Phoenix part 4 (fin)

fourth & final in a series of four posts

Let’s wrap up the Phoenix field report. Two cafés left to cover.

WINDOW COFFEE BAR (Melrose)

where’s Frank? Dino? Sammy? Joey Bishop?

  • from the second you pull up to the Royale complex, which houses this outlet of Window Coffee Bar, you’re awash in 60’s Vegas cool and invited to find your inner rat packer as you relax in a bright metal chair on the astroturfed courtyard
  • the café is bright and colorful, and it took a lot of willpower not to take home one of their really cool mugs
  • great coffee, teas (I went back for pictures and got a really good iced herbal tea), and pastries – another fine pop tart, this one raspberry and pear

concrete floor, check; cool art, check; light wood…….

I’ll take one of the mugs from the bottom shelf, please

pardon me, sir, do you know Angie Dickinson?

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