New coffee bar

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041220/od_nm/pope_bar_dc

Anybody think this was a preemptive move to keep Starbucks out?

Strange that they opened it and no one knew it was there. I guess it isn’t there to make any money? Be a cool place to sit and have a cup of joe though. I like Starbucks but it has become a bit of a McDonalds in that you can’t go anywhere with out one. I travel to Durango for work sometimes and they still have 3 or 4 independent coffee shops on mainstreet there and it is a nice change.