Chronicles of an Ideal Intern
July 28th, 2009
Café Regular du Nord
In my pursuit of neighborly destinations, I decide that getting to know my immediate neighbors might be just what the neighborhood doctor ordered. I walk straight into the new coffee shop that just opened in the building also occupied by Ideal Properties. Ideal is on the corner, and this little neighbor of theirs protrudes out of the building’s Berkeley Place facade.
Café Regular du Nord is the name. I’m not so sure, from the get-go, if anything is regular about this brand new – however mignon – addition to Park Slope’s enviable list of coffee shops. And I’m not sure if regular is what they hope each one of their patrons becomes. But I presume I’m sure about “du Nord” clearly drawing the passerby’s attention to the Café Regular’s presence in Park Slope North.
Either way, Café Regular’s original incarnation (du Sud?) is on Park Slope’s Eleventh Street. Having spotted the little store, just recently vacated by Zuzu Petals, Café Regular’s owner Richard realized that the area simply needed a new café.
It seems that the café’s miniature size works to its advantage, emphasizing its comfortable feel. Adequately scaled tables and chairs, carefully grouped outside the café, lend this place an almost Mediterranean sense of ease and a definite allusion to instant joie de vivre. Ah, I just know that Ideal’s agents would love nothing more than to have enough time during this crazy rental season to sit down and enjoy their coffee, simply taking delight in letting the time slowly pass them by on this oddly memorable, baronial, tree-lined street.
Richard tells me he knew he made the right choice, because the people in the neighborhood have been nothing but super friendly. I feel totally comfortable talking with Richard and his staff and I delight in the fact that I have found it!!!! I have found the place where I am going to be a regular (pun intended). This is where I’ll be buying my morning coffee, yeay!
Jackie the Intern Over and Out
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