http://www.cafetableaux.com a compendium of coffee shop and cafe reviews, presented by the community in literary, anecdotal musings. Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:18:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As Tilt Coffeeshop was visited by two (2) Cafe Tableauxists simultaneously, we decided to post dueling tableaux, as a sort of 'He said, he said' experiment - a look at the divergent, opposing, and/or confluent views of a shared experience: j.h. trefry said: This was the first shop I had visited ... http://www.cafetableaux.com/tilt-coffeeshop/ usually a place provokes a narrative of memories, a chain of things that had happened before the tether that place to a mess of things from the past. stringing those together in a text is best left to those with more time and those named proust. koffee is ... http://www.cafetableaux.com/koffee/ Autumn, near Halloween, in a strange town, strange to me and strange somewhat in its postured image for itself, on a Friday night and saturnine day, finds kooks aplenty roaming the streets. My colleague, who was in Seattle this same weekend, remarked that he saw people with the troll ... http://www.cafetableaux.com/izzys-coffee-den/ In the Boy Scouts I was a member of the Order of the Arrow. When someone asks me what it was I tell them it was an 'elite camping squadron.' I don't quite recall what it was, but membership required participation in an 'ordeal,' which, among a vow ... http://www.cafetableaux.com/tribal-grounds/ I have roots in New England but they are that: roots (buried and distant). I sense an affinity for the region or at least some historical connection that is either received or misapplied. One thing I have never felt about the region is ownership. It takes me ... http://www.cafetableaux.com/sono-caffeine/ [photopress:manis_1.jpg,thumb,centered] Although I went to the bastard Mani's in Santa Monica within days of moving to Los Angeles and I have a more vast compendium of memories to tap into for that location, I was no less smitten with the more cozy Fairfax location. Just the name of the road ... http://www.cafetableaux.com/manis-fairfax/ [photopress:calistoga_1.jpg,thumb,centered] gray kiser has told me about a curious phenomenon he has noticed in mexico. apparently every single place of business has a single step at its front door, no ramps, no warnings, no mercy! being somewhat of an architecture buff i found it very interesting but could not ... http://www.cafetableaux.com/calistoga-roastery/ [photopress:ritual_3.jpg,thumb,centered] I am filled with preconceived notions and unfulfillable expectations. It is no place's fault that they fall short. Certainly every place is loved by someone just like every person, no matter how objectionable I might find them, usually seems to stir themselves up a mate. I like ... http://www.cafetableaux.com/ritual-coffee-roasters/ [photopress:xhedos_1.jpg,thumb,centered] I walked into Xhedos within 15 minutes of finishing my coffee at Java Hutt just up the street. I had actually parked in front of Xhedos but Hutt was the place I had referenced on the web from Portman's Renaissance Center back by the river in Detroit before heading ... http://www.cafetableaux.com/xhedos-cafe/ [photopress:verde_1.jpg,thumb,centered] Although I try my damnedest to creep the coffeeshops local to my home, it often ends up feeling like a sad chore that fits into the rote rolling through roads and places that disappear because I have seen them thousands of times, and I do not like to do that ... http://www.cafetableaux.com/cafe-verde/