March 2009
14 posts
Open Eye Coffee, Carborro 3.5.09
Final stop to full caffeination in order to complete this project ( i seriously may not sleep tonight). In the heart of Carrboro lies one of the hippest joints, Open Eye Cafe. Dozens of kids clad with skinny jeans, Mac books and buffalo-check pashminas who look very seriously (yet artistically aloof) through their horn-rimmed glasses can order from a variety of Carrboro Coffee Company roasts at...
3 Cups, Chapel Hill 3.4.09
Project completion is drawing near, but there are a few corners of the Triangle I have not yet explored. Tonight, I ventured to 3 Cups, off of Franklin St in Chapel Hill. 3 Cups is a coffee house/winery. They sell Counter Culture Coffee products and offer a selection of wines that abide by similar philosophies as their beans: Fair Trade, Organics, High Quality.
Another fun aspect of 3 Cups is...
Cup-a-Joe, Raleigh
A few weekends back, my friend Nick moved to town. After a morning of unpacking and returning his moving van, we headed to Hillsborough St in Raleigh, where the ‘cool kids’ come to hang out, at Cup-a-Joe.
This remains one of the last smoker-friendly cafes in this area. On that side of the cafe, a cloud hangs over 20-somethings and a table of gamers who puff and sip to their hearts...