Category: Cafes
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Hiroaki and Takaaki Koshiba
Following Saturday night’s amazing 5th anniversary party at Cafe Pause — I’ll get photos up soon — on Sunday night we were treated to another performance by painter Hiroaki Koshiba, accompanied on guitar by his brother, Takaaki Koshiba. Photos taken on iPhone using the Toy Camera app.
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Cafe Pause 5th Anniversary Party
I’m always told I announce these things too late, so let it be said now: this coming Saturday (February 21) Cafe Pause celebrates its fifth anniversary. Doors will open at 19:00, with live performances starting at 20:00 — I’d make sure not to miss Taichi at 21:00. Entry will be free, and I’ll of course…
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Pause Original Blend Tea
This month marks the fifth anniversary of Cafe Pause, and one of the things we did to help mark the occasion was to create an original tea blend for the cafe — well, two actually, one is regular tea, the other is a herbal blend. Five labels were created by five friends of the cafe:…
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Magazines at Cafe Pause
I know I don’t do magazine round-ups anymore here, and I haven’t updated the Cafe Pause blog in a while concerning new magazines, but I do in fact still curate the magazine selection there, and picked up a few more today, which I’ve listed on the cafe’s blog.
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Vinegar Cafe
Dezeen posts a few images of the Vinegar Cafe, a space designed by Shinichiro Himematsu serving dishes using vinegar from an adjacent factory.
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Cafe Pause Poster Series: Josh McKible
A new season means it’s time for a new entry in the “Cafe Pause Poster Series” (#4), this time by Tokyo-based illustrator Josh McKible. Huge thanks to Josh for the contribution. Below, a look at the poster as seen in the cafe‘s entrance.
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Hive Cafe
Headed out to Iidabashi tonight to meet up with the TAB/AQ crew to celebrate the birthday of TAB staffer extraordinaire Kaori. We went to Hive Cafe (1F Grand Plus, 4-7-4 Iidabashi), newly opened this week, and from the same owner of the terrific Boulangerie A in Sanbancho (near Co-Lab). It was quite the feast!
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Cafe Pause Poster #3
So there you have it, Shantell‘s poster for the Cafe Pause series is now up. I’ve already noticed a few people spend a bit of time looking at it, trying to pick up all the details that went into it. You can better see it here.