# Caffe Bene, San Jose CA: Reviews

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-jose/caffe-bene-san-jose-ca. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-10-31.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-jose/caffe-bene-san-jose-ca

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## In short

Caffe Bene is a coffee shop in San Jose, CA. Its AI Score is 27 of 100, which is poor.

What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Coffee shop |
| Address | 181 E Tasman Dr #80, San Jose, CA 95134, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Sun 9 AM to 8 PM |
| Phone | (669) 284-9959 |
| Rating | 4.2 across 939 reviews on Google |
| Quietest time | Tuesday |
| Updated | October 31, 2026 |


## All the details

Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.

| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Location info | Address | 181 E Tasman Dr #80, San Jose, CA 95134, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | Warm, wood-hued coffee shop serving European & Japanese-style cakes & pastries plus smoothies. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Sun 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | Caffe Bene | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (669) 284-9959 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Catering | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Coffee | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | European-style cakes | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Japanese-style cakes | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Pastries | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Smoothies | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Whole cake | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Whole cake orders | AI guess |  |
| Links | Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/caffebene.sanjose | Confirmed | Business website |
| Links | Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/caffebene.sanjose | Confirmed | Business website |
| Links | Website | http://caffebenesanjose.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Links | Yelp | https://www.yelp.com/biz/caffe-bene-san-jose | Confirmed | Business website |


## Services and prices

These are the 2 services Caffe Bene offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.

| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Whole cake |  |  |  | From their website |
| Catering |  |  |  | From their website |


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## The team

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## Visiting Caffe Bene

Address: 181 E Tasman Dr #80, San Jose, CA 95134, USA. Phone: (669) 284-9959. Hours: Mon to Sun 9 AM to 8 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

From Google Business Profile: "Warm, wood-hued coffee shop serving European & Japanese-style cakes & pastries plus smoothies."


### When to go

Quietest day: Tuesday. Busiest day: Sunday. From the popular times on its Google listing.


### Parking and getting in

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### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Tasman & Zanker | Bus stop | 1 min walk |
| Lajevard Diner Cafe | Brunch restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Tasman and Zanker | Transit station | 1 min walk |
| Faz Restaurants & Catering - San Jose | Mediterranean restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Tasman & Zanker | Bus stop | 2 min walk |
| Baypointe - An Interim Park | Park | 5 min walk |


## Reputation

4.2 average across 939 reviews: Google 939. (Confirmed, read July 16, 2026.)

Caffe Bene is known for its good coffee but suffers from rigid customer service policies that detract from the overall experience. (AI guess, from 939 reviews.)


### What people like

- Oatmilk Shakerado
- Cortado with 2% milk
- Spicy chicken sandwich


### What people do not like

- Strict service policies
- Rude or unhelpful staff
- Inconsistent food quality


### Press

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### Awards

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### Directories

Listed on 1 of the 22 directories we checked.

| Directory | Listed |
| --- | --- |
| Alignable | Not listed |
| Angi | Not listed |
| Apple Maps | Listed |
| BBB | Not listed |
| Birdeye | Not listed |
| Brownbook | Not listed |
| Chamber of Commerce | Not listed |
| Cylex | Not listed |
| Facebook | Not listed |
| Foursquare | Not listed |
| Manta | Not listed |
| MapQuest | Not listed |
| MerchantCircle | Not listed |
| Nextdoor | Not listed |
| Superpages | Not listed |
| Thumbtack | Not listed |
| Tripadvisor | Not listed |
| Trustpilot | Not listed |
| Tupalo | Not listed |
| Yellowbook | Not listed |
| Yellow Pages | Not listed |
| Yelp | Not listed |


## Questions people ask


### Ballpark for a visit to a coffee shop in San Jose?


### cancellation list here, is there one


### bad experiences at Caffe Bene, anyone?


### walk in at Caffe Bene in San Jose, or is it appointment only?


### which one for Gift cards and breakfast catering, this place or Coffee & Water?


### last update from here was when?


### worth it or not, what do the regulars say


### parking at Caffe Bene, where does everyone put the car?


### what time does this place actually open?


### Booking a first visit at Caffe Bene, what happens?


### Anything this place is known for doing well?


### killing time on Tasman, any ideas


### Busiest day at Caffe Bene, anyone know?


### people keep recommending Caffe Bene, what for?


### best coffee shop in San Jose


### is San Jose expensive for this, or is it just here


### points or member pricing at Caffe Bene, worth signing up?


## What AI gets wrong about Caffe Bene

We ask Gemini, Perplexity and ChatGPT about Caffe Bene. These are the answers that don’t match this page.

ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 26, 2026. Perplexity, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 17, 2026. Perplexity via DataForSEO on Oct 26, 2026.

| Fact | What AI says | What this page says |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Address | Perplexity via DataForSEO on Oct 26, 2026: 181 E. Tasman Drive | 181 E Tasman Dr #80, San Jose, CA 95134, USA |


## The AI Score: 27 of 100

It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. San Jose coffee shops run 22 to 41. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Caffe Bene scores 27, level with the San Jose average. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Caffe Bene |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 0 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 39 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 13 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 77 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 53 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 67 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Good |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 33 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Poor |

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology

How AI decides what to say about a coffee shop: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business


## Entity map

Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.

| Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Caffe Bene |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Caffe Bene | LocalBusiness | #business | http://caffebenesanjose.com/ | Subject of this page |
| San Jose, California | City | #city |  | City Caffe Bene is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page |


## Topical map

Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the coffee shops in San Jose, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best coffee shops in San Jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose/coffee-shop
- Best businesses in San Jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose


### Nearby

- /los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles
- /san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco
- /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego
- /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine
- /mountain-view: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/mountain-view
- /santa-clara: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/santa-clara


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca


## References


### Sources cited

- [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJq6ftFAXJj4ARw13XXxiP_98 (accessed Jul 16, 2026)
- [2] caffebenesanjose.com, https://caffebenesanjose.com/whole-cake (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [3] caffebenesanjose.com, https://caffebenesanjose.com/catering (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [4] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 26, 2026; Perplexity, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 17, 2026; Perplexity via DataForSEO on Oct 26, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [5] caffebenesanjose.com, http://caffebenesanjose.com/ (accessed Oct 26, 2026)