Brooklyn Heights Blog

Comment from Phil
Time: April 21, 2008, 7:20 am

Yay!

Comment from bhbabe
Time: April 21, 2008, 9:18 am

The part you don’t see from this sign is when the owner (manager?) herself is sitting at the bar on her Apple laptop during those no internet hours … I guess she’s working on her computer instead of web surfing, huh??

Comment from fbdb
Time: April 21, 2008, 10:03 am

Has anyone ever noticed how the waitresses there just disappear? Randomly.

Comment from anon
Time: April 21, 2008, 10:23 am

The owner/manager is not taking up seating for hours while nursing one coffee, it doesnt matter what she’s doing on her computer. its a business that needs to turn the table over, not the neighborhoods livingroom.

Comment from Teddy
Time: April 21, 2008, 5:00 pm

I passed Tazza once and noticed a good looking woman (that’s why I noticed) sitting at a table outside using her notebook PC. When I passed again almost two hours later, she was still there talking on her cell phone. Like anon said, this is a business, not the neighborhood’s living room. Many of us want a relaxing lunch without listening to someone’s irritating phone conversation.

Comment from MadeInBrooklyn
Time: April 21, 2008, 6:03 pm

BHBABE:

Did you ever think perhaps she is doing the store’s book-keeping or ordering???

Comment from frances
Time: April 22, 2008, 7:40 am

I’m with Teddy — the intimate details of life that are shared in a loud voice over traffic into a cell phone, or at a restaurant or in the grocery store, are grating as hell. I love it that cell phones are banned at Overtures. I can understand needing to turn tables over, but for the peace of mind of other diners, ban cell phones as well!

Comment from No One Of Consequence
Time: April 22, 2008, 10:11 am

Aren’t you excited for when we can use cell phones on planes?

Comment from yo
Time: April 22, 2008, 10:45 am

or the subway?

Comment from nabeguy
Time: April 22, 2008, 11:09 am

“Don’t tazza ma bro!” It’s about time that some restauranteurs have decided to stand their ground against people who either can’t figure out how to make a good cup of coffee at home, or are tired of looking at their Ikea furniture. I witnessed a couple sitting opposite each other in the window of Henry St Ale House for 5 hours (!), each with a laptop propped on the table in front of them, which left no room for either a drink or food. Yoo-hoo people, it’s a bar, not a library.

Comment from Joe
Time: April 22, 2008, 12:51 pm

the idea is a good one. I used to see Gabriel Byrne at Tazza. Conversing with a lunch mate or reading. He is clearly the model Tazza client. Haven’t seen him of late though maybe he couldn’t get a table.

Comment from Bart
Time: April 23, 2008, 9:35 am

I would love to be able to afford to actually buy a cup of coffee.

But with mortgage payments on the coop, two children at St. Ann’s, maxing 401k and 503bs, dealing with the ATM, and a dog, this Upper-Lower class Brooklyn Heights resident will just have to make do by smelling the aroma.

Obviously the people who can buy a cup of coffee are members of the Upper Class.

Bart

Comment from Michele
Time: April 23, 2008, 12:34 pm

Seems to me that they actually want an environment that is a pleasant, European one, and it works for me. I go to Tazza to get AWAY from the damn computer and phone. I give them my money, they give me a nice experience, I go back. Good business!

Comment from nabeguy
Time: April 23, 2008, 2:35 pm

Okay, so what the neighborhood really could use is an internet/phone-booth/sofa-lounge/cafe/bar. It’d probably make a fortune. Any investors out there?

Comment from bornhere
Time: April 23, 2008, 3:24 pm

Kind of sounds like my home, nabeguy. Show me the money.

Comment from nabeguy
Time: April 23, 2008, 4:33 pm

Show me your home and I probably won’t need money. How soon can you open?