The Thousands

There’s one born every minute. Brand new cafes with passable to great coffee/food, store bought design, a gimmick or two, a couple of beardy baristas and a line out the door on day one. But Patricia have made it their point of difference to cut out the bullshit.

Sure, the coffee is outstanding – roasted by Seven Seeds with a few cameos here and there and presided over by the company’s former frontman (proud parent of Patricia) Bowen Holden – but it only comes in one size (7oz) and two colours (black or white) with a few obvious exceptions/embellishments. And the interior is slick – perpetrated by Foolscap and Beyond the Pixels. As for food, there ain’t none but for a few morsels – pastries, donuts and the like. Nor are there any seats. Yep, ‘standing room only’, as the mosaic on the threshold states.

And while there are plenty of other things these guys are doing to keep you interested, it’s what they’re not that makes this place as refreshing as their built-in soda fountain.