Review by cafe tableaux: it’s too much like someone just wanted to have a little cafe, and went to home depot to pick up whatever…

Review by cafe tableaux: , golems, Arvo Part, wainscotting

Review by cafe tableaux: I don’t feel the need to support a cafe that displays the Drudge Manifesto as its most important book.

Review by cafe tableaux: The location of Earth Cup is pretty cool; it is a tiny box sort of tucked between a castle and what we like to call the “Los Angeles Block”. A few tables and a deck hollowed out of a tree-lined residential street, it is situated as more of a neighborhood spot than say, Satellite or Green Line.

Review by cafe tableaux: you arrive in time to see the coke-bottled tweaker in blue descending walnut hill, with a five gallon bucket tucked under each arm.

Review by cafe tableaux: Grindcore House is truly an awesome place that serves its neighborhood by providing more than just coffee and treats

Review by cafe tableaux: Adjacent to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and surrounded by middling offices

Review by cafe tableaux: the alpha and omega of West Philadelphia coffee.

Review by cafe tableaux: Why am I out in public? Superb question! It seems a fabulous idea until I am entrenched in a foreign armchair or couch.

Review by cafe tableaux: Will you escape the stifling bounds of this ville? Or will you toil in its confines, with every day ending as the day before…

Review by cafe tableaux: For years I have sought such a marriage—cafe and library—the way the mythologized, Arthurian knight sought the metaphorical Grail.

Review from cafe tableaux: It would be nice to meet up with Susie and Joan, post-workout, for a decaf white chocolate raspberry double cappuccino

Review by cafe tableaux: they maintain a calendar alerting you to upcoming coffees-of-the-day such as Zimbabwe AA or Sumatra Gayo Mountain.

Review by cafe tableaux: Thank you! Say Hi next time, I’m not all that mean, really.

Review by cafe tableaux: Punks eating vegan treats, ‘bike shop’ bagels, and kale smoothies. Bring your own mug for a random discount.

Review by cafe tableaux: Stellar is prone to closing without warning and opening without regard to the hours posted on the door.

Review by cafe tableaux: when i write the tableau, it will start with, “case study number two in why fairmount cannot sustain a decent coffeeshop.”

Review by cafe tableaux: being an independent business does not absolve one from criticism; if you are going to engage in a practice that puts off customers, be prepared to face critique

Review by cafe tableaux: The paper cups of coffee in which soymilk consistently clotted were certainly not the draw, nor was the erratic service.

Review by cafe tableaux: few options for locking bicycles, other than to shackle one’s wheels to a nearby, trash-strewn staircase or toss said bike over the bridge…