Coffee-shopping, part deux!
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Today is the day for Flour Bakery + Cafe! Let me tell you of this wondrous place. (sidenote: why does the word wondrous not have an e? like - wonderous?)
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Flour is about an hour walk from Mission Hill, right across the MIT bridge on Mass Ave, with the closest T-stop being Central. It contains the wonders of free wifi, acceptance of credit cards, and … wait for it … endless free coffee refills!
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I love this establishment for the feeling I get when I think about how great it must be to work here. Flour is a combination bakery/cafe, meaning they make everything here, fresh. Glorious, fresh real food! Cupcakes and pastries and sandwich bread to die for. All of the food is light and happy and glowing with community-made joy! I had a curried tuna samich with raisins and carrots and tomatoes. Mmm.
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The place feels open and part of the community. Everyone working here seems to be a happily employed tattooed twenty-something. I love it when the folks working a cafe seem like it’s exactly what they’d like to be doing. They have new pastry things everyday and are happy to recommend something to you. It’s the kind of place I’d love to work. They’ll even give you recipe cards for their baked goods.
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The walls are all black chalkboard paint, decorated with the menus written write on them. It’s one of those places that makes me think of the color blue, without anything in here actually being blue. I offer no better explanation for this.
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The whole front is a long window with bar seating and long, shared tables. It’s open in the way a good deli sandwich place is, busy and full of noise and folks, but no-one seems disgruntled or angry about the chaos. It’s a friendly kind of chaos, to be sure.
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You sit with everyone and feel like part of the neighborhood. Everyone’s here - the MIT students, the professionals, the hipsters, the middle-aged folks, everyone. Come on in and join us and drink all the coffee you can stand.
