I have to admit that sometimes I get tired of writing about coffee houses. I suppose this is because I've been writing Double Shot Buzz columns for twenty years now, and so many coffee houses are -- to put it bluntly -- not that much different from other coffee houses. This was pretty much the same reason why I stopped writing music reviews years ago for a monthly Long Beach paper, back when the music scene was huge and I was attending several gigs a week. Some bands were very bad and some were very good and exciting; but probably the middle 80% all sounded like each other. What was there really to say about them? So I quit and started playing in my own band. I mean, I still drink coffee and have no plans to start my own coffee house, but I've been feeling a bit stale lately in my reviews. This is why I was pretty excited when I read about a Vietnamese coffee house that has just opened in Broomhill. I was even more interested after I learned it had great coffee, and after both my vegetarian friend Mike and my carnivorous friend Scott both gave their rave reviews on both the coffee and the báhn mì sandwiches. I don't go out to eat very often these days, mostly because I can't afford it; but I decided I simply had to splurge for once. | ![]() |