Tea Lounge - Cobble Hill

My search for the perfect study coffee shop continues.

Today, as I had an extra two hours after dropping off my babysitting client at her dance class, I ventured around Cobble Hill looking for a reasonable coffee shop to study in. This really involves a lot of walking, peeking my head in the window, and counting the number of laptops per total number of tables. If the ratio is close to 50% or higher, I deem it a constructive study space. Seems to work.

It seems my non-beloved Park Slope Tea Lounge has a second location on Court Street (Cobble Hill). And, by my humble opinion, they got it better the second time. I have many issues with the Park Slope location, including the place being too dark, loud, and even the smell of some couches.

The Cobble Hill Tea Lounge is a pretty standard comfy couch- art on walls-coffee and snacks- cool music coffee shop. Nothing too unique, but that's why it was great. There is a certain comfort in the beat up couches and familiar music sensibilities. It taps into that side of me that used to actually get homework done back in college. Good productive vibe, specially with plenty of natural light, fresh air, and lots of people in study mode.

I ordered a regular coffee and an Italian panini. The coffee was good enough for my limited palette, though I do wish they would let customers sweeten their own drinks. Getting the right amount of sugar and coffee is a labour of love that needs to added slowly to mix better. The sandwich was tasty, and it was basically a glorified grilled cheese with tomato and basil. It was fresh tasting, and really hit the spot.

I don't see how I'd make it back. Cobble Hill is not my neck of the woods, but I'd highly recommend it as a neighborhood coffee shop to others.