ReadingFree
Slow Sunday Reads
No agenda. No presenter. Bring a book you've been meaning to finish. We open the terrace, keep the music low, and let the morning go at its own pace. Coffee is on us for the first hour.
April 5 · 10:00 AM
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This Week’s Picks
Four spots worth leaving the house for.
Today’s Picks
Our Pick for Your Next Read
Four books worth carrying into the city.
The Midnight Library
Matt Haig
For when you need to believe in second chances.
Between life and death there is a library. Its books give you the chance to try another life you could have lived. Nora Seed must ask herself: what makes a life worth living?
DreamyDeep Focus
Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami
For when the city feels too loud and you need to go somewhere else entirely.
Tokyo, 1987. Toru Watanabe looks back on his years as a student and his romantic entanglements with two very different women. Murakami at his most intimate and aching.
DreamyInvisible
A Room with a View
E.M. Forster
For when you want to feel alive and slightly reckless.
Lucy Honeychurch travels to Florence and finds her carefully ordered world disrupted by a man who insists on feeling everything. A novel about the courage it takes to live honestly.
CuriousOpen
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
For when you want to sit very still and feel everything quietly.
An aging English butler reflects on his decades of service and the choices — professional and personal — that defined his life. Ishiguro at his most precise and devastating.
CozyInvisible
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Book ClubFree with book purchase
Book Club — Stoner
We're reading John Williams' quiet masterpiece about a man who loves literature and almost nothing else goes right. Come ready to disagree about whether William Stoner is a failure or a saint.
April 10 · 7:00 PM
Tasting$22
Coffee Origins Tasting
Our head barista Mia walks you through four single-origins side by side — Ethiopia, Colombia, Honduras, and our current guest roast. You'll never order blind again.
April 17 · 6:30 PM