The Local Café

 

A local coffee shop that my good friend and best man Dobbs works at.

I love small coffee shops and cafés (generally excluding Starbucks, but when it’s the only thing around an exception can be made). The peaceful atmosphere & the close community despite the urban environment make for quite a nice morning or afternoon place for study, meeting, or anything really. There is only one thing about these places I don’t appreciate, coffee. I have never enjoyed a regular cup of coffee, now coffee-based drinks are a whole different story, but on coffee, I must agree with Christian Lander when he said in the first paragraph of the first post on the Stuff White People Like Blog,

 

There is no doubt that white people love coffee. Yes, it’s true that asians like iced coffee and people of all races enjoy it. But I promise you that the first person at your school to drink coffee was a white person. You could kind of tell they didn’t enjoy it, but they did it anyways until they liked it – like cigarettes.

I simply refuse to force myself to like coffee for the sake of conforming with the rest of the white people.

As a writer and one who enjoys visiting coffee shops, I was quite excited originally to see that Jason of Coffee Cup News, who I originally connected with on Twitter, was seeking reviewers for local cafés. However, to my dismay, I soon realized I would have to actually drink regular coffee to review a shop thoroughly. I’m considering to several other sites for the sake of getting my name out, such as this, as well as technology related sites like Cult of Mac (you’ll be seeing more tech-related posts on here that I’ll be using for reference). It would be particularly nice to find a prophetic site seeking contributors, but that would be a rare opportunity considering the type of examination it would take to allow someone to post writing of that nature without a personal relationship. But I digress…

I actually enjoy coffee shops so much that I am working with a few business partners, including my fiancée, on opening a coffee shop of our own with plans to expand to several states. Should be lots of fun and be quite unique = )