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love and care to Café Noir. The fit and feeling of this
Café Noir
historical home called the Hiatt House now known as
Café Noir couldn’t be a better match for Tootie.
There are 18 different coffee drinks served at Café
Noir along with 12 different teas encompassing
A Bohemian Oasis in East Village
green and white teas as well as other herbal teas. The
café also has a tea line that is formulated by Kung Fu
by bill biss masters of medicinal teas. As Tootie explained, “It
may sound kind of hokey but that’s how they make
Look around the city of San Diego. Condos and
their living to just practice Kung Fu. They have a green
apartment high-rises are constantly being built. The
tea. Their common green tea is the same flower that
city’s pace is fast and furious. With today’s tensions
I grew up with in Hawaii called Pikake so it smells ex-
and worries constantly on the wire, the pulse of the
actly like that Pikake. It’s also the same perfume that
city is growing to a frantic proportion. That’s all well
Babette Schwartz wears (laughter). On the menu
and good but there is an address where for an hour
or so, you can take the opportunity to step away
“This happened through partial grace and partial my
from the giants of industry and commerce. Café Noir,
located at 447 9th Avenue, just a block or so up from
liking the place. I was doing Street Scene about five
Petco Park, is a refreshingly old-fashioned retro café
years ago and the back of our stage was right there on
that transports the patron back to a much simpler
the corner of Island and 9th. When I stepped off the back
time and space. The owner and manager Tootie is
perhaps best known for his entertaining talent as
of the stage, I saw this cool looking black house and I
performer and manager of LIPS. Now, he brings his thought “Well. What is this?”
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