thank you!

Maranda from No More Homeless Pets in Utah came to the caffe and picked up the donations and gifts for the homeless pets today. She was really excited and happy to see how generous our friends had been. We collected a lot of food, blankets, toys, and treats for the animals this holiday season. We were also able to get some cash donations that all went to help spay and neuter the shelter animals as well. Thank you!


These are just some of the gifts you brought!

Angel Tree for Homeless Pets

This holiday season, caffe d'bolla is giving a slice of Heaven to our four footed friends! caffe d'bolla is hosting an angel tree to support the needs of the animals at No More Homeless Pets.

Frisky felines and playful pups need food, treats, toys, blankets, and most, a home. Yiching has made ornaments out of the photos and profiles of the pets that need homes, and you can pick up an ornament and fulfill a homeless pet's wish. caffe d'bolla will reward the fulfilling of gifts on the angel tree with lattes, in-house fresh-roasted coffee, and gift cards.

caffe d'bolla continues to be dedicated in helping homeless pets and is donating time, effort, money, and tasty drinks for a 'Good Cause for Paws'.

Come help bring plenty of wags and purrs this holiday season!

Fulfill a wish today!

Super Adoption Weekend

It's that time of the year! The Meet Your Match - Pet Super Adoption is taking place this weekend. We adopted all of our pets and they are the BEST ever! We encourage everyone to check it out and who knows, you may find the love of your life at this wonderful event!


Nuki was adopted at the Super Adoption 6 years ago!

OPEN during SLC Marathon

We are OPEN during the Salt Lake City Marathon today, so please find a way around the road closures and come enjoy a great cup!

Check out the all-event route map below and find a way in to see us!

The Homeless Pets Say "Thank You"!

We took down the Angel Tree for Homeless Pets this morning. Thank you for participating and for all the great pet food, toys, and treats you brought for the homeless dogs and cats. It was a wonderful event! These donations will certainly bring a lot of tail-wagging and happy purring!

Angel Tree

This holiday season, caffe d'bolla is giving a slice of Heaven to our four footed friends! caffe d'bolla is hosting an angel tree to support the needs of the animals at No More Homeless Pets.

Frisky felines and playful pups need food, toys, blankets, and most, a home. caffe d'bolla will reward the fulfilling of gifts on the angel tree with free lattes, fresh-roasted coffee, and gift cards.

caffe d'bolla continues to be dedicated in helping homeless pets and is donating time, effort, money, and tasty drinks for a 'Good Cause for Paws'. Come help bring plenty of wags and purrs this holiday season!

Fulfill a wish today!

Flyboy Premiere Passes

We have receieved a few premiere passes for the movie "Flyboy," which invite you and a guest to a speicial advance screeming at the MEGAPLEX theaters at the Gateway at 7:00 pm Tuesday, Sep. 12th.

Because the number of passes are very limited, you MUST email us to reserve a pass and come pick it up at the caffe. Passes will be released on a first-come, first-serve basis. Limist one (admit 2).

Good Cause for Paws and a Treat for You!

We have sent out email to our friends before Christmas and told them all about our "Good Cause for Paws and a Trea for You!" this holiday season.


We, along with hundreds of homeless dogs and cats, invited them to join us to help homeless pets. Yiching went down to the animal shelters and got a list of items the dogs and cats need the most: dog & cat toys, dog & cat treats, blankets, and bundled newspapers. ALL donations will go to the homeless pets.

If you have received our email, or just read this message, and would like to donate, remember to bring the items in before the end of the year this time. As a thank you, you can enjoy a 12oz. caffe latte on us.
Some of you have already brought great presents for the dogs and cats in the shelters. Thank you! Please continue to help the animals in need.

Living Traditions Festival

The Living Traditions Festival is taking place at the Salt Lake City & County Building this weekend. There's performances, food, and other fun stuff going on at the festival and tons of people are attending this great event!

We get some more new people coming to the caffe today. Since the City & County Building is half a block away from us, the festival does bring tons of foot traffic by the caffe. We're glad to get to meet some new faces this weekend due to the festival!

There are, however, some people who'd walk right through the caffe (without even saying "hi" to us!) trying to use the restrooms. As many people might have noticed, we now have locks on our restrooms. Our guest can obtain tokens (and yes, they are tiny little cute tokens) for the restrooms. The locks are now helping us keep the restrooms safe and clean for our guests.



People's been coming in and telling us there are great "cultural foods" at the festival. We shall each take some time off tomorrow to go check out the exciting festival!

