Stop 2: Lofty Coffee, Little Italy in the $#%# rain!

Lofty Coffee was just up the street ,

and while en route, started to sprinkle ever so slightly...

KD's Birthday Crawl - Stop 1: Parakeet Cafe, Little Italy

Yesterday was yet another fun outing with the Educator GF's...

This time, it was for our dear friend KD's birthday. First stop was at the very new Parakeet Cafe in Little Italy....

Dark Horse on 25th + Lofty Coffee Cafe & Bakery, Little Italy revisits

On the day before Christmas...

Bert and I had our Saturday coffee date early, as usual...

D's Belated Birthday Crawl: Stop #7 - Pamela's Kitchen Table

Our last stop would be lunch. Us gals gotta eat, right?

We were actually going to leave Little Italy and play it by ear for lunch...

D's Belated Birthday Crawl: Stops 4, 5 & 6 - Little Italy Farmer's Market, the new Little Italy Food Hall & Blick

It was nice walking around earlier before the crowds...

as we made our way back to the main drag...

D's Belated Birthday Crawl Stop 2: Devil's Dozen Donut Shop

Devil's Dozen has been open since 2015...

and to be honest, I haven't wanted to go because of their limited flavor selection...

D's Belated Birthday Crawl Stop 1: Return to Herb & Eatery

Although D's birthday was in early August...

we were only recently able to do her birthday crawl earlier today...

Frost Me Cafe & Bakery with Kirbie

This past weekend, I had the pleasure of meeting up with my friend Kirbie...

who selected today's destination...

New drinks from Scrimshaw, Heartsleeves and coffee fail at Cafe Moto

Yesterday was another coffee date with Bert...

one more later, Scrimshaw came out with another new drink...

Salt & Straw + more street art in Little Italy

It was time to head back to India Street...

I didn't want to wait in a long line...

Herb & Eatery

Bert said we could have walked from Santa Fe Depot station...

up to the Little Italy stop...

Mimmo's Italian Village

This past weekend we celebrated my neighbor's birthday...

It was planned by her daughters and husband...

and led us to the heart of Little Italy...

Mine-a-Lisa mural, Grape Street offramp to the I-5

The other night when TC and I picked up Bert from the airport, I noticed that the old mural on the Grape Street onramp to the 5 was replaced!

This was another reason why I wanted to return to Little Italy, so we could see this new art piece in the daylight...

Return to Lofty Coffee Cafe and Bakery, Little Italy

TC and I were so happy that Bert was back home...

Daylight Savings time was the other day and we were crazy enough to head over to Little Italy the next morning...

Some coffee was in order here...

Lofty Coffee Cafe and Bakery, Little Italy

Finally, the weekend is here...

(Condo construction along Columbia St. in Little Italy)

Bert and I had a few hours free this morning since TC was at a sports event which we would later attend...

I read that Encinitas based roaster, Lofty Coffee had just opened this past Thursday in Little Italy...

Pre-birthday Foodcrawl, Stop 2 - An appetizer at The Crack Shack

This next spot was not on my planned itinerary but we were so glad to "deviate"...

and give The Crack Shack a try!  It was merely a block away from our first stop at James Coffee...

Pre-birthday Food Crawl with the Educator GF's - First stop for caffeine and pie @ James Coffee!

The Educator GF's and I departed from my abode earlier this morning and were pretty much out the majority of the day...

No sign of rain (which would come later tonight). As early as it was...

parking on the northern end of Little Italy was actually quite painless...

Lunch @ Bracero Cocina de Raiz (plus pre lunch dessert at Pan Bon)

A few days ago, I had the pleasure of having lunch with one of my dear friends, MFH.

We had planned to go to Bracero twice before...

Heartsleeves Coffee (formerly Mad Fix)

Sunny and warm in November?

We'll take it...it beats freezing our @$$es off eh!

Our morning was spent checking out the newest coffee place in Little Italy...

Mad Fix Coffee + breakfast @ Caffe Italia

[Update - MadFix Coffee is now gone and replaced with Heartsleeves Coffee as of 11/2015]

This would be my last weekday of vacation...

With only a few hours to spare in the morning (between shuttling TC to tennis practice and picking her up)...MN and I enjoyed some quality time together at a new coffee shop in Little Italy...

located at the cute row of cottages on W. Fir St...

This new coffee place replaced the now defunct cupcake shop, Adore, in which the owner, without my permission, used my photo of my cupcake on her fkg facebook page; then I called her out on it and she ended up crediting me. To be clear, I did not let her know I was a foodblogger. She happened to see my blog after a reader went to the shop after reading my post and told her that she heard about the place from me. In any case, karma! The shop's gone and she can just bite me now, haha.

Free cupcake my ass...but on to the coffee!