Caffe Amouri in Vienna, Virginia, is one of the few independent coffee shops in the Tysons Corner - Vienna area. Inside it has the look (deliberately so) of a cafe in the 1960s or some college town, with famous old rock or blues playing and walls covered with famous old record jackets. The coffee is excellent, especially the creamy mixes with foam ("Cafe Cortado"). But just getting there driving through the urban labyrinth is a minor nightmare, and the Amouri parking lot is equally awful, a tiny little place shared with a pizzeria, a dance studio, an interior design shop, and some other operations which prohibit more than an hour's parking time. Inside you can see the usual computer users and damsels chattering and families gathering and friends sipping. I drew this Urban Sketch including the sign for rare beans as "Adventure Coffee." It's an adventure all right but you know I hate adventures.
Black tech pen ink on sketchbook page, 4 1/2" x 6", September 22, 2017.
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