Sunny days are here again

Spring's been great at Delicious. We've had a chance to introduce you to our iced coffee while still serving hot chocolates. But it seems warm weather is here to stay now. We've traded in our apple cider for homemade limeade, and we're going through iced coffee like crazy! We brew Counter Culture coffee in a toddy (in cold water over 12 hours) so it's some of the best iced coffee around. These are perfect days for introducing yourself to our smoothie menu. We'll also be cutting back on our retail chocolate selections. We love offering you so many vegan chocolate bars, but we hate watching them melt in our sunny window! This will be your last chance to pick up Rescue Chocolate, Sweet Earth Organics, Chocolove, and chocolate-covered caramels. Well, til the fall anyway. We'll be adding some non-melty stuff to our retail section, but you should quench your chocolate thirst now. Before it's too late! Happy Summer, Delicious fans!

Make Mine Chocolate!

We're excited about the "Make Mine Chocolate" campaign! It's an initiative to encourage parents to buy chocolate bunnies as Easter gifts rather than real bunnies.  Chicks and rabbits are too often purchased as Easter gifts, and quickly abandoned at shelters around the country.  Don't forget that these are animals--not toys--and they need a lot of love and care.  Wouldn't it be easier just to buy a chocolate bunny?  Delicious is currently stocking chocolate bunnies from Rescue Chocolate, which are part of the "Make Mine Chocolate" campaign.  We also have chocolate truffle eggs from Rescue Chocolate, and Almond-Butter Bunnies & Truffle Eggs from Sjaak's Organic Chocolates.  If you're acting as Easter Bunny for vegan kids, dairy-free kids, or just kids with awesome taste, we recommend picking some of these chocolate treats!

March First

Just a note to let you know that Delicious will be closing early on Thursday, March 1st.  The shop will be shutting down around 5pm in order to prepare for a quasi-AWP event.  Bloof Books, Alice Blue Review, and Coconut Poetry will be hosting a reading in the cafe.  Although we won't be serving food or espresso drinks, we're happy to sell you coffee, tea, or pastries to go along with your poetry.  Door opens around 5:30.  Reading starts around 6.  Open to the public, but please know that Delicious is quite small!

Happy February!

I'm a little late in wishing everyone a Happy February, so I'll go ahead and wish you a Happy March as well!  This weather has kept us guessing whether we should stick to our cozy fall flavors or go ahead and introduce some spring colors.  We're straddling the fence in a way, offering lavender Italian sodas and sprinkled mini donuts while hanging on to our pumpkin spice lattes and maple-pecan-pumpkin scones.  Either way, we're glad to be serving so many of you!  Response from the neighborhood has been great.  As our neighbors, Big Bricks, finally opened shop, we've seen a bigger surge of people into Trader's Row.  We've had to raise some prices a few cents in order to keep serving organic ingredients to bigger crowds, but we still feel like our goodies are a deal.  Vegan AND delicious?  A sandwich AND chips for $5.80?  Sounds awesome to me!

Aaron Ehinger has been showing his photography all month, and we've loved seeing Carrie Brownstein and Wild Flag up on our walls.  Aaron's band photography is fantastic!  We'll  be switching to prints from Marika Paz for March.  Come by and check our her awesome art!  And, as always, we have a rotating selection of stuff in our retail area.  New mugs from Cakespy are on the way, and we just got a shipment of stickers from Herbivore.

Hope your quasi-winter, quasi-spring is going well.  Stop in and tell us all about it.  We'll make you a latte while you're at it.

Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday!

Who: All Delicious fans!

What: BINGO night!  Hang out at your favorite vegan coffee shop with all of your friends, playing Bingo all night long...  (Actually, just from 8-10pm)  It costs $5 to get a Bingo card, and you use it for as many games as you'd like.  This month your money benefits K9 4 Keeps; but you will still benefit from buying into Bingo, because you get dollar drip coffee and half-price pastries!  You can also win fabulous prizes if you get a Bingo!

Where: Delicious Cafe, of course.  We're at 3827 N Lincoln Ave.

When: Wednesday, February 1st.  Games start at 8 and go for two-ish hours.

Why: Because it's awesome!  You help a charity, you win prizes, you eat cupcakes.

Early Bird gets the latte

Starting on Monday (January the 9th), Delicious will be opening at 7am! You can now come to your favorite coffee shop between 7am and 8pm and find the door open. But if you want these to be permanent hours, you'll have to come visit us early in the morning. If no one stops in, we'll go back to sleeping in...

New Year's edit

Hello, Delicious fans! We posted earlier that we would be closed for New Year's Day. However, we will actually be open and ready to serve you some coffee! We'll be here on January 1st from 10am to 6pm. Stop by and start your 2012 with us!