philly

Kate and I headed out for some grub at our favorite Mexican spot in the city, Taqueria la Veracruzana 2 weeks ago and were walking back to Center City when we wanted a little sweet something to end the night with. As we walked through the Italian Market, I suggested Chapterhouse Cafe over at 9/Bainbridge (by the way, a MySpace page isn't the best landing page for your business – a basic webpage isn't too hard to put up and keep up, you can even link to the MySpace page for the updates!). Neither of us had ever been there and it's close by to where we've lived for the last 5 years. I'm not a coffee drinker so I don't drop into the many coffee shops around town too much. We walked into the spot, which I've walked by a hundred times, and was greeted by Jessica, the coffee shop brindled pooch. We became buddies.

Our nightcap was a big cup of hot chocolate. We were in there late so, unfortunately, they had run out of whipped cream. Oh well. The hot chocolates came out a little bit on the lukewarm side, but they were tasty.

It's a cool space inside. A row of stools facing back out to 9th St; a middle room, where we sat, with couches, tables, board games and stuff to read.

It's quiet enough to do some studying as one Temple Law school student was doing a couple tables over from us.

Here's Kate sitting in a funky hanging chair thingy outfitted with some IKEA pillows – how do I know they're IKEA? We have one of them, heh.

We settled into a game of Sorry! which neither of us had played in many moons. We just started playing without reading the (simple) directions. A few turns into the game and we realized both of us had forgotten how to play it, but we went on. I read a few of the rules as we played. Kate won the first round – which wasn't a true round since we were just making shit up while we played. I won the rematch – where we played by the rules – so I'm claiming true victory for the night!

What Yelpers have to say about Chapterhouse. Bigger pictures here.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 @ 12:30 am. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or trackback from your own site. Your comments will be moderated [if you have never previously commented] but will appear as soon as humanly possible.