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This place is much bigger than I thought. The upper floor is a "quiet space" with quite a few isolated study rooms, so it's a great place to study with friends. Anticafé is like a friend's old apartment where you can drop in whenever you want, and freely dig around for snacks. The food mainly consists of toasts, cookies and chips, none of which is very appetizing to me, actually. But the teas and coffees are not bad! The furniture is comfy and eclectic, with some rooms looking like an antique shop. The bathroom upstairs have some sort of disco light, with a funny little cat figurine in the window, next to a note along the lines of: "Don't let him in! He eats all the cookies!"
The people working there are really nice and cool, and they have an efficient computerized system to track how long you stayed. We came fairly early (around 10 AM), and grabbed a nice old fashioned office desk next to an open window upstairs. The room became gradually more sunny, and more people showed up around lunchtime. We stayed for about 3h, and payed around 15$ for the whole thing. It's a bit expensive considering that we almost didn't eat anything and only a drink each, but the place is so likeable that we didn't mind. Anticafé is not just a coffeeshop and a workplace, it's also a community, with organized events such as language exchange or open mic poetry nights. They keep a weekly calendar of all events in the kitchen.
A great place to check out if you're looking for a cozy study spot around Place-des-Arts!
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