Bruin Buzz

So today they can’t accept cash? Huh? How does that happen? FAIL.
I won’t be going back

Decent service and a calm atmosphere since there isn’t any seating. This makes stopping by for a drink or something to eat much quieter than any other café on campus.
However, I usually find the Black Iced Tea here brewed too strongly even for my tastes. Still, I would recommend this location if you want a good selection of drinks and pastries without the stress of navigating through tables of studying and talking students.

Both cashier and barrista were friendly. Bothered to ask if I wanted whip cream. Got the Chai Ice Blendz tall size. Definitely more drink than I wanted. Too sweet, but they didn’t skimp on the Chai powder so the drink was full of flavor all the way to the last sip.

Decent coffee spot close to my office. Kerckhoff coffee house is better IMO, but I’m too lazy to make the trek to the next building.
The Iced Cap Royale isn’t as good as Kerckhoff’s. Something about BUZZ’s tastes a little harsher.

I don’t think the coffee here is really better than at Kerckhoff, I just think they’ve got one or two employees who know their stuff slightly better. The drip tastes exactly the same to me, and I drink my drip black or with half and half so I’m not drowning it in sugar. Same story, same song: it’s all about convenience.

Bruin Buzz, you serve up some really disastrous drinks.
Still, your ASUCLA staff members are super friendly. I’ll give your pastries a try next time.

The drinks are inconsistent depending on who makes it. I usually come here because it’s convenient for me. I love trying out their season specialties and wish that some of them would be on the daily menu instead! It is a bit pricier for the quality and taste of the drinks. Roughly around 3 – 4 dollars for a tall latte for students! Service is always great here!

I really don’t know what to say other than this is just a convenient coffee house for those of us who don’t want to walk all the way up to Kerckhoff for, in my opinion, better coffee. I realize they are owned by the same company and they probably use the exact same coffee, but I just have this mentality that Kerckhoff is 30 984 309 times better.
They do, however, always have the bagels that I want and don’t skimp on the coffee for those of us who only like to put a tad of milk in our cup ‘o joe. I’m pretty sure I can get cheaper coffee from the Carl’s Jr. right next door, but this is just an easier one-​stop shop for my caffeine pick-​me-​up in the morning.
Kudos to the competent UCLA students working here as well!

I was waiting for the UCLA Store to open up and was walking around Ackerman Union when I saw a sign that says «Now Serving Cupcakes.» Ahh cupcakes! Woohoo! The sign showed that there was special filling inside their cupcakes. I knew I had to stop by once I completed my shopping at the UCLA Store.
When I stopped by, I saw some vanilla cupcakes, chocolate cupcakes and what they called jelly roll cupcakes. The cupcakes are kinda small in size but I deifnitely wanted to try one. The jelly roll cupcakes were the cutest. Pink frosting with a raspberry on top. I decided to get one of those.
The cost of the cupcake was $ 2.79 including tax.
Tastewise the cupcake was ok. The main cupcake itself wasn’t too moist. There was filling inside but it wasn’t too much. It was raspberry filling. The frosting was ok but mostly sugar base. The raspberry on top was a gummy candy raspberry. Hmm I kinda liked the gummy candy raspberry concept on top of the cupcake. It was a nice touch.
Anyways the cupcakes were ok. They’re definitely not the greatest but it is kinda neat to see a cupcake place on campus :). I think they should make special blue and gold UCLA cupcakes That would definitely be cool :). Hmm and then maybe they could put a gummy bear on top (to symbolize a Bruin)… :)…hmm what do you think? :)

The thing I love most about Bruin Buzz is that it seems to be staffed almost entirely by aliens from outer space, who have found it their unhappy lot in life to have crashed onto this dismal planet, where they are forced, inexplicably, to make coffee for thankless undergraduates, (whose general appearance they have assumed, naturally, in order to make themselves less conspicuous).
Never mind that they are unfamiliar with «coffee.» Never mind that they have no familiarity with earth money, with its foolish denominations and ridiculous appearance.
That’s about all I can come up with to explain the friendly, blank stares of un-​recognition when I order a regular cup of «coffee.» (Would it help if I pointed to the sign, guys?) That’s the only reason I can imagine for the smiling-​but-​shell-​shocked demeanor on display as they sloooowly make my (occasionally correct!) change.
The point is, imagining these scenarios in line does actually delight me, and Bruin Buzz has got the best coffee on campus — so, four stars guys. I hope by the time your spaceship is fixed you will have the coffee thing down well enough to take some home and impress your friends.