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  • From: Bryk <chscene AT bryk.com>
  • To: and culture local music RTP-area <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: See you later, Percolator
  • Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:39:57 -0400

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.





  • See you later, Percolator, Bryk, 07/22/2008

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