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In the Marigny Triangle, just around the corner from the hip Frenchman Street club scene, you’ll find Kahve. Kahve is a low-key, friendly cafe with a real New Orleans feel.
Kahve is on the corner of Royal and Touro. They have a Victoria Arduino ‘Venus’ espresso machine that is quite the hammered-brass eye-catcher. There are a dozen or so tables in two rooms, in a miniscule courtyard, and on the sidewalk. No wi-fi, no a.c., a few pastries. You gotta want the coffee.
We stopped in before an early show at Snug Harbor. We were so close to the clubs and bustle but it felt like we were in a neighborhood spot.
They* say that kahve is what the Turks called it before it came to Europe.
*experts on the internet
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July 12, 2008 at 9:34 am
Heidi
That’s just down the street from me – I had biked & walked past a few times and wondered what was inside … and now I’ll have to check it out!!
BTW, I feel the need to report that I had a horrible cup of coffee. At the Bean Gallery on N. Carrollton at St. Peter. I was soooo disappointed – I’d stopped in there a couple weeks earlier to grab newspaper to help friends move and thought it was so cute. But when I stopped at 9:30 on a Monday morning for half-dark, half-decaf, the coffee tasted nasty. Could be the decaf had been sitting for a long time, but it’s not as though it were 4 pm. It was so bad I had to throw it away.
February 17, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Heidi
Hey, last few times I stopped in there they have Wifi – and that was wonderful right after Gustav when I still didn’t have power.