Comments on: And Now Back To Our Regularly Scheduled Neighborhood News Coverage – New Petworth Coffee House Official!

By: Joel

Joel — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:43:22 +0000

Hey All, Owner of Fresh Off the Roast here. Sorry that I cannot be more forthcoming about the opening date, but I have learned not to try to estimate the pace of DC bureaucracy. Be assured that construction is moving along well and should be done within a couple of weeks. More than that I cannot say at this point.

While it is my hope to meet the needs of the community, I also aspire to build the best coffee house in and around DC,. a place to truly raise the level of coffee appreciation and understanding. That takes patience and thought and lots of input from customers. So feel free to email me with your ideas and concerns: joel@freshofftheroast.com

By: Eva G

Eva G — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:52:40 +0000

Great! Hope they have lots of seating and it is not like “Big Bear Cafe” in Bloomingdale where one would have to elbow somebody with a laptop drinking a latte over 3 hours from a chair to get a spot….

By: Oren

Oren — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:18:37 +0000

Joel’s coffee is amazing. Head-and-shoulders above counter-culture, as much as I love counter-culture. He’s got that whole building so I think eventually at least there will be enough seating for hipsters with AND without laptops!

By: e

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:00:26 +0000

well apparently the DC-centric coffee shop (ok, that makes me happy) has a blog:
http://cuppajoel.wordpress.com/
“electrical work started yesterday and plumbing starts soon.”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:46:19 +0000

As to people setting up their office in a coffee shop, I agree it’s annoying in a high traffic location like Dupont or Logan … but I think this place is enough off the beaten path (for now … in a few years the path could very well be more “beaten”) that I wouldn’t begrudge anyone who wants to support this place, even if they stay there for 4 hours.

By: Kalia

Kalia — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:41:26 +0000

Ugh, babies! Gross!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:38:32 +0000

aj, haven’t you heard? Babies are the latest hip accessory…. so you will not kill the cool.

By: aj

aj — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:26:59 +0000

This place is around the corner from my house — hooray! And don’t worry hipster haters, I plan to frequent the place with my BABY. And maybe I’ll even bring in a STROLLER. That would kill the cool faster than fratboy on a Dell in a white baseball cap.

: )

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:27:28 +0000

If coffee houses started instituting “No Excessive Laptop Use” policies, I never would have seen that godawful Diablo Cody movie.

By: Kalia

Kalia — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:48:15 +0000

wah wah someone called me out about being a tool and I don’t like it! I’m going to rant and rave about how you are insecure…meh. I’m not hipster, meh…

I didn’t call you a hipster…you all did.

And you all assumed I was talking about you. If you go there with your laptop on occassion, whatever, but if you are that dick who thinks you are special because you are sitting there for 4 hours writing your novel drinking your coffee or tea-you know who you are!!! And there are just way too many of you in every coffee house taking up one seat at a 4 top using the entire table space to yourself… GO HOME!