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Italian-Japanese at Kissa Tanto
Cozy & Intimate
Coffee and Books at Bean Around Books & Tea
Secondhand shelves, Colombian coffee from Huila, and a nonprofit backbone that makes your latte feel genuinely virtuous.
Cozy & Intimate
Secondhand shelves, Colombian coffee from Huila, and a nonprofit backbone that makes your latte feel genuinely virtuous.
Bean Around Books is the kind of cafe that hands you a date agenda the moment you walk in the door. There are shelves of secondhand books to dig through, serious coffee from Huila, Colombia, and a warm, unhurried room that practically refuses to let you leave. It's run by the nonprofit Pathfinder Youth Centre Society, which means your latte is quietly doing good in the world while you pretend to browse and actually clock what your date gravitates toward on the shelves. Fiction readers. Philosophy browsers. The person who picks up the same book twice. You learn a lot about someone in a secondhand bookshop, and the Colombian coffee is good enough to keep you there long enough to find out.
