"No lover shall woo me
Unless I have his pledge
Written in the marriage settlement,
That he will allow me
To drink coffee when I please."
-JS Bach, 'Coffee Cantata'

Archive for February, 2007

Satellite Coffeeshop

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Satellite Coffeeshop is the exemplar for curbing one’s zeal for breaking off a review within a New York minute of sitting down in a cafe – i.e., spending 20 minutes in an easy chair and scribbling down a few vignettes about the room.
Had I done this, my pen would have gushed forth ink in a […]

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Vic’s Coffee House

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Sometimes in this line of work you drink a cup of blackjo “just because.” It is not the lure of the steamy low lit den with pressed tin ceilings, or the wide open transparency of a corner shop with white walls and stripe-shirted baristi, or even the desperation of the pedestrian in the strange […]

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