Profile: Cafe Tropical
By Ryan - Wednesday July 13th 2005 |
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Sure you might think it is an easy write-up but you would be wrong. The fact of the matter is that Cafe Tropical basically wins everything:
- Best Place to look at posters of El Che
- Best Place to buy a $2.25 ‘almond cigar’ consisting of a giant rolled almond dong-shaped thing, cream-filled
- Best Gigantic $1 peanut-butter cooookies
- Best Place to wish you were in the mood for fresh carrot juice
- Best Coffee In The City Of Los Angeles Hands Down – Espresso con leche
- Best Midnight Sandwich
- Best bacon egg cheese croissant
- Best place to meet up with fellow 12-steppers
- Best place to meet up with your alcoholic buddies who want to do shots next door at the silverlake lounge
- Best place to look at ‘shorty‘ – the hydrant on the corner
- Best place to tell dates to meet you early in the morning
- Best place to dump people, mid-afternoon
- Best place to gaze at silverlake blvd below you
- Best place to gaze at sunset blvd gently curving into the eastern horizon
- Best place to apparently have missed a show by matt sharp that weezer guy
- Best place to hate and abhor the skim-skin that appears on the surface of your espresso con leche, which is incidentally the best cup of coffee in the city of los angeles hands down
- Best place to buy a full guava creamcheese pie for a dinner party and have it sliced into eighths
- Best place to buy a gigantic chocolate napoleon that you have no intention of eating
- Best place to hope Dennis Farina walks in at any second, talking loudly and gesticulating
- Best place to hope Dennis Franz walks in at any second so you can pawn your chocolate napoleon, which you had no intention of eating, onto him
- Best excuse to actually be seen inside a purple stucco facade, anywhere
Aw hell I love the Cafe Tropical.
[...] In my six years of living in this fair city I estimate that I’ve driven by this decrepit peaen to verbosity between 1,000 and 10,000 times. Safe estimate. At least one thousand. No more than ten thousand. I used to live close to this place. These days I don’t, but I’m always driving by, it seems. When I’m not driving by, it’s squatting in the corner of my subconscious like a giant constipated ogre. The place is situated directly catty-corner from the the establishment I’m invaribably visiting at this intersection; namely, Cafe Tropical. [...]
[...] (I knew I liked Petra Haden. Tropical is hands-down my favorite cup of coffee in Losanjealous. Cafe Tropical: Offer nonfat milk, what’s wrong with you.) [...]
[...] Tucked away along the alley behind Cafe Tropical stands a row of 58 cigarettes. One lipstick-stained Camel stands out. As local legend goes, whosoever draws this cigarette from the concrete is the rightful King of Silverlake. See More In LA Culture | Print This Post [...]
I would NEVER go to a cafe that has “Best Place to look at posters of El Che ” WHY?
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@#4 cause its a cuban joint, most everything is cuban style.
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I used to live right near Cafe Tropical, but it was called Tropical Bakery then.
I liked it enough to write a song about it.
You can hear it and see a video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsTK8LJiQgg
or got to YouTube and search on:
“Tropical Bakery” by Mark Stacy