Bottlescape: Inside Capitol Roasters
Photo for the gazz.com by Walker DeVille. Click to enlarge
Capitol Roasters, at the corner of Quarrier and Summers streets, is Charleston’s most spacious coffeeshop. It’s front room receives the most glorious bath of afternoon sunlight, if you ever must evacuate your office cubicle and need to photosynthesize. Plus, it’s one of the few downtown boites where you can grab a Perrier. Or, if you need to replace a Fuze, here’s a bunch. (I recommend the White Tea Fuze.)
April 4th, 2006 at 4:08 pm
Really like your take on “downtown” Charleston. I have been living elsewhere for last 10 years and its good to see the images.
April 4th, 2006 at 4:27 pm
Thank you. Charleston is a very pleasant town. It has one of every thing you need. One wishes it had two of some things, but it is quite habitable nonetheless.
April 5th, 2006 at 11:17 am
Could you give me some background on this blog? Do you work for the gazette? I am interested in how it came to being.
April 5th, 2006 at 11:32 am
A digital camera. A livable city, worth shooting. An idea approved and executed. I prefer to let the pictures tell the story and not be the story. Are you writing from nyc? And I was wrong in my prior post– there are now at least 3 decent coffeshops in le Charleston. So there’s not one of THAT, at least, thank goodness!
May 3rd, 2007 at 9:35 am
[…] Satruday night at Capitol Roaters, Comparsa rings in Cinco De Mayo from 7:30 to 9:30 with an evening of great Latin music and dance. Then the band packs up and moves across town to The Empty Glass to continue the festivities. Comparsa’s head honcho, Eduardo Canelon, appeared on episode three of RFC, and we hope to have the whole band on sometime soon. […]