"The Ring 2" Movie Premier Passes

We were giving away premier passes of the scary movie "The Ring 2" tonight. The tickets were gone within 5 minutes!

Premier Passes for "Vanity Fair"

Burke from CityWeekly dropped by yesterday to give us movie premier passes for the Reese Witherspoon new movie, "Vanity Fair". "People will come and line up for these passes," he said. Indeed people started coming around 9 a.m. Most of the first people were older ladies and gentlemen. We felt bad they had to wait until 10 to pick up the passes, but when they sat around the store for an hour and talked loud without even looking at us it scared me a little. We didn't want to be rude and chase them out the store (even though Burke said sometimes you just have to tell the non-customer people to line up outside), but they were all gathered at the "loungy area" at the store and didn't seem to notice us. :(

One guy came in and had an Americano. He then saw that we had bubble tea and asked if our bubble tea is "Taiwanese style" bubble tea. Of course it is! He said he taught English in Tainan, Taiwan for a couple of months and he loved it there. He was fun to talk to!

The passes were gone pretty quickly. Many people asked for more than one pass, but according to the paper and Burke, each person can only have one pass. I was surprised when people seemed to be mad when we told them that they could only get one pass (and each pass admits 2.) Those are free passes, but people do get personal about them. We will know more about how to handle these sort of situations next time we have passes again!

It's been a pretty steady day, and we got to meet some new and fun people. It's been great!

Helping the Homeless Pets

After counting the money we made this past weekend, we had about $460 to give to help the dogs and cats. A lady from No More Homelss Pets in Utah came and picked up the check and the donations in the doggie jar. She said, "Wow, you ARE donating everything you made this past weekend!" We are very glad that we got to contribute to the community and to help the animals.

We want to keep being involved with the organization as well as continue helping the pets.

Our Official Grand Opening Day!

It is our official grand opening! We got up early this morning to prepare for the event that was scheduled for 1 p.m. this afternoon. I made two giant cookie bones for the dogs that were coming to the caffe today. Both John and No More Homelss Pets in Utah sent out our press release to the media and we were both hoping some media people will show up and help us get more people to come to the caffe so we can raise more money for the animals.

The Deseret News photographer came with his little girls. He got an Americano for himself and a hot chocolate for his daughters. I steamed the milk with the chocolate so everything blended very well, and I shaked some ground chocolate on top of the drink as well. The girls' eyes brightened up when they saw the ceremic cup and of course, the giant red saucer. They were all smiling.

Fox 13 came and filmed John. They asked why he wanted to donate all proceeds to the animals. John said the two organizations that cannot help themselves are the children and the pets, and we want to help them and do things for them both. Pets are the first ones we can help. The camera guy then came into the store where I was helping several customers. I was making bubble teas. He was really interested and I think he filmed the sealer machine, yeah that cool sealer machine, while I explained what bubble teas were.

People have been very generous. They came and they wanted to help the homeless pets as well. In Utah alone, about 90 healthy and adoptable cats and dogs are euthanized everyday because the shelters cannot afford keeping them all. People need to be responsible and neuter/spay their pets so there won't be as many innocent little lives being killed daily. No More Homeless Pets in Utah's goal is to end pet euthanization within a 5- year program period. We really appreciate what No More Homeless Pets is doing and we want to continue working with them.

A few people called later today and asked John about the caffe and the charity event because they saw him on the news! We're so glad people are caring about the community and the homeless pets!

We had a good day at work. People were kind and the pets were special. Hopefully tomorrow we can do as well or better for the animals.

Two Days Before Our Grand Opening!

It's two days before our grand opening! We're all really excited here at the caffe! No More Homeless Pets in Utah sent us a draft of the press release they are sending out to the media. It looks great! We're all thinking of ways to bring more people to the caffe so we can raise more money for the animals. We are going to donate all proceeds during this weekend to them.

We've been thinking about adding a couple of food items. Many people suggested bagels. We like bagels so we think it's a pretty good idea to have bagels on the menu. Oh, and someone brought us the best baklava. It is the most amazing baklava ever! The company make them fresh to order, unlike the others who make a bunch and then freeze them for later. We can really taste the difference!

People start to notice the ad John put out in City Weekly. They bring in the coupons and want tasty bubble teas! Yay! We're glad that people like the Chewy Pearls. I've been busy cooking them constantly. It's good to cook those chewy stuff in smaller amount and frequently, I believe. The Chewy Pearls' texture and flavor are so much better when they are fresh.