Abol Coffee + Food (a.k.a. Abol Cafe)

The owner is absolutely kind and generous. The food is delicious! And the coffee is superb! I had the affagato and it was the perfect treat on a hot day combined with my coffee pick me up. Phenomenal cafe and diner owned and ran by equally wonderful people.

I finished my Jebena Coffee at 2pm at the latest and I was up until 4am without a whiff of fatigue. I went grocery shopping right after, took 3 trips up 2 floors, was active all day, but lying in bed my heart wasn’t racing, I wasn’t irritable, I wasn’t even loopy due to being up at 4am, I felt normal, joyful even, and entirely amused at how i have so much tranquil energy I could probably take the English portion of the ACT at 4am years out of high school then run a lap on a track and end with a cartwheel. I cannot do cartwheels but I knew that night I could’ve. That coffee didn’t just give me wings, it gave me claws, a beak, and it opened a library of interpretive mating dances reserved only for boy birds that underwent years of reproductive evolution. And it was delicious. Rich, full, bold, pure. It was fantastic black, with sugar, with creamer, with creamer and sugar… Abol is Ethiopian coffee and after traveling to Guatemala and Colombia and drinking their special brew, Abol reminded me of the one true source. The true coffee daddy. I may be verbose but I don’t exercise it carelessly, that Jebena coffee deserved it. And while I cannot guarantee that exact experience for everyone due to infinite variations of chemical, physical, environmental, biological, and literary factors, I cannot keep this adventure to myself. Even if you fall asleep at 9pm, you would at least have tasted a fantastic cup of coffee.

There was no coffee at this fair. Then finally found one (this one). Had to go all the way to center court area. It was highway robbery. $25 for two coffees at the Saint James Court Art Show. Everyone I’ve talked to were shocked