{"id":371,"date":"2006-08-31T08:36:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-31T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/?p=371"},"modified":"2006-08-31T08:36:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-31T14:36:00","slug":"scusi-coffee-shop-parkview-johannesburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/scusi-coffee-shop-parkview-johannesburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Scusi Coffee-Shop, Parkview, Johannesburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"date-header\">Thursday, August 31, 2006<\/h2>\n<p><i>Service: * * * *<br \/>   Food: * * * *<br \/>   Ambience: * * * *<br \/>   Babe Count: * * * * *<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Phone: +27 11 646 8639<br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p> I&#8217;ve been strolling up and down Tyrone Avenue for the last hour or so, seeing what there is to see. Unfortunately, I&#8217;ve got my leather satchel slung over my shoulder. And it&#8217;s damned heavy. Cos inside it is my Toshiba Tecra M4 tablet pc and various other writing stuff.<\/p>\n<p>The Toshiba is NOT a light machine. But heck, it really does what I need it to do.<\/p>\n<p>I go into Scusi.<\/p>\n<p>A waiter greets me warmly, and offers to find a table for me. They look full. Lunchtime full, and it&#8217;s only noon.<\/p>\n<p>I say, &#8216;If it&#8217;s possible, I need to sit near a plug point, for my computer.&#8217; I heft my bag, and he nods.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Do you mind sitting in the back?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I don&#8217;t mind sitting in the kitchen, if there&#8217;s a plug point.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He shows me to a table. A biggggg one. Which is great. Cos I like to spread out.<\/p>\n<p>The manageress, a darkly pretty brunette with curves, comes to my table as I&#8217;m cable-locking my machine to the table. She says, &#8216;I have to apologise&#8230; our WIFI isn&#8217;t up and running right now. We&#8217;ve exceeded our bandwidth cap, and they&#8217;re busy recharging.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;How much do you charge for your WIFI?&#8217; I ask.<\/p>\n<p>She says, &#8216;It&#8217;s free. It&#8217;s just a service we provide for our customers.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>I order a decaff cappuccino.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a long time since I&#8217;ve done one of my characteristic &#8216;Coffee-Shop Schmuck&#8217; coffee-shop reviews. I just can&#8217;t resist this one, cos the cappuccinos are exceptionally good.<\/p>\n<p>The flavour on this one is reallllly worth writing home about. I&#8217;m pretty sure most caffeine abusers wouldn&#8217;t be able to tell that this is a decaff one. And I&#8217;m not jolting about, so I know they haven&#8217;t slipped me a mickey.<\/p>\n<p>I order lunch. It arrives. It&#8217;s butternut ravioli in creamy napolitana sauce. And it&#8217;s superb. Delicious. Real value for money at only R40 for a generous portion.<\/p>\n<p>Last night I rented the second disc of season 2 of DEADWOOD. And watched two episodes. Yeeks. I think it&#8217;s safe to say that DEADWOOD has completely blown my mind.<\/p>\n<p>One of the babes sitting at the big table just to my left has been giving me the eye. And she looks a heck of a lot like the cute little blonde prostitute in DEADWOOD. The new one. The one who&#8217;s been brought in to &#8216;deal with&#8217; the needs of the mysterious mining-scout.<\/p>\n<p>So now, it&#8217;s off to therapy. To tell my shrink, Zahava, all about how I&#8217;m coping with not being in a relationship with &#8216;S&#8217;. And to find out from her what I need to do to attract wholesome gals.<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-style: italic;\" class=\"tag_list\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Tags: <span class=\"tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/royblumenthal\" rel=\"tag\">royblumenthal<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/roy+blumenthal\" rel=\"tag\">roy blumenthal<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/blumenthal\" rel=\"tag\">blumenthal<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/coffeeshopschmuck\" rel=\"tag\">coffeeshopschmuck<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/coffee+shop+schmuck\" rel=\"tag\">coffee shop schmuck<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/restaurant\" rel=\"tag\">restaurant<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/review\" rel=\"tag\">review<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/coffee\" rel=\"tag\">coffee<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/coffee-shop\" rel=\"tag\">coffee-shop<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Roy Blumenthal is a writer, director, artist, and <a href=\"http:\/\/snipurl.com\/visualfacilitator\">visual facilitator<\/a>. Hire him to make pictures of your meetings or workshops.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, August 31, 2006 Service: * * * * Food: * * * * Ambience: * * * * Babe Count: * * * * * Phone: +27 11 646 8639 I&#8217;ve been strolling up and down Tyrone Avenue for &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/scusi-coffee-shop-parkview-johannesburg\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scusi Coffee-Shop, Parkview, Johannesburg<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p521FP-5Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}