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Friday, January 25, 2008

Awaken Cafe in the Tribune!

The Awaken Cafe was featured in a great article by Angela Woodall in today's Tribune:

"Downtown Oakland shines a little brighter with new venues:
Atmosphere improving in area west of City Hall"

Pick up a copy of the paper or check it out online and let us know what you think!

Labels: city of oakland, media, spread the word

Thursday, January 24, 2008

YouTube Videos: Latte Art

Bay Area Coffee in the NY Times

There's a great article about our friends at Blue Bottle in the New York Times. It's all about Blue Bottle's new siphon bar and another high end brew machine called Clover.

Labels: coffee, community, world-class

Monday, January 21, 2008

We've Got Our Espresso Machine

We recently purchased a three month old La Marzocco Linea, 3-Group, Semi-Automatic Espresso Machine and Mazzer Grinders. They're great machines and we got a good deal! We'll be pulling shots soon enough!

Labels: coffee, world-class

First Entry Way Mosaic Complete

Is this incredible or what? Three cheers to Aryana Farsai, our incredible mosaic artist!

Labels: arts, build-out, community, salvage

Framing, Plumbing & Electrical Rough-in Complete

We've completed all the framing, rough-in plumbing, and rough-in electrical for Phase One. Tomorrow the City of Oakland comes to sign off on the plumbing and then we can finish closing in all the walls with sheetrock. The facade is also nearing completion! We're so close, I can smell the coffee!

Labels: build-out

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Jack London Square Graffiti

Saw this downtown last night. Someone is doing gorilla marketing for us. They forgot the "N".

Labels: city of oakland, spread the word

"Awaiting Awaken Cafe"

A cool blog about Oakland called "Living in the O" has a post about us. Check it out!

Labels: media, www

Thursday, January 3, 2008

More Framing for Phase One