coffee shop and cocktail bar · $$ · since 2023
Hello Darling
Plant-filled Riverfront room that pours coffee at eight and negronis at eight
A cafe until the light goes and a bar after, on the Commons Park side of Riverfront. Mornings are MiddleState coffee, Fudmill pastries and breakfast burritos from Araujos; evenings are classic cocktails on tap, negronis, manhattans, daiquiris, espresso martinis, plus charcuterie. The two halves share the same bright, plant-heavy room, so it is one of the few places downtown you can start a day and end one without moving. It worked well enough that a second location opened in West Highland in summer 2024.
Why go. A room that handles a laptop morning and a first date the same evening.
Cocktails are on tap, so the after-work pours come fast even when the room is three deep.
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