Coffee Cube
Did someone buy a giant wooden umbrella and build a coffee shop around it?
On the speakers: Rock Me Baby by Johnny Winter
Price of a peppermint cappuccino: £2
3 sights: People closing their eyes at the next table, an empty street, the Barista cleaning his counter.
3 sounds: Birds fighting over a piece of Biscotti, one of the guests got a text, dry leaves rustling
3 smells: Brownie mix, faint whiff of petrol, earth
3 feels: lucky, lucky, lucky to be here
Coffee Cube looks like someone’s roof fell down so they decided to prop it up again with a supporting pole and —just for the hell of it— build a coffee shop around. It really is as bizarre as it sounds. I mean, just look at it!
I thought it had to be a pop-up shop when I saw it, but it's not.
There is a peace here, that is unmatched. The shop lies down a side street that opens up to a big square. You can sit in silence, undisturbed by the busy town. And then after; just stroll back into chaos, but! Now it won't bother you at all, because you can still taste one of the best coffee cups you’ve ever had.
I actually ordered a mint cappuchino. I know, but mint is my absolute favourite flavour and this place felt like a beach bar in Hawaii, so I felt like a mojito. Then I had a cappuchino. Oh Lord… The coffee feels smooth as stroking your lips against rose petals. It spreads softness around the mouth and slides like silk down the throat. It's an experience... On the days when I need desperately to destress, or when I want to let my thoughts drift, I can still dream away on my memories of Coffee Cube. I would happily live out of a cardboard box next top them, just to be there every day. The sign outside fittingly quotes Jimmi Hendrix: “Excuse me while I kiss the sky”, and I’m not sure if maybe it was the sky who reached down and kissed me, but something happened. I fear I will never be whole until I have been back there.
Final verdict: 6 — This shop is of the elite. An absolute transcending coffee experience
