I’m surprised it didn’t happen over here sooner.” “From a social aspect, this has been going on forever in Europe.
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“We’ll have a room full of high schoolers in study groups and adults by the fireplace drinking cocktails,” says Lori Chandler, owner of Take Five Coffee + Bar in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park. The duality of concepts leads to an unusual mixture of customers. Slipstream is one of a growing number of hybrid coffee-cocktail bars across the country-from the Octane micro-chain in Atlanta and Birmingham, Alabama to Phoenix’s Lux Central and NYC’s The Randolph at Broome-where you can do shots of espresso at breakfast and come back for a Manhattan during happy hour. Instead of neatly arrayed bags of MadCap beans, there are rows of liquor bottles-a not-so-subtle clue that the coffee shop enjoys something of a double life. That is, until you notice the shelving behind the countertop. The menu features a few surprises-a house-made soda flavored with dried coffee cherries and an espresso tonic-but the place offers everything you’d expect from a craft coffeehouse.
Amble into Washington, D.C.’s Slipstream during the morning hours and you’ll be met with a small army of baristas lined up behind the dark wood bar, ready to pull an espresso or fire up the Seraphin automatic pour-over machine.
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