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  • From: grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Ideas!
  • Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 16:15:57 -0500

The place in the 9N9 shopping center is our old friend the Jump'N'Java Cafe, which is OK if you like slightly freaked-out-looking entrepreneurial types who play nothing but whiter-than-white "swing" music all the time & always seem really worried about something. It kinda skeeves me. But they make an OK sandwich. I haven't had their coffee in a while.

The first floor of our building is actually equipped with its own pseudo-Starbucks, which involves a cafeteria employee turned loose with an ultra-automated espresso machine (has an LCD display on it & a couple of menu buttons) and a bunch of Starbucks beans. So I only have to walk down one floor & pay $2.00 for the burnt-as-shit coffee beverage of my choice. No soy milk, though.

I dig what you're saying about the positivity at Ideas! but I guess I wish the coffee gave me an actual reason to go back. I suppose I can try the regular or an espresso, but only if I'm hitting Spice & Curry or the Korean BBQ place.

I went to Lewis BBQ the other day & was reminded why I don't go there: pickles in the slaw. WTF? Also the meat is kinda goopy & the ribs sit in the sauce all day. I'm a dry-rub man, myself.

However, the honey-bun cake was even *better* than I remembered. In fact, just the memory of it has already erased the pain of the bad coffee experience.

Ross

ron thigpen wrote:
grady wrote:

OK, I get it, y'all were pulling my leg. Ha ha, very funny.


well, sorta, but not that way. (not that your stories of finicky outrage aren't a little amusing.)

i've only been in there about three times, never ordered anything iced, and certainly never ordered anything with soy in it. i did have a couple of solidly made and plenty strong, hot, espresso based beverages that were a bit slow in coming but completely met my needs.

the coffee's been fine, but the main joy in going in there, for me anyway, is taking a quick dip in the culture of stunning positivism. it's just so completely alien to what is normally going on in any kind of shop that has a frother behind the bar. and for someone of my disposition, it's a bit like visiting a foreign land, only closer.

sorry about that ride on the "Big Train". and good luck at McCafe. or you could try the Starbucks over in the lobby of the Sheraton. and if you find something better, plz share. there's a place over by 9n9. i forget the name, but you might give it a shot.

and oh yeah, the Korean BBQ is all right. i need to try their monkfish stew.

--rt

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