Everyone everywhere loves Southern food, and Screen Door capitalizes on this human imperative in a smart, hip way. It doesn’t look like much in its butter-colored cinderblock building. But the best soul food kitchens of the South look exactly like this on the outside (save for the large windows), and the interior goes for this same type of rustic simplicity with wooden tables, chairs of red and blue, and little on the walls. Again in Southern style, the patio is… [More]

The Pacific Northwest coffeeshop is an image burned deep in the minds of people everywhere (wherever Singles was released, anyway). It’s hard not to think of concrete floors that are strewn with papers, threadbare couches you don’t want to inspect too closely, skinny and beautiful baristas, and the sound of grinding beans and sizzling foam wands absorbed by an endless array of local art mounted on exposed brick walls.

Although Little T is more of a bakery than a coffeeshop, it… [More]