Kaffine is the
name of a tinny café that is tucked in the town of Evanston, surrounded by
Italian restaurants and thrift stores that is frequented by students from all
over Illinois. As you step in, you are welcomed with the smell of coffee mixed
with the grunts of customers. The warm air and the yellow lights create a place
that you only see in movies and customers that are indifferent. As you wait to
finally find a place to sit, you are distracted with the art that are on the
walls. Replicas of famous paintings of Michelangelo and De Vinci that you later
notice are uniquely crafted to make the place even more imaginative and
different. Mona Lisa is perfectly drawn holding a small cup that reads, “Kafein”
in her hands that you would not have noticed if you have not looked closely to appreciate
the place.
After sitting and
looking around you are immediately distracted by the hunched shoulders and
fingers rising over and over to push back glasses that are sliding over noses.
You are confronted with the ambitions and tournaments of unachieved dreams.
Searching eyes and lonely faces, which are looking for answers but miserably
failing. On Mondays you see the same faces performing and their poetries,
looking slightly insane driven by passion. Hipsters that are angry with the
world, that don’t want to be told what to do, smile to welcome you as you
awkwardly meet their eyes.
The menu is written
sarcastically and could be offensive to some customers but offers everything
from “everything except the kitchen sink” to “pot brownies”. Lattés are served
in huge cups, that reminds you of the cups used in the TV show “friends” and
teas are served in beer mugs and could be ordered “tea on tab”. The servers
chat you up and almost never fail to convince you to buy something you promised
yourself you wouldn’t. For a café that is almost always crowded, it is very
privet and never lets you leave without some type of idea or inspiration.
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