Independent Coffee Shop in Wicker Park?

OK, we are living around North & Damen and I'm eagerly searching for an independent coffee shop with high quality espresso. Must be walkable and ideally with wifi for me to avoid work

Try Caffe de Luca first, unless you already have.

gleam wrote:Try Caffe de Luca first, unless you already have.

jpschust,

If Caffe de Luca works for you, and you need another reason besides wifi to avoid work, there's also a branch of the Public Square's Cafe Society that meets at CdL on Thursday evenings. Since I moved out of Logan Square, I haven't been able to attend, but it's a great group of people who gather to discuss current events/issues in the news. At one of the most memorable meetings for me, Stanley Fish was the facilitator. I used to head over right after work and eat dinner during the discussion.

try Filter right near the six point intersection.

Filter closed a week or two ago.

Yep - Filter closed to make way for a Bank Of America location.

Pete wrote:Yep - Filter closed to make way for a Bank Of America location.

yay in that i have a bank of america account boo because i need coffee more than money. though money buys coffee...hrm chicken or egg?

Homer: Aww, twenty dollars. I wanted a peanut.
Brain: Twenty dollars can buy many peanuts.
Homer: Explain how.
Brain: Money can be exchanged for goods and services.

The very title of this thread, never mind the actual discussion, is total proof Wicker Park is no longer cool.

Marco wrote:The very title of this thread, never mind the actual discussion, is total proof Wicker Park is no longer cool.

I'm getting really sick of this dumb hipster argument. It's elitist and rediculous.

Marco wrote:The very title of this thread, never mind the actual discussion, is total proof Wicker Park is no longer cool.

Wicker Park stopped being cool when you found out about it.

Ive lived here off and on for 12 years, its still cool. Anyway,
Alliance Bakery & Cafe
1736 W. Division St.
773-278-0366

BlackWater Cafe
1741 N. Western Ave.
773-227-4126


Gallery Cafe
1760 W. North Ave.
773-252-8228

Earwax
1561 N. Milwaukee Ave.
773-772-4019

I can't believe Leticia's isn't named in this thread. They are more on the sweets and savories side, but they do serve coffee and tea as well (and I was a customer when there wasn't the wine bar part of the place!)

Anyway --

Leticia's Natural Bakery
2144 W Division

ChiTownAbs wrote:

Marco wrote:The very title of this thread, never mind the actual discussion, is total proof Wicker Park is no longer cool.

Wicker Park stopped being cool when you found out about it.

I found out about it in 1986 when one could still get a stool at the Busy Bee. *That* was a cool, indie coffee shop with cool kielbasa.

When that closed, and all the corporate places opened, and the gentrification became so ruthless---McMansions utterly displacing the locals block by blocks, then yes, Wicker Park became that UNCOOL. I would date this sometime between the film releases Singles and Reality Bites---both notorious for Tobacco Company product placement. And so there became nothing more annoying to me than dealing with booger-nosed wannabe GenX poseurs smoking in all the eating houses of WP and Bucktown and UK Village. So, let's say, since 1993, I've felt less and less reason to spend time or money there. I find it much worse than even Lincoln Park: It *is* Lincoln Park for the Winona Ryder generation. Why can't those defending it admit it? Or name ONE irreplaceable place in the area?

Neighborhoods change. That's life in the big city.