{"id":1071,"date":"2011-07-01T22:00:51","date_gmt":"2011-07-02T05:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2011-07-01T22:00:52","modified_gmt":"2011-07-02T05:00:52","slug":"caffe-romanza-books-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/01\/caffe-romanza-books-inc\/","title":{"rendered":"Caffe Romanza @ Books Inc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1072\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1072\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/booksinc-00.jpg\" alt=\"pound cake and mocha frappe at caffe romanza\" title=\"booksinc-00\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1072\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/booksinc-00.jpg 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/booksinc-00-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/booksinc-00-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite bookstore \/ cafe combinations in the whole world is Books Inc. I used to come here back when I only visited the Bay Area; I&#8217;d drive down from wherever I was staying, hang out next door for an hour in the fantastic used bookstore Bookbuyers, then wander over to inspect the new offerings at Books Inc before finishing off in the cafe upstairs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1076\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1076\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/booksinc-01.jpg\" alt=\"books inc\" title=\"booksinc-01\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1076\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/booksinc-01.jpg 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/booksinc-01-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/booksinc-01-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t just have good, sweet, frozen coffee-flavored beverages, it had a great upper seating area which was conducive to kicking back and working on a problem. I&#8217;ve written a lot of words and drawn a lot of drawings in this cafe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1075\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1075\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/booksinc-02.jpg\" alt=\"coffeehousers at work\" title=\"booksinc-02\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1075\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/booksinc-02.jpg 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/booksinc-02-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/booksinc-02-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also an art gallery lining these walls, which my wife has shown in a few times. It really makes this a fun, exciting place to hang out and eat, drink, read, and write.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1074\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1074\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/booksinc-03.jpg\" alt=\"the art gallery upstairs at books inc\" title=\"booksinc-03\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1074\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/booksinc-03.jpg 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/booksinc-03-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/booksinc-03-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But as always, the ultimate test of a coffeehouse is the ample selection of power strips in which you can plug your laptops &#8230; wait, what? Seriously, the ultimate test of a coffeehouse is the coffee &#8230; and I think Caffe Romanza passes with flying colors:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1077\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1077\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/booksinc-04-600x800.jpg\" alt=\"the mocha frappe from caffe romanza\" title=\"booksinc-04\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1077\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/booksinc-04-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/booksinc-04-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/booksinc-04.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Did I mention the Mocha Frappe? Get yourself here.<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite bookstore \/ cafe combinations in the whole world is Books Inc. I used to come here back when I only visited the Bay Area; I&#8217;d drive&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,77,76,75],"tags":[38,5],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookstores","category-coffeehouses","category-restaurants","category-reviews","tag-restaurant-review","tag-we-call-it-living","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1081,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions\/1081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}