Establishment: Caffe Luxxe.
Location: Montana Avenue, Santa Monica.
Date: Sunday, November 15, 2009.
Time: 3 pm-ish.
Beverage(s) consumed: Latte (2%).
Price: $3.75 + $1.00 tip (unacknowledged [paid w/ a fiver and a quarter felt too little.])
Service: Efficient and polite, if a bit cool.
Review: Smooth, rich, maybe a bit nutty on the coffee back end, maybe a bit too milky; overall, very good and well above average.
Latte art: Rosetta pattern. (B+ – good for a latte, lines could have been a bit tighter.)
Crowd: Full house. Well-dressed business dudes talking excitably in Italian. Mandatory unshaven writer type guy staring at Macbook Pro front and center. Possible grad student with a bunch of academic type books against the wall. Couple gay dudes at the counter stools.
Overall visit score: 7.6/10.0
As it turns out most people just want coffee, without a side of smaller coffee. Prime square footage on Western, spitting distance from both the Wiltern and the city’s kookiest KFC. Still available at press time! What should the next business call itself? Choose from the list below or throw your choice into the comments…
- Coffee & Coffee (& Coffee)
- Coffee & Coffee & Coffee & Coffee
- Coffee & Coffee & Coffee & Coffee, & Coffee & Coffee
- Coffee & Coffee & Coffee & Coffee & Coffee & Coffee & Coffee & Coffee & Coffee & Coffee & Coffee & Coffee & Coffee & Coffee & Coffee & Coffee & Coffee & Coffee & Coffee & Coffee & Coffee & Coffee & Coffee & Coffee & Coffee & Coffee & Coffee & Coffee & Coffee & Coffee & Coffee & Coffee & Coffee
- Just Fucking Coffee
- Sears
- AutoZone
- 1 and 2
- 1, 2 and 3
- All of the above
- None of the above
LOSANJEALOUS (Losanjealous):: King’s Road Cafe (8361 Beverly Blvd) has raised the price of its signature house cup of coffee – arguably the best in the city – from $2 per cup to an astonishing $2.25 per cup. The unprecedented rise in rate is precisely the same amount you might have spent avoiding a ticket from the parking enforcement creeps hanging like so many vultures above the inadequately sparse meters surrounding the establishment; plan accordingly.
