20041027
3rd coast/sala
a couple high school friends are in town, one to exam for a medical license and the other looking for work. i wrote this expansive e-mail on where to get touristy info, and the girl writes me back............... coz all they want is coffee.
ahahahaha! :blush:
but i recover!!! i can take them out for that too, and at a couple great city spots, too.
one is young sala cafe, just opened early this year by four friends - lotta, sabu, francis and edwin, who also writes for via times newspaper, one of two well-known tabloid format newspapers that serve filipinos in chicago. the unassuming cafe on irving park and keeler roads is a great alternative to the usual borders and starbucks frequented by loners. it has brick walls, a fireplace, a couple barstool-type tables glued to the far wall (for gazing and displaying, what else), artwork, a sofa set (of course), and great coffee.
i'm not kidding. they have this brew called "the black cat" and if you add caramel, 2 percent milk, whippped cream and some chocolate shavings, you are immediately transported to heaven. you can turn it into a latte too, it's that versatile. ahaha.
sala's always busy - you have to make reservations in advance if you want to rent out the place for events. there's a halloween costume party there this saturday that i'm still debating whether to attend, coz i hella don't do costume parties. i can go there wearing jeans and a shirt - that's costume enough! i insist.
the other cafe i can take my classmates to is storied 3rd coast cafe. i don't know much about this cafe except that my friends took me for dinner there for my birthday this year. it was where we agreed that what makes a cafe a cafe is the wood. i dunno about that, but i know the ventilators are excellent coz it let my friends smoke and me not share it. there's dinner and dessert, and bottomless coffee.
just the juice, and you can have all the cream and sugar with it, too. i can't quite place where they get their coffee, but it has its own taste as well. sometimes i doubt the freshness but that's part of the 3rd coast's charm. you walk into an old chicago landmark building in red brick, down some steps turn left and down another set of steps. newspapers scatter to your left and you choose which wooden set of table and leather chairs you'd want to sit. if it's daylight outside, sunlight seeps through tiffany stained glass windows - another chicago trademark.
the music is club techno turned down low and the lighting amber always. you can stare at your companion's face forever and since it's changing all the time as you talk in the dark, you won't get tired of it. ahaha.
which cafe should i bring my friends to - the one from chicago, or the one brought to chicago? i can't decide. i'll hafta send them this blogspot entry. it's their weeekend out, anyways.
¶ 10/27/2004 02:43:00 PM 
ahahahaha! :blush:
but i recover!!! i can take them out for that too, and at a couple great city spots, too.
one is young sala cafe, just opened early this year by four friends - lotta, sabu, francis and edwin, who also writes for via times newspaper, one of two well-known tabloid format newspapers that serve filipinos in chicago. the unassuming cafe on irving park and keeler roads is a great alternative to the usual borders and starbucks frequented by loners. it has brick walls, a fireplace, a couple barstool-type tables glued to the far wall (for gazing and displaying, what else), artwork, a sofa set (of course), and great coffee.
i'm not kidding. they have this brew called "the black cat" and if you add caramel, 2 percent milk, whippped cream and some chocolate shavings, you are immediately transported to heaven. you can turn it into a latte too, it's that versatile. ahaha.
sala's always busy - you have to make reservations in advance if you want to rent out the place for events. there's a halloween costume party there this saturday that i'm still debating whether to attend, coz i hella don't do costume parties. i can go there wearing jeans and a shirt - that's costume enough! i insist.
the other cafe i can take my classmates to is storied 3rd coast cafe. i don't know much about this cafe except that my friends took me for dinner there for my birthday this year. it was where we agreed that what makes a cafe a cafe is the wood. i dunno about that, but i know the ventilators are excellent coz it let my friends smoke and me not share it. there's dinner and dessert, and bottomless coffee.
just the juice, and you can have all the cream and sugar with it, too. i can't quite place where they get their coffee, but it has its own taste as well. sometimes i doubt the freshness but that's part of the 3rd coast's charm. you walk into an old chicago landmark building in red brick, down some steps turn left and down another set of steps. newspapers scatter to your left and you choose which wooden set of table and leather chairs you'd want to sit. if it's daylight outside, sunlight seeps through tiffany stained glass windows - another chicago trademark.
the music is club techno turned down low and the lighting amber always. you can stare at your companion's face forever and since it's changing all the time as you talk in the dark, you won't get tired of it. ahaha.
which cafe should i bring my friends to - the one from chicago, or the one brought to chicago? i can't decide. i'll hafta send them this blogspot entry. it's their weeekend out, anyways.
¶ 10/27/2004 02:43:00 PM
