If you want Starbucks, but don't want to feed the greedy corporate monster, come here.
I think the owner wanted to feel very at home here, and it shows.
There's absolutely nothing 'hip' about it, but that's okay.
Picture the characters of 'Friends' drinking at Central perk twenty years after they met, and this is essentially a mug's (also super-impose a Harris Teeter in this image, as well).