See you later, Percolator
Bryk
chscene at bryk.com
Tue Jul 22 11:39:57 EDT 2008
This might be old news, but this morning I stopped at the Percolator
coffee shop in North Raleigh only to find it closed, with a note
saying their lease expired and they were selling their contents (which
I could see displayed on tables in the front window.)
I heard it through the grapevine that the landlord had already leased
the adjacent former Fallon's Flowers location to Long Beach meta-
Starbucks franchise "It's a Grind".... and the locally-owned and
operated Percolator was shown the door post-haste. The Percolator was
one place in NR where you could get a decent espresso (and a bag of
Cup a Joe beans to go) and it will be sorely missed. They had
community meeting space in the back for rollergrrl meetups, deaf
singles, etc., and most importantly their (covered) patio was also dog-
friendly.
If the above lease termination situation happens to be true, here's to
a karmic dump of used Exxon-station-calibre robusta on said landlord's
fleet of Lexi.
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