Notes from the Looking Glass

I am updating from Carrboro's infamous Looking Glass Cafe, the coffee shop-cum-head shop that is in perilous proximity to an elementary school. The N&O describes the panic, fear, outrage, etc. that has erupted among residents who have kids at the school. Also worth noting that Carrboro's previous head shop was busted for being a drug front.

WELL.


My friend ordered a hot chocolate, and specified which type of milk she'd like. The barista dude was all, "right on." Until he started making the drink, and realized, "oh, uh, we don't have any way to heat up milk, actually. We just make it with hot water."

That's right. NO ESPRESSO MACHINE. And nary a milk-frother.

Also on the menu, paninis--"deli meat and cheese." Thrilling copy, I tell you.

Plus you can get cereal. Like just a bowl of cheerios, man.

the half-assery is telling. i mean, no one really intends to sell a sandwich called "deli meat and cheese," do they?

My friend who works in Carrboro at a graphic design house reports, "my boss went in there after it had been open for TWO WEEKS to get some food. They had four dates up for grabs. FOUR...DATES.... that's it. All the food in the whole joint."

Y'ALL I THINK THIS PLACE IS A FRONT.

(be that as it may, i still think this is an OK place to go for a cheap cup of coffee and abundant seating. sometimes you just don't feel like fighting open eye hipsters for the last available seat, then tiptoeing around studiers, twisting this way and that, invading someone's personal space and mumbling apologies about having to plug in your laptop, only to sit down and realize you can't even seen your screen because the sun is setting in a blaze of glory, turning the cafe's westward facing windows into giant blinding flares.)