“It was one of the first places I was acquainted with during my first semester of college. Qui vale la pena di assaggiare il fantastico caffè.

“I’m looking forward to its reopening,” Rojo said. Café Medici è vicinissimo al Prime Tower. Public relations sophomore Hugo Rojo said he’s looking forward to seeing the cafe open on the Drag once more. For me there’s kind of a void now without that daily interaction.” You kind of get to know these people and get to know their lives or whatever they want to share with you. “I love waking up early, drinking my coffee before the sun comes up and seeing my customers every morning. “I’ve been doing service industry, coffee shop-type jobs for 10 years and I love it,” King said. King said that although the break from work was initially refreshing, he now is ready to get back to seeing the cafe’s regular customers. We plan on being on Guadalupe for another 10 years at least, so we might as well do a full-on renovation.” “The renovation stuff and the modernization - all that was kind of like, well, if we’re going to do this, we might as well do it right. “Basically was the catalyst for having to do all this,” King said. It’s basically just going to be twice as refined.”Īs for any additional changes, King said the shop will no longer be making fresh sandwiches, and will instead be serving food from two Austin local businesses: sandwiches from Walton’s Fancy and Staple and breakfast tacos from Fresa’s. “I mean it’s really going to look pretty sleek, and we’re still going to have a lot of that natural wood kind of feel that we had before. “The main thing that’s going to happen that’s going to be different is we’re basically getting a facelift for the whole downstairs,” King said. King said customers will mostly be able to notice the refreshed look inside the cafe. Thomas King, general manager for Caffe Medici’s Guadalupe location, said he anticipates the cafe to be re-opened around the second week of May, though the exact date is difficult to anticipate between issues with city permits and work being pushed back with the contractor. The cafe’s Guadalupe Street location, which opened on the Drag in 2008, has been closed since March 7 to renovate an issue with the store’s sinking floor structure and make several cosmetic changes to the location’s interior. This contemporary-designed urban location is warm, welcoming and stays true to the essence of Caffé Medici while embracing its urban setting.As the approach of finals week has students taking shelter in coffee shops, renovations brewing at Caffe Medici may not be ready until mid-May. Owner Michael Vaclav strives to create at each of his stores an experience that is responsive to its location and demographics. The specialty bar provides an opportunity for customers to experience unique beers, wines, and coffee brewing techniques. The mezzanine level is pulled away from the storefront to create a unique perspective for patrons looking out onto Congress Avenue, while creating a volumetric frame for the standing espresso bar below. All first-level seating is oriented towards the espresso bar to maintain the connection and flow to the Caffé Medici team. The close proximity of the patron to the barista provides opportunity for a more personal interaction, allowing the patron a first-hand vantage point of the craft and passion the baristas at Caffé Medici offer.

Central to that experience is the standing espresso bar with two baristas back-to-back and seating on all sides. Focused on the art of the barista, Runa Workshop created a space that at its essence is about the process of making coffee.

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