Tonight's First Friday theme is "Positive Vibrations", featuring sounds of the Caribbean. Main act in Clearview Commons is The Flow Band. Other acts and entertainment will be up and down Washington Road.
We'll be open until 9pm tonight. No entertainment here, but feel free to duck in for coffee, dessert and some air conditioning.
This afternoon, as we were the recipients of a lot of coffee leftover from last week's Sprodown, we're sharing our bounty and doing something that we hope might make some converts to a more continental lifestyle - FREE ESPRESSO.
From noon to five today, during the Frank & Rich shift, we'll have three different espressos on bar. We - will be serving FREE doubles for consumption in ceramic demitasse in the store.
If you're not yet a straight espresso drinker, here's a low risk way to start becoming one - doesn't cost you a thing. If you are an espresso drinker, well... you'll want to be here this afternoon.
The espressos:
- Black Cat Blend, our house espresso, which at the moment is coming across with a nice cherry-vanilla punch from the Bolivia Anjilinaka beans that replaced the Rwandan used this spring.
- George Howell's Terroir Kenya Chania, a single origin roast from Kenya's Thika region loaded with berries and spice. It's rare to find a Kenyan that works as a single origin - this one does and it is very different than what's usually found around town.
- Verve's Streetlevel blend, which is comprised of five different coffees, and a set of instructions that's quite out of the ordinary regarding dose and shot times. We'll be breaking out our largest baskets and our naked portafilter for this one. It has a nickname of "the facemelter". We're hoping to do it justice.
We had originally posted that we'd be doing this until 6pm. That's because we forgot it was First Friday - our apologies. We'll try to extend this offer as long as we can, but we have to put things back together for the late crew well before 6pm so they can bang out the lattes and frappes tonight.
Rich! Clara and I are working from 12-5 today!
Posted by: Lauren | July 03, 2009 at 10:14 AM