A little birdie lets us know…
You probably remember that Milano moved to South Street in place of Verity Blue. The former coffee shop/furniture store space in the Main Street Market had been empty for a while. A lot of restaurant owners checked it out, but apparently the cost of installing a full kitchen was prohibitive.
As it turns out, the owners of Orzo have decided to completely rebuild the space and install their own coffee shop. You can tell that they are doing a major overhaul of the space if you look in the windows. The birdie also explained that the other part of the space was being used for a “yoga shop.” When asked about how this worked, the birdie didn’t know if it was a studio or what.
Anyone have more details?
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There will be breakfast sandwiches (I think panini, but I’m not 100% certain of that) and lunch sandwiches and wraps. Sounds like they’re going to open fairly early (7am-ish or so I think). They’re getting a bit of the space that was Verity Blue so there will be a few chairs and tables in addition to the couple Milano had. Last I heard, the yoga thing is a studio of some sort, but details weren’t ironed out yet on that.
I think your little birdie misheard slightly… I heard it was going to be a yoghurt shop… it’s a new trend from LA… apparently you just skip around in slow motion, being pro-biotic and using the bathroom regularly. I can’t wait.
a yoghurt shop
That sounds like a very cultured establishment.
HaHa…. I hear they are going to do custom yoghurts… so you can have it any whey you like.
Geee. Another non-smoking coffee-shoppe open from 10am to 5pm
with 8-dollar mochas and some sortof new-age enviro-eating twist.
whey cool.
/can’t get enough of those in this town.
you can walk down the street and get a decent cup of joe at the Blue Moon Diner. By the way are you suppose to post in every thread otterdung? Cause I just don’t have that time
@6
i think i’m posting in three of them today, after having kept mum all weekend.
/i’ll expand my coverage if you’d like.
@6
this junk sunk in.
I would argue for one or two spacious and somewhat shabby coffeeshops without alcohol, open extremely late for students and insomniac pseudo-intellectuals, that permit smoking. Blue Moon blows it for that use (though is a wonderful place) by 1) not being a coffeeshop in fact or by design; 2) serving alcohol and harboring drunkies for well or ill, 3) hosting events and bands.
the initial premise, or one of them, of coffeeshops was to provide a place for poor bohos to be other than their sh*tty squat apartments–a place with comfort and heat and company or at least surrounding humanity. same of cafes, i reckon. Just one with alcohol and the periphera of that, and one without?
Barf. Cigarettes + Coffee = Nastiest breath evar.
Shenanigans just did the math.
@9
bohos and grad-students (liberal arts, not MBAs and MEd) generally kiss bohos and grad-students
(or 19 year-old mall-rats) and not hawt fancy chicks like Shenanigans. so it rarely creates a problem.
Sinead O’Connor: “You tasted like too many cigarettes, I tasted like wine….”
An honest question: is it safe to assume that every guy, ever, who does yoga also smokes a prodigious amount of weed? non-scientific, but anecdotal–troot?
/A yoga-shoppe would probably sell kyle’s spandex outfits!!!!! BRING IT ON!!!!
@12 in my experience, yes. & has dozens of bootleg dead tapes.
@6 – yes, yes he does..
@7 – and I missed your “blatherings”, just as much as I missed you at the “verbotten to mention” show on Sunday morning. I’ll await your appearance on a FFA, so as not to incite a lathering of those “on topic”, to review results.
/1st blue!!!! (can’t help myself)
//raspberries to those who could care less, don’t care if you do or don’t
@13
/does yoga with black flag.
@15 – 5 1/2 hours later, you do comment, kudoes…what does that have to do with the dead tapes, or weed, or spandex…I haz confuz
OD, shen, flooz, orchid, stanley, 26 world, thor or oy, is anybody out there, to quote a song…
oops, left out parlie.. sorry, parlie
@13
thank you for that affirmation; score me Avalon Ballroom ‘77 if you date another of them, would you?
@14
congratulations on the BLUE.
/”…you don’t meet nice girls at coffeeshops…” –Tom Waits
@8 there was such a coffee shop on the corner of 14th and Main (or University…I forget which it is right there) on the, well, Corner (in the space that is now Boylan Heights)….open very late, allowed smoking, had many couches and chairs and english department folk in black and philosophy department folk in black turtlenecks and the occasional poetry slam and similar events. This was a handful of years ago. They didn’t do very well even being the one coffee shop that still allowed smoking because not enough people wanted to hang out in a place that reeked of cigarette smoke and spend money on coffee or other things that they sold.
@20: was that Expresso Royale?
@20, @21
Espresso Royale was cool—but it allowed smoking only on the sheltered-recessed patio and was very swanky inside. Before that there was Espresso Corner, described in @20. It wasn’t the smoking that killed it, i promise—half the shop was non-smoking anyhow. It was largely the owner’s decision to close if i recollect aright, rather than a financial necessity that it close; but that was around the time when rents on the Corner tripled and a lot of small interesting places shut down.
Before either of them there was Kafkafe (and another before Kafkafe) in the Buddha Biker spot on Eliewood. Those were both magnificent. Fire in fireplace, smoking indoors and on the patio, waitresses served you the coffee (instead of counter self-serve) and you could order a whole insulated POT not just a cup. When it became Kafkafe it introduced wine and some interesting menu-items (their warm duck salad still makes my mouth water), but lost some authenticity.
Snip to the smoking, i hear? There are 20 coffee-places in town that DON’T allow smoking. It wouldn’t hurt to have one or two that DID. Also, the 10pm to dawn crowd (if any WERE again open all night, even just during exams) tends to smoke more than the day/early-evening bunch.