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| - The coffee is good at this place, and their teas are exceptionally good too. I like a change of pace from coffee every now and then, but unfortunately Starbucks only has like 3 flavors of tea...Phoenix has many more.
Unfortunately, this place suffers from Cleveland Heights Syndrome--there's nowhere nearby to park that doesn't have a parking meter attached to it. It'd be different if there weren't cops hovering around to write a ticket as soon as the meter hits zero, but there are, and the meters are uber-annoying when one makes a random, unplanned stop here but doesn't have money for the parking meters. We don't have type of monkey business here with the coffee shops in Tremont, thank God! (With that being said, I was told after I posted this that there is indeed free street parking by the library. Thus, I pulled my review up a 1\2 star for that, and since I can't do half stars, I threw in another half star for the fact that they have free WiFi and the fact that they don't raise the prices every 15 seconds like Starbucks does. That said, most people who don't know about this fact will park in the meters and I think that it's lame that Cleveland Heights puts those meters everywhere.)
Also, this place has seating for like 10 people...yes, I am exaggerating, but the seating area is indeed quite small. This is especially problematic during periods in which the MCAT\LSAT is looming or whenever med schools\law schools are having exams and folks camp out here all day. (Side anecdote: I'll never forget going to a coffee shop at like 8AM and seeing a med student studying there, complete with a portable lamp. I went there later in the evening and saw the same student in the same exact spot! If the place was 24 hours, I wonder if she would have ever gone home or just slept there on a couch?)
I like the Phoenix on Lee a lot better--bigger seating area and the omnipresent meters are close enough that one can dash out every half hour and get the free 30 minutes!
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