Daily Grind

Warm coffee. It's a wonderful smell, and The Daily Grind has it in spades. After a while, all coffee shops like this start to blend together. Menu with specials, check. Counter with coffee machines, baked goods, and a cash register, check.

Cozy interior? Accomplished with leaving the brick walls unpainted. Art from local artists on the walls? Check and check, for paintings and photography both. A little raised area that can be cleared to be used as a stage? Yup. Tables, chairs, some comfy sofas and armchairs that take some spills but are not too stained, yes, yes, yes, and yes. Staff wear aprons in solid colours, but are otherwise dressed normally.

The music is good, at least. From a panoply of genres, some of it is old, some of it is new. Not 'never Top 40', if only because a really good song that happens to be very popular sometimes makes the playlists.