Comments on: Cafe Roma

By: LK

LK — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 21:02:26 +0000

I love Cafe Roma, too, and Tail of the Yak! I am sure we must be criss-crossing paths, BlogLily!

By: Nancy Ruth

Nancy Ruth — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 10:17:33 +0000

Small pleasures. Why are they so especially wonderful? But they are and you put it well.

By: Danielle

Danielle — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 02:37:42 +0000

I love coffee shops, but I am not a coffee drinker–as weird as that sounds. I love the way it smells, but it never seems to live up to my expectations (unless of course we are talking cappucino…now that is another story). Now that photo looks quite yummy!

By: (un)relaxeddad

(un)relaxeddad — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 09:14:08 +0000

That is NOT FAIR! I’ve survived two days of my latest attempt to kick caffeine (well, in coffee, anyway. You part me from my green tea at the expense of some very crucial body parts) and you come along with this beautiful, rhapsodic post to the admitted perfection that is a properly made latte and NOW I WANT ONE!!!!

By: Polaris

Polaris — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 06:44:32 +0000

That is a wickedly cool looking chocolate drawing. You seem to have excellent taste in coffee shops, judging by this picture and that funny post about the coffee shop in Bodega that could ….excrete…. a better president . I just can’t get that line out of my mind!

By: Ella C.

Ella C. — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 04:10:03 +0000

On Saturday I went to a cafe on Dolores and 26th, 2 blocks away from our house, with Owen, who is 11. We sat on a couch there and read. Then Owen solved a Rubik’s cube (I taught him). They also have a bookshelf with used books for sale. I bought four books for $16. No smiley-face in my latté, though…

By: bloglily

bloglily — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 22:55:19 +0000

Hello Tai — and welcome — that sounds like a great place. Alameda is so far outside any of my ordinary routes that it really does seem like a mythical place. (Except for the flea market, come to think of it! And soccer! So I could go check out Julie’s some Saturday after I drop people off for a game. It sounds lovely.)

dear Litlove, not nice indeed. I’m glad you’ve bulked him up.

SW — It is relaxing and although the smiley and the rose are silly, they are sweet too.

Ruth, I’m trying to think of a couplet that has the words sleep and doze in them, but can’t becaues I haven’t had enough caffeine today.

Dear Ann, If you build it, I’m sure all of Birmingham will come. xo

By: Tai

Tai — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 22:16:11 +0000

Here in my corner of Oakland, which is not too far from your corner of Oakland, I cannot pry my beloved out of Peets. (Is it a boy thing?) I quite like Cafe Roma, although my current favorite cafe is located on the mythical island of Alameda: Julie’s Coffee & Tea Garden. Its best feature? Complete absence of cyclists (it’s an island, no hills!).

By: litlove

litlove — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 19:48:10 +0000

I just adore that picture. Anyone who paints faces in my foam gets my vote every time. I did laugh at your banana men. When I first met my husband, as a skinny lightweight rower, he was the only person I had ever met on whom lycra bagged and wrinkled. Not nice!

By: strugglingwriter

strugglingwriter — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:25:26 +0000

Sounds like a nice, relaxing place. It’s funny how something so simple as a smiley face can add to something good to make it even better (for me at least)

By: realruth

realruth — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:05:48 +0000

How could you bear to drink it up?
It looks so lovely in the cup.

By: Ann

Ann — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 08:39:19 +0000

Oh BL, I know just what you mean. You would think that in a city the size of Birmingham there would be dozens of placs where you could not only get a decent cup of tea, but also know that you could sit and enjoy a quiet read as well. Thinking quickly, I can come up with four and I have at least a twenty minute drive to get to any of them. And yet there is nothing more sublime. Maybe you’ve just pointed my way to a new career direction!

By: bloglily

bloglily — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 05:06:33 +0000

Oh HMH, You make me laugh! Indeed, were I to live in the hinterlands (a fantasy I often indulge in) I would never complain again. In fact, I do love the banana men and their happy post-Sunday morning ride excitement and all the milling about, at least in principle. But my own house is such a rowdy place, you see, that what I long for is the opposite of all that noise and bustle. Hence my fantasy about living where you do. Perhaps we should trade!

By: healingmagichands

healingmagichands — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 04:42:02 +0000

Oh, if only there was someplace in this town where I could get a latte of any sort at all. If you were forced to live in the hinterlands where the possibility of getting a latte with or without a smile or flower meant you had to drive a minimum of 45 miles, you would probably not complain about a few banana-like cyclists or children milling about.

Thanks for the link to the beautiful picture of the latte in the green cup. Maybe I could learn to foam milk: we do have an espresso maker.

By: bloglily

bloglily — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 04:13:41 +0000

exactly. I really couldn’t have put it better myself, Mr. S. xo