Connecticut Muffin comes to Ditmas Park

So buy your coffee at Vox Pop, get yer muffin at Connecticut Muff. I don't see why these 2 places need to be at odds. VP is doing something very different than CM & I think they'll keep their customers.

Or, get your muffins at John's Bakery.

I love the new CT Muff! Vox Pop is great, don't get me wrong, but their prices are ridiculous. I'm not paying 3 bux for a cup of joe. I know Sander has to support his family and pay rent, but COME ON! I still love Vox Pop for everything else (i.e., everything except the overpriced coffee and tea). It is wonderful for our community. So I'll go to VP for open mic and readings and to flip through Bust, but I'm buying my coffee across the street at CT! *Also, if you get to the Muffin at the right time- right when they put out the samples- you can practicially get an entire muffin for free.

$3 certainly is a lot to pay for a cup of joe, even if it is fairly traded. I do not believe that the coffee and tea are so expensive just because it is fairly traded. When the store first opened, everything was a lot cheaper. I realize there are costs to running a business, renting the space, paying employees, etc. But I am a working gal myself, and I simply cannot afford the luxury goods sold in Vox Pop. I sincerely do love the store though. And I do not take advantage of it. If I am in there to sit and hang out (it has a great atmosphere) I always buy something, as I would in any coffee shop; it's my way of paying rent for my a** on the chair. I even buy BOOKS there- yes, I buy books from the anarchist bookseller! I don't know why I am even writing all this. I originally posted to say that I appreciate the arrival of CT Muff. I prefer the awesome atmosphere at the Pop, but I cannot afford to buy coffee from them as frequently as I could from the Muffin. Nevertheless, I love the pop, have been going there since it opened in 2004 with the homemade furniture- I feel like it is a real fixture in the neighborhood, and it was critical in bringing about a sense of community that was sorely lacking. But I will complain about any coffee that costs $3 a cup. Final word: I love the Pop, I don't just go there to look at their magazines- I always buy something if I'm there because I want to support this neighborhood business. But what I buy is definitely not the $3 coffee.

CT is selling sandwiches for $9 and burgers for $10

anyone think this is crazy?

i think that cm is great. starbucks sucks.

Baly wrote: I WAS very excited about Vox Pop selling beer, except when they didn't have it, didn't know how to dispense it properly, and were high and mighty about even selling it ("I don't drink beer," a worker said disdainfully, when asked about the beers available).

It really depends on when you go there and whose running the joint when you are. Last summer I went there for their BBQ (GREAT stuff) and I think it might have been the owner doing the cooking in front, and he was VERY friendly.

I DO agree that they don't appear to know how to dispense the beer, AND appear to not think much of it. What a way to treat the first food drink manufactured by humans!

The only problem I had once was getting weird looks and no service once when I went in wearing a jacket with a Masonic Square and Compasses on it (I am a Freemason) and I guess the (not well educated) people thought I was Skull & Bones or something.. My money spends the same as anyone elses..

Now, if we could only get a good all around bookstore, and bar in the neighborhood!!!

JAH wrote: As far as I am concerned the opening of a Connecticut Muffin is a sure sign of the destruction of a neighborhood. As soon as they are there you KNOW its all over.

SERIOUