Easy to miss if not for the signs outside. This cute little building was taken over by Jimmy's Coffee earlier this year. It's small but cozy, decorated with antiques and tributes to all things Jimmy (Hendrix and others). Here's how it's laid out:
1st floor: counter/pastries + street-watching seats
2nd floor: communal tables that make for student haven
3rd floor: one communal table
I read a yelp review earlier today about how nowadays cafes do this odd thing where they blast music, and I cannot unread it. This cafe does the same unfortunately but it's more contemporary (e.g. Usher, Destiny's Child, the odd Bob Marley now and then). The plugged-in students here don't seem to mind.
I had a cortado and chocolate zucchini muffin (a little sweet but try it!). Inexpensive, came down to about $5.50. Coffee wasn't bad. Their cortados were relatively big (say, compared to Dark Horse and Red Line).
The baristas were friendly! I think one of them was new. All in all, sweet place. I'd come again.