On an ambitious jog last night, I huffed past the intriguing space on Grand and Clifton. And… the door was open!
The inside featured exposed brick, and a giant vintagy-looking sofa covered in plastic.
So I knocked and asked the guys inside. They were just the electricians, but they said they thought the space was slated to be a coffee shop. As for the opening date, they didn’t know.
The inside space looked large, so perhaps it will be a nice complement to Choice (which offers virtually no inside seating, BUT has done a bang up job of adding more benches outside). At the rate the reno is going (1.5 years so far), it might be open in time for winter, when sitting outside at Choice might not be as appealing. I doubt they will be able to top the deliciousness that is a Choice chocolate croissant.
January 2008:
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how about the deliciousness of these nuts in your mouth
The space was vacant for awhile, but a lease was only signed earlier this year, I think. So it hasn’t been that long of a reno…
I happened to meet the wife of that building’s owner a couple of weeks ago. She said they thought the renters were putting in some sort of boutique/cafe combo, but she didn’t seem entirely certain either. She thought it was supposed to be open end of summer/early fall.
As for those drawings, she said they were done with some students for a school play somewhere, and she recycled them to replace the plain ugly butcher paper that had been covering the windows for so long.
Thanks for the post. We’ve been dying to know what this spot would become. Also interesting that the posters actually have nothing to do with the new business -too bad, they seemed a cool hint of what the space would be
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Choice sucks my balls. The coffee is horrible and most of the food does too. Too expensive, too snotty.
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