A new cafe from the owners of Le Pichet looks very promising. They want it to be more of a conversational hang out than the dinner house that they believe Le Pichet has become. Here’s an excerpt from an article:

“In Seattle, when you get together with someone and want a drink, you say, ‘I know a great bar,’ but in Paris there’s the corner spot. The place you go for coffee and croissants in the morning, a drink or light lunch in the afternoon” and a bite to eat at night. That, he says, is what they’re aiming for at Café Presse. “We’ll have one menu all day long, so if you want steak frites at 9 in the morning or at 1 a.m., you can have it.” They’ll also sell magazines and newspapers (hence the “presse”), keep menu prices modest, offer his much beloved poulet rôti (whole roast chicken for two) to eat in or take-out, and stay open from early morning till the wee hours.

He and Herron hope that customers on Capitol Hill will use their new 70-seat cafe as they would the working-class neighborhood cafes in Paris. “We want to make it a comfortable space that will have a broad appeal to a lot of people,” he says, describing an “industrial” 2,200-square-foot space whose architectural features will including open beams and skylights.

From Café Presse to bring Parisian “corner spot” to Capitol Hill

This is only a couple of blocks from the Robot Co-op office, so I’m really looking forward to this place opening up.