(downed: shot, english breakfast tea)

LOS ANGELES — After a filling meal at Marie Callendar’s (long story), Beck/Maggs and I decided to trot over to Eagle Rock for some Swork action as Beckster had never been there. And considering the frame of mind I’m in, coffee shops might be the place I am more than any other for a month or 500.

Swork kind of rocks. It’s near the Occidental College, so you’ve got a bunch of DS college kids kicking around, plus young parents and then the normal LA writers/drifters/etc. So I dove in to the espresso.


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Swork
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(Single Shot “X1″)
Service: Solid, quick. Served in a paper cup.
Shot: Looked fairly good. Tasted fairly good. Is acrid a taste? I’m new.
Long Story Short: Better than Starbies, but probably not ground fresh. And it probably isn’t made as well in a 100 other ways that separate the Majors from the rest. But it was pretty cheap, so hell with it.

(English Breakfast Tea)
LSS: Good.

(Play Area)
LSS: The big draw for most of the folks I chill with these days (parents) is the play area in the sunny window by the back of the shop. The employees drop enough of their 20-something attitude to make people with kids feel welcome and the toys are cool. Better yet, we ran into Michael and Hutch along with their daughter and got to catch up. So the clientele is obvs pretty slick…you might just run into someone you’ll end up being friends with for years.