Coffee Shop Review: Spankey's

DC is a city of conformity and Brooks Brothers, a city of single mindedness amongst the partisan fighting. It is a world where caffeine fueled days dominate your existence. For the most part people in DC care about the end game but that end game can only be accomplished through specific channels. For caffene the city wants Starbucks, venti, triple shot espsresso, organic foam, and soy milk macchaito. What is that??? Coffee in DC is rough, those of you who read my restaurant reviews know full well the city cant make coffee. SO i have strrted to investigate the coffee scene a bit more.

Murkey is the pinnacle in DC, great coffee done with care. But what else is out there???

Spankeys is on the fringe area of the gentrification. The coffee menu is basic with a "No Starbonic's Allowed small or large." I went for lunch with two friends and was pleasantgly surprised. Spankey's is on 14th street near the cool home stores. The interior is rundown, and the shop is populated with law school students, and DC's new bohemians, personally looking at the macs i saw mostly scripts being written....anyway the shop is run down, the crew at the time was at first was stand offish, we ordered coffee and sandwichs and were regualted to the back room. The back room was an icebox, it was freezing cold, one of my friends couldnt take the cold so we sat at the bar next to where our sandwich's were made. I had a sausage, egg and cheese on an everything bagel with a large cafe au lait. While not hard to make you really should used pressed coffee and steamed milk. My au lait was tasty and hot. As i drank my coffee we expouneded on relationships rated by our new 007 scale now with DC atop the 007 scene we have a proper scale to work from. My longest relationship was a Pierce Brosnon, my friend A thinks she has a Daniel Craig and Petey is still confused by this girl who he says is a Connery. As this useless banter continued the coffee shop crew relaxed. I ordered more coffee and when i went to pay they guy said whatever it all comes out in the wash. As i moved to my PB&J, the surly sandwich maker became sweet and asked to "cut the crust off my bread." Petey believes that "Cut the crust off my bread" is secret craig's lsit speak for sex. I hope that's true because the sandwich girl was smoking hot. A had coffee and carrot cake, too sweet, too big and too much frosting.

The conversation moved to the pro's of Seattle vs Portland, two cities that are cool but can you really live there???

Spankey's is cool. COunter culture coffee done right. Enjoy, its dirty and you have all the hipsters and script writers to deal with but hot java reasonable priced.