takeaway:
If you worked on this campus, you'd want to take your laptop, head straight for Revival, and stay a long while. The cafe itself has few more than half a dozen seats, many more outside on a sunny and partly shaded patio. The real drawer is the company foyer, with double-high ceilings, beautiful lighting, comfortable chairs, couches, and work tables. Pubic parking and restrooms. What more do you need?
99 Coolidge Ave., Watertown, 857-270-6209,
A customer places an order at Revival Cafe in Watertown.
Lane Turner/Globe Staff
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