High granite, classy, bright … it’s Saxy’s
Saxy’s is the latest entrant on the Boulder coffeeworkshop scene and is this author’s new fave. Unfortunately it didn’t take long for word to get out as all the Trident patrons have fled the dark dankness of T for Saxy’s open classiness. Within the first few weeks of Saxy’s opening you could get a table. Two days ago there were no fewer than ten laptops on the central counter and every table along the glass west wall had at least two laptops. That’s unfortunate. Damn masses.
The overwhelming early popularity is a problem for me, but what brings me back is the excellent tea selection, excellent coffee quality (compare to Vics — yuk!), and the style. What shies me away is the astronomical prices (compare to Vics — har har). Over $4 for a mocha? Are you kidding? Eight dollar sandwiches? What do you think this is, Manhattan?
Bonus: if the girls recognize you as a regular you’re only going to pay for 2/3 of your coffees.
Location: 10th Between Pearl and Spruce
Waylon Lewis said,
February 27, 2007 at 6:17 pm
Saxy’s is tacky. It’s also cute, great location etc. But as one of Boulder’s biggest cafe/wireless/laptop lifestyle addicts, I refuse to spend my dollars there. Why? It’s owned by a bunch of Vail or Aspen bored rich folk, who also started one in Frisco. I went to Saxy’s shortly after it opened, once, to check it out—I refuse to go again, as it’s on Trident turf (the old mainstay, Boulder’s first coffeehouse, has been around since 1981, when no one other than the Soprano’s knew what espresso was, or cared). We create our world through our $$$upport—and a Saxy’s world, while far, far better than $$$tarbucks, is not my kinda world. I had a $4 chai (it was Third St, a great local chai). They don’t carry organic or even hormone-free milk (conventional milk is naughtly vis a vis the planet and particularly pregnant women). They don’t carry organic muffins or scones. All that said, I wish them all success—but loyalty calls, and it calls me to the Trident or Vic’s or Pekoe or Laughing Goat—one of the local indies with deep ties to our lovely town—it’s that kind of conscious consumerism, as we call it, that makes Boulder special.
Keep up the great blog!
julie said,
March 5, 2007 at 3:37 pm
sorry to digress, but I have to take offense on behalf of the women running saxys.
“I refuse to spend my dollars there. Why? It’s owned by a bunch of Vail or Aspen bored rich folk ”
that’s not conscious consumerism, that’s having your head up your ass. wealth in and of itself is an entirely inappropriate and rude thing to use as an insult- you wouldn’t describe the workers as ‘lazy poor folk’
or is your issue that you don’t like out-of-towners? boulder is full of people who have come from different places and contribute to the economy and character of the town.
get off your high horse
Waylon Lewis said,
June 12, 2007 at 1:15 pm
Dear Julie X,
Hey, truly sorry to have offended you, and if you check out my update you’ll see the amazing stylee women of Saxy’s have converted me–I’m emailing from Saxy’s right now…my main concern is that Boulder has changed in many ways, many of them not for the better, since influx of rich folk starting in ‘87 after the SF Quake. Sure, of course rich folks can be as wonderful as anyone else–my concern was simply that Trident is not doing great, has been around forever, and is now surrounded by a dozen cafes within five minutes’s lazy stroll. When I was in Boston five ol’indie cafes and bookstores went down in as many years due to competition from Starbucks and Barnes & Noble, who moved in like a nicer version of Walmart. As I said in my first posting, Julie, Saxy’s is far better than Starbucks, and I also took pains to point out good things about Saxy’s. In any case, at least I put my full name, tried my best to say something difficult in a nice way, and didn’t just insult folks behind the veil of anonymity, Julie X.
Yours,
“Head up the Ass’ Waylon
kv said,
June 12, 2007 at 4:45 pm
the quake was 1989 but who’s counting?