Mimi's Coffee House
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Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day. Oh shut up Shakespeare, this cafe is a triumph of vibrancy, marrying eclecticism, awareness, and Afro-pride without seam. Why start with this Anglo-absurdist then? It’s much more than just my lived path coinciding with this cafe in summertime. If you must know, it’s because the process my brain went through while taking in the painted skateboard parts at the counter, the vines and hydroponic plants lining shelves and centering tables, the main window painted with unrefined flowers and butterflies along its border, laptops occupying their landing strip ran the same endurance. From the outside, it looks like a open-and-shut case: a red-brick, gabled structure, capable of small town appeal, with a highly probability of temperate prairie style. What an example of the inside defying the outside, an inside that demands that those who walk in curb their expectations, assumptions, and everything else that could reckon schismatically with the soul. There is so much more I want to say—so much more I CAN say (many were perplexed by my outward fascination with a painted tribal pitcher made of gourd up on a shelf), but here to speak is to not hear. Nothing encapsulates it all quite like the chalked blackboard: “Love changes everything, so fill the world with it.” Should only Shakespeare had come across this saying under such a lead-panel ceiling in Elizabethan times...surely with this cafe, we’d have ourselves a twice fuller world.
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Drink: Oat Cortado
I was in tears the entire way through. Saying this cortado is perfect would be the undersell of the century. Somehow the barista did some serious magic, achieving a new level of silk—silk, I say. The contrast was stunning. The temperature was the conscious of the counter-to-table that I’ve ever experienced. And, THE FLAVOR? My god, it was gorgeous. The Counter Culture Gradient was dialed in to perfection. If the drink lasted longer, I’m sure I could have savored each tasting note (dark chocolate, roasted nuts, berry), but what I’m certain of is that they were all there, blended into one beautiful coffee unit. I have no idea who runs this place or who trained them (and consequently their staff), but everyone EVERY HUMAN, should take note.
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Price: Cortado=$3.75; Oat Milk Substitution=$0.5*
*This is an inexpensive sub, I’lll have you know.