Champion Coffee: Taking Greenpoint by Storm TOMORROW

Some of you may recall my profound sadness at the shuttering of TEN63, the cafe with the best coffee in the world and also the very very good and kind baristas (so good and kind, in fact, that they befriended N and me, even after we'd accidentally walked out without paying on more than one occasion)(we always came back, but still). Anyhow, that was six months ago. I still find myself wistful whenever I smell really great coffee, which is not often, I might add.*

Anyhow. It is with great pleasure, then, that I announce the opening of Champion Coffee in Greenpoint, TOMORROW, Tuesday, May 23, brought to you by the same minds and coffee-ground-stained hands as what brought yis TEN63. Boasting both indoor and outdoor seating and WiFi, this small-but-perfectly- formed cafe features the signature coffee and tea beverages, egg sandwiches, a variety of really delicious baked goods, and of course Talitha's famous homemade granola.

This might sound like I'm shilling for Champion, but make no mistake: I am speaking with the zeal of the evangelicals because this, friends, fills the TEN63-sized hole in my heart**. The day of caffeinated reckoning has come, friends. BE THERE BE THERE BE THERE tomorrow and witness for yourself.

Champion Coffee
1108 Manhattan Ave., between Dupont and Clay
Greenpoint
Open 7 to 7, 7 days a week

*Although there is a new cafe on Mercer just down the street from my office and they have pretty good coffee. Only one of the baristas is TEN63-quality good and kind, however.

**I bet you thought I was gonna say vagina, didn't you.