On What Grounds?

7:00 am - 3:00 pm
  • Sunday 8:00 am - 2:00 pm
  • Monday 7:00 am - 3:00 pm
  • Tuesday 7:00 am - 3:00 pm
  • Wednesday 7:00 am - 3:00 pm
  • Thursday 7:00 am - 3:00 pm
  • Friday 7:00 am - 3:00 pm
  • Saturday 7:00 am - 3:00 pm
Type: Sweets and Ice Cream
Features: Cafe/Deli, Lite Fare
 On What Grounds? is a locally owned coffee shop and breakfast stop in Berlin, Maryland. We are proud to feature Intelligentsia Coffee, roasted according to the highest standards and carefully prepared by our highly trained and experienced baristas. 

In addition to our high-quality coffee, we also offer a wide selection of specialty teas, breakfast sandwiches, baked goods and pastries, house made chocolates (and whipped cream!), and a heaping handful of small-town charm.

On What Grounds?: Coffee so good, it shouldn't be legal.
On What Grounds?

Recent Reviews

On What Grounds?
Colleen Carter : 1 on 8/5/2023 1:44 pm
The staff is friendly and very helpful.
Very disappointed in the food. Very bland. I have never had sausage that was flavorless, very unusual, but their sausage has NO flavor. I got a sausage, egg and cheese (cheddar) breakfast sandwich on English muffin. It was lacking in every area. The flavor and strength of the coffee is disappointing as well. I ordered an ice latte (regular milk) and it came out almost white (see pic). It was all milk with a very mild coffee flavor.
My husband and I are coffee connoisseurs, and we know good coffee. We were so disappointed as this location had 4.5 stars on Google.
It isn’t incredibly expensive. I feel prices were decent, but it wasn’t worth what we paid.
There is a place about 8 min away called Born To Move Coffee Shop, I would recommend this location as the coffee and lattes were delicious. We didn’t try their food, but it can’t be worse than what we had here.

Appreciate the kind service here, just not a good place for coffee and breakfast.
1 5
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FinnAgain : 3 on 3/28/2024 9:30 pm
Great customer service and atmosphere, the woman working at the counter was very nice.
The food was good, I have celiac disease and was able to get a gluten free espresso brownie and a pumpkin loaf. However, the iced mocha was dissapointing.
3 5
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TJ Coulbourne : 1 on 2/29/2024 2:48 am
We usually go here all the time and don’t have any problems and never have we felt so disrespected by this older man that works there was extremely rude.
so we went to another coffee shop called 2nd Wave Coffee & Social
and they treated us way better! we told them how rude the guy was towards us and apparently someone else told them the same thing. so apparently we are not the only ones that had a problem with this guy.
So that being said because of how we were treated by him we're not going back there again!
1 5
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