The Purple Perk is a great location if you want to catch up with friends or if you want to take your date out for an after dinner coffee.
The drinks and food are good, but quite pricey. The staff is good, but kind of.... "spacey".
I would have given this place a higher review if it was easier to find a table. The place is definitely for hipsters who take their laptop with them and stay for hours, drinking only 1 coffee. The patio in the summer is cute but again, hard to find a place to sit down.
I think Calgary needs more places like Purple Perk and Higher Ground, they are always popular and will remain so.