all my favorite coffee shops, told in memories (what would i be without coffee?) ☕️

📍 Chicago, IL

Plein Air: one and only hyde park spot—ideated korean honorifics project here!

necessary & sufficient coffee: sunday reading spot in printers row 📚

Philz: never worked in store, but love their honey haze 🐝🍯

📍 Philadelphia, PA

Elixr: favorite weekend study spot (strawberry matcha latte)

Saxbys: discovered chatterlab lm posting here 🤭

K’Far: nothing ever beat pre-study sesh pistachio sticky bun and yemenite iced coffee

Madis Coffee: lots of stress work completed here 🫡

Capital One Café: if i didn’t get up early enough on the weekends…i ended up here

*United by Blue: LOTS of coding assignments completed at Walnut location, unfortunately closed down my senior year 🥲

📍 New York, NY

Kijitora: best mango matcha 🥭🍵

Gemina Coffee Shop: frequent nyc first stop 1️⃣

Kona Coffee Roasters: submitted my ugrad senior thesis here!

Blue Bottle Coffee: ’twas a philly to nyc travel tradition to stop by blue bottle first

📍 Boston, MA

Pavement Coffeehouse: early morning, just me and my poster

Caffe Landwer: stress work is better with food and specialty drinks 🙂‍↕️

Tatte: good shakshuka, good pistachio latte, right when i needed them 😋

📍 Korea

A Twosome Place: submitted grad apps here (good strawberry chocolate cake)! 🍓🍫