cafetableaux reviews jo’s south
The following is reviewed at Cafe Tableux by blogger who has visited – and reviewed – quite a few coffee shops in Texas, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, NH, NJ, NY, NC, ND, Pennsylvania, Oregon, the UK, Vermont, and Washington. Begin quote:
“I believe that Jo’s was beholden to the sort of detail and organization that gave it the richness that I appreciated. Although I picture Thos.’s coffee trailer in an Atlanta parking lot or his guerilla shop in the parking lot of SCI-Arc not really having the loving organizational fetish that makes Jo’s both appealing and functional.
What this signage and compartmentalization fetish does is to turn the nugget of a building into a black hole of a building. By this I mean that its energies have been compressed into an incredibly dense morsel that contains all of the trappings that a larger shop would, but they occupy little to no space, which in turn causes the space next to the building to assume that function or sensibility, to be drawn into it. Jo’s does not send out rays of itself, it consumes space by claiming it with visual energy.
Thus I was sucked out of the car and out of the motel to risk a coffee before flying out into a clear blue soothing forever sky. They have damn good vegan oat cakes as well.”
