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| - An ode to my favorite coffee shop from my undergrad days at UW-Madison.
I used to live in a hole in the wall across the street from this coffee shop, I lived above the Jamba Juice on State Street. As a broke college student, with no parents to live off of, and making $7 per hour, I wasn't a fan of Starbucks. Both being students, this coffee shop was where hubs and I "dated" over textbooks and highlighters and mounds of rough drafts (we were too broke for those newfangled laptops).
But enough of the nostalgia, on to the review.
Fair Trade was my first experience drinking Mocha, and I have been hooked ever since. Considering my "first time" was here, it basically has set the standard as far as what I look for in coffee and fancy caffeinated drinks. There is no bitterness to their Mochas, it is smooth and creamy and eyelid opening. Just the way I like on a long night of studying.
There are few comfy seats, mostly tables and chairs for the hardcore study sessions and writing papers, but position yourself at a table near the window and eye the cozy chairs like a shark, and you'll get yourself a seat in a good half hour, unless your competition is the student with the ginormous book bag who plans to hunker down.
They have a decent deli selection also, their cheesecakes are a perfect coffee match. Prices are affordable, and as a regular I was "hooked up" more than a few times with a discount and an eye wink.
Just about all of State Street can have the heart fluttering effect on me when hubs and I make our returns to campus, but Fair Trade has a special place in my memories.
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