Monday, July 11, 2005

On Sitwells

324 Ludlow Ave, Cincinnati, 45220, (513) 281-7487, www.sitwells.net
Find a good seat and you ready to go to the world that this coffee house is trying to bring. Open up the menu and find a good local or fair traded coffee or just linger with herbal tea or jump into something more powerful such as double shots espresso, or hammerhead, a lighter double shots with houseblend.

A thin layer of curtain separated the smokey and non-smokey parts of the place that encouraged you to surf the whole audience and visitors of this place, as varies as the world could bring: a weirdo from the corner of University of Cincinnati campus with pink hair or sometimes blue, an old guy from the gaslight district at the back street, a writer that tries to find more character inspiration for his new novel or just a cute skinny girl waiting for her date.

Sitwells is a local coffee house runs by a local resident. A sign "friends don't let friends go to starbucks" can be found on the wall beyond the coffee maker, a long line of liqour bottles, and jars of coffee. The name Sitwells is taken from an English Poet, Edith Sitwells, whose books can be found in the midst of the coffee house; beware of the books around a stack of sugar (that you don't really need for the taste of good coffee), or a space near the window where it lingers around a neighborhood scrapbook that tells many stories when you browse.

Sitwells menu are varied from veggie bagel with cheese ($4.50), briemato croissant ($4.95), soup of the day ($3.95), light vegetarian snack to burrito for full meal ($6.50), and hummus and pita (%5.75).

Sitwells open 8 am to 1 am on weekdays, and 8 am to 2 am on weekends. Sitwells is large enough for group meetings, connected to the world with wi-fi, and provide a computer if you don't want to carry around your laptop. Some weeknights, if you're lucky, Sitwells hosts musicians who traveled through Cincinnati.

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