If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!There are two coffee cup lids on the table before you. You have a cup of coffee and need to put a lid on it so that you can leave the cafe.
Which one do you put on your [...]
Que tal?
A local restaurant, Que Tal?, closed yesterday. Maybe the day before. Doesn’t really matter, does it? Closed is closed.
Que Tal? was on Coventry since 1995. I was finishing up a functionally useless degree (for my career, not for The World) in engineering, nearby. I would go eat there with [...]
I was lucky enough to visit the Ballantine Gastropub in “downtown” Willoughby this week. I was “lucky” because I didn’t know it existed and it was a really pleasant experience.
The Ballantine is more-or-less a pub, but it’s a fancy one. The restaurant is in the space where Johnny Mango had been, but they’ve [...]
I’ve been kind of bummed out, for complicated reasons. So a few friends offered to do something nice for me.
In the past, I’ve had a few ‘tasting’ parties. One was a scotch tasting, which was grand fun. Another was a coffee tasting, which started off OK but ended up with people sword [...]
Writing, reading email on their laptops, meeting people, reading…all things people do in a coffee house. Occasionally, they drink coffee too.
There’s been plenty written about the fact that our culture has lost our ‘commons’. From Bowling Alone to articles written by technical entrepreneurs who are creating “new” commons, it’s an issue that’s going [...]
