# Em Coffee House, San Jose CA: Reviews

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By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-09-14.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-jose/em-coffee-house-san-jose-ca

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## In short

Em Coffee House is a coffee shop in San Jose, CA. Its AI Score is 26 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 | 979 Story Rd Unit 7096, San Jose, CA 95122, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Sun 8 AM to 8 PM |
| Phone | (408) 216-0417 |
| Rating | 4.5 across 35 reviews on Google |
| Updated | September 14, 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 | 979 Story Rd Unit 7096, San Jose, CA 95122, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | Em Coffee House is a modern Vietnamese coffeehouse in San Jose serving specialty coffee, ceremonial matcha, handcrafted lattes, and seasonal drinks. Inspired by Vietnamese café culture and built around community, we're here to help you enjoy every moment, one cup at a time. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Sun 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | Em Coffee House - San Jose | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (408) 216-0417 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Blogemcoffeehouseoffeehouse | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Career | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Ceremonial matcha | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Experience details | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Handcrafted lattes | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Online ordering | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Ourlocations | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Reservations | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Seasonal drinks | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Specialty coffee | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Tracker page | From their website | Business website |
| Links | Facebook | https://facebook.com/emcoffeehjemcoffeehouseouse | AI guess | Our record |
| Links | Instagram | https://instagram.com/emcoffeehouse | AI guess | Our record |
| Links | Website | https://emcoffeehouse.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |


## Services and prices

These are the 7 services Em Coffee House offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.

| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Tracker page |  |  |  | From their website |
| Blogemcoffeehouseoffeehouse |  |  |  | From their website |
| Reservations |  |  |  | From their website |
| Career |  |  |  | From their website |
| Online ordering |  |  |  | From their website |
| Experience details |  |  |  | From their website |
| Ourlocations |  |  |  | From their website |


### Known for

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## The team

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## Visiting Em Coffee House

Address: 979 Story Rd Unit 7096, San Jose, CA 95122, USA. Phone: (408) 216-0417. Hours: Mon to Sun 8 AM to 8 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

From Google Business Profile: "Em Coffee House is a modern Vietnamese coffeehouse in San Jose serving specialty coffee, ceremonial matcha, handcrafted lattes, and seasonal drinks. Inspired by Vietnamese café culture and built around community, we're here to help you enjoy every moment, one cup at a time."


### Parking and getting in

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### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sweet Gelato \| Tea Lounge | Tea house | 1 min walk |
| Arisan Tea & Coffee House | Tea house | 1 min walk |
| Cơm 90° | Vietnamese restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Lang Nuong Restaurant San Jose | Asian restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Tan Dinh Cafe | Vietnamese restaurant | 1 min walk |
| TP Bánh Bao 5 | Takeout restaurant | 1 min walk |


## Reputation

4.5 average across 35 reviews: Google 35. (Confirmed, read September 14, 2026.)

Em Coffee House stands out for its unique Vietnamese coffee offerings and creative matcha drinks. (AI guess, from 35 reviews.)


### What people like

- Earl Gray matcha
- Salted einspanner
- Ube-Coco Latte
- Vietnamese iced coffee with truffle foam
- Panda coconut drink


### What people do not like

- Matcha drinks can be overly sweet
- Long waits during peak hours
- Limited options for customizing sugar levels


### Press

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### Awards

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### Directories

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## Questions people ask


### picking between the two, is Coffee & Water the safer bet?


### Do they post anywhere?


### reviews all look glowing, what are the real complaints?


### rough idea what Em Coffee House costs?


### anywhere cheaper than Em Coffee House in San Jose that is still good?


### Whereabouts is Em Coffee House?


### best coffee shop in San Jose


### is there a rewards thing at Em Coffee House


### anything I should sort out before a first visit at Em Coffee House?


### are prices in San Jose higher than everywhere else


### the good stuff about this place, what is it?


### what else is on Story around this place?


### does Em Coffee House ever have cancellations


### Worth the hype here?


### opening hours at Em Coffee House in San Jose, what are they these days?


## The AI Score: 26 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. Em Coffee House scores 26, below the San Jose average of 27. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Em Coffee House |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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 | 40 | 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 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 73 | 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 | 55 | 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 | 63 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Fair |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 77 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Good |

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 Em Coffee House |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Em Coffee House | LocalBusiness | #business | https://emcoffeehouse.com/ | Subject of this page |
| San Jose, California | City | #city |  | City Em Coffee House 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:ChIJRTulA-zNj4AR3G6TK5fk0II (accessed Sep 14, 2026)
- [2] emcoffeehouse.com, https://www.emcoffeehouse.com/tracker-page (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [3] emcoffeehouse.com, https://www.emcoffeehouse.com/career-join-our-team (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [4] emcoffeehouse.com, https://www.emcoffeehouse.com/online-ordering (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [5] emcoffeehouse.com, https://www.emcoffeehouse.com/ourlocations (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [6] emcoffeehouse.com, https://www.emcoffeehouse.com/reservations (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [7] emcoffeehouse.com, https://www.emcoffeehouse.com/blogemcoffeehouseoffeehouse (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [8] emcoffeehouse.com, https://www.emcoffeehouse.com/experience-details (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [9] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 14, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 20, 2026)