Coffee Talk: Cafe' Noir in Metry (@CafeNoirNOLA)

www.cafenoir.la

Cafe Noir on Yelp

Last month, I got an email from someone who I have known for...well, if I told you how long I've known her, she would have to kill me. Anyway, it was suggested by this friend that I spend one of my "coffeeshop mornings" at a place in Metairie called Cafe Noir.

This is (at least) the fourth incarnation of this location. It was a new age bookstore, then a coffee shop, then a po-boy place, and now it's once again a coffee shop. The address is listed as on Severn, because of the strip mall, but it's really on 17th Street, on the other side of Severn from Lakeside Mall and Morning Call. 

that's not fine linen, just white butcher paper on the tables, but it's a lively touch. 

The view from the other direction, back at the bar.  Cafe Noir does a brisk morning breakfast and take-away business.  There's upstairs seating as well, and free wi-fi for us of the geek persuasion.

Egg, bacon, and cheese "breakfast pannini" and it was very good, an interesting change from classic breafast biscuits/croissants.  The pressed bread was cripsy and fresh, and the bacon salty enough that the egg didn't need more.  Usually I'll ask a place to do the eggs over-easy, but I suspect that would just gunk up the pannini press in this case.

Grits!  Whenever I get back from a week or two out of town, I get a craving for grits.  Outside of Atlanta hotels, they're impossible to get in the cities where I teach.

I had Cafe Noir's dark roast, and it was strong and hot. 

Cafe Noir is definitely a cut above the previous coffee house incarnation of this location.  Looking forward to going back to try their sandwiches at lunchtime.