True West Coffee

oh happy day!

A morning adventure for the best.bacon.ever at Allen's Market in Hamilton led us here. As promised in their logo, Oh happy day indeed!  True West Coffee has two locations in Hamilton; a shop in the business district of downtown Hamilton as well as a coffee house deeper into downtown.  We went to the coffee house.

Eclectic and wonderful, there are fabric banners streaming from the ceiling, brightly painted walls, excellent indie artwork and great seating!  Huge tables for large parties or smaller tables for more intimate chatter.

Also . . . 

A yellow leather couch in front of a fireplace, next to a shelf full of books and games!!!  Heavenly, if I do say so myself!!

We ordered our coffees (Joey had an Americano; I had a dirty Chai) and I ordered food from this awesome sauce menu:

(Before I go any farther in my musings of True West Coffee, let me stop right here and explain a few things.  While I do love-love-love a great coffee or tea, for me, it is all about the experience and the atmosphere.  Joey and I have been to many coffee tastings and know our fair share of pour-over methods and coffee brew times.  We've had roasted coffee so freshly roasted, it was roasted the same day we drank it and we've had coffee so old we drank it anyway . . . . . . . . . believe me, we know coffee.  If you want and/or expect the technicalities of this coffee experience, you won't get that from my postings!!!  I'm seriously alllllll about the quirky things that keep me amused daily!)

So, without further ado .....  I ordered the Chuck Norris. We took our drinks upstairs . . . .

..... and I waited for my sandwich.

Upstairs was loverly!!!  Beautiful sunshine pouring through the windows!  The handpainted floor invited me to walk over to the red velvet couch to drink my tea in laziness.  And I love the chandelier.  Do you see it?  There were several chandeliers, all of them different!!

We ultimately sat in a sunny window spot on yellow velvet chairs and my sandwich was brought to me on a real china plate!!  Joey and I shared the sandwich, because it was huge and because we, well, share our sandwiches with each other!!  Chuck Norris did not disappoint me.  The man and the sandwich.

 

We enjoyed the sunshine, the food, the coffee, the conversation.  It was really a very lovely place to spend an hour or so chatting with my bestest.  

A bit of a drive because of the stop-and-go of downtown Hamilton traffic, and the parking is a bit crummy (although there IS parking in the back of the building; you have to finagle getting in and out), but it's sooooo worth going to . . . . . go and be kind to yourself: lay on a red velvet couch or a yellow leather couch, enjoy a cup of coffee and read a book for a few hours!