The Scene
When you walk in the door, you're greeted with a display of enormous cakes, desserts, muffins and pastries practically too pretty to eat; the brownies have actually been declared "too chocolatey," of all things. The comfortable, overwhelmingly hunter-green decor includes both table seating and cozy wing chairs and upholstered furniture around a fireplace decorated with the queerest green stone ... where's that quarry? Staff members (refreshingly) treat kids just as well as adult patrons.
The Joe
Coffee in all its variations is well made and reasonably priced, as are the desserts. The extended menu includes light sandwiches (about $6.50 each) and salads; breakfast sandwiches are available, and infinitely better than what you'd get at a certain drive-through across the street.
The Crowd
Although the Muzak and décor is on the hoity-toity side, the patrons are not. You can expect to meet (or at least sit near) pleasant, down-to-earth people of all ages and incomes. There are no coffee snobs here.