Boulder needs more coffee shops
I never thought I’d ever catch myself saying this, especially after starting to tally all the Boulder shops last year and stopping after we passed 40. But on a Monday afternoon, a holiday, I can’t get a seat anywhere. 2PM, random afternoon, a sunny 65F in the middle of January, and instead of hiking everybody has decided to shack up inside Boulder coffee shops?
Let this also serve as a WTF?? for Saxy’s. When it opened it was an awesome shop. Maybe because it felt manageable. Now? Of the last three times I’ve stopped by the place has been shoulder-to-shoulder with diligent MacBook slaves, all staring unblinkingly into their life-suck devices (full disclosure: I’m blogging right now from a MacBook, at a coffee shop, so there). Every seat taken, every person on a laptop. Saxy’s now wins the award for most lifeless shop atmosphere. Seriously, it feels like an Ivy League library during finals in there, and of the last three times I’ve tried, I’ve immediately walked out and found another place to drink and chill. Somehow the cognoscenti of Boulder “found” Saxy’s. Please people, unfind it. It was such a nice shop before it got taken over by the Borg. (FWIW, this was written about back in August 2007 and it’s only gotten worse.)
michelle said,
January 25, 2009 at 10:56 am
I couldn’t agree more re:Saxys. I loved that place when they opened, and it’s walkeable from my house so I’d work there a couple afternoons a week. Now… I don’t think I’ve been in there in six months.
Unfortunately, they’re packed and they’re happy so I doubt there’ll be any change until the Borg (love that term
find a new little shop to inhabit.
If I knew more about coffee I’d try to open a place myself! The market is ripe.
Another shop on the blocks « Boulder Coffee Shops blog said,
February 5, 2009 at 12:12 pm
[...] Saxy’s (but see recent post decrying the “success“) [...]
Thai Massage Boulder said,
February 28, 2009 at 3:31 pm
Have you checked out Coffee Sanctuary? Their coffee is seriously amazing, and there’s always plenty of room there. Their location is a bit awkward… in the Lotus Building on Aurora just off of the 28th St. Frontage Rd. I hope they start getting more business because I think they make the best coffee in town.
bouldercoffee said,
February 28, 2009 at 5:43 pm
no, but it’s now on our Shops Reviewed and Not page. thanks!
tourist said,
March 2, 2009 at 9:06 pm
I just had a coffee at Coffee Sanctuary also, and got onto the web to see what’s up with this place. There weren’t very many people there (like the previous poster stated) but I had the best mocha I have ever had – so much so I got online to check this place out.
osman said,
September 8, 2009 at 9:59 am
I was in Saxy’s last week and noticed that one of the power outlets on the left side of the room has been capped over. I think they’re trying to coral laptop zombies to the center island.