There seems to be a growing trend in Atlanta coffee establishments, mostly with the newbies, of posting misleading information on their webpages in regards to the hours their establishments are open (see Sweet Java Brown). This is both an offshoot and a subsymptom of a larger problem in Atlanta, that being the notion that coffeeshops should not be open into the evening. There are a couple of older more established shops that have not been reviewed here for just such a reason, although these new ones with their discrepancies have incited me to discuss the issues in their space. I believe coffee drinking, in a public forum, to be an evening activity. The ideal character of a coffee establishment being lowlit and cozy, womblike, librarylike, does not lend it to perform well as a space in daytime. I am reminded of walking by bars with their doors open in midafternoon in New Orleans or Athens, they smell wrong in the daylight and their sleaziness is aesthetically misaligned with the sun. So too with the coffeeshop. Also, most people have their free time in the evenings, that is when they choose to invest in such luxurious activities as taking a coffee. People who have the time to sit in coffeeshops in the mornings are assholes, and if you are merely popping in for a cup on your way to work you are better off drinking a press of fresh organic Ethiopian from your stove.

Seeing the closed sign on E2 in its fine bourgeois little enclave on what was very recently a harrowing stretch of Moreland Avenue only succeeded in reminding me of the continued infancy of the web using public who cannot keep their business information up to date and rearousing within me the distaste for the idle freelance parvenues who lounge outside of sterile establishments such as E2 without a care in the world. Perhaps we will happen upon it on a Saturday evening when it is actually open during the hours it perpetrates and have fodder for a more developed tableau.