For the Columbus To Do List, I chose to participate in the coffee and tea theme. I love trying new kinds of coffee and going to new and local coffee shops/cafés. Cafés are wonderful places to study and to simply just go and relax. There are some coffee shops that even have live music from time to time. Through this project, I’m excited to find a nice, retro coffee shop that I can visit and have a place to study that’s off campus and not quite common and popular. I also can’t wait to find a coffee shop that has a unique drink that I can introduce to friends and family.
So far, I’ve visited two coffee shops: One Line Coffee and The Roosevelt Coffee House. One Line Coffee is located in the Short North. I think the Short North is a convenient location for a coffee shop, because there’s so much going on that anyone could stop in there at any time so they get an ample amount of business. I loved the general atmosphere of this shop: upbeat and vibrant. While here I got an iced mocha to drink, but unfortunately, I’ve had better. They kind of just put all the ingredients in a cup and handed it to me rather than stirring it up-I could taste the actual coffee grounds in it. If I were to go back, I’d get the drink hot instead of iced, but it’s not likely that I’ll go back, and I would not recommend this place to a friend.
I had a much better experience at The Roosevelt Coffee House. First, it’s a little further off campus, so not as many students were there, but they still had a decent number of customers. Second, along with being a coffee shop, there was a small design studio for architects upstairs. Instead of ordering an iced mocha again, I got a mocha latte. Little did I know, this coffee shop does latte art! So, I got a heart design on the foam of my latte. I really enjoyed my experience at The Roosevelt Coffee House, and I’ll definitely be going back and recommending it to others.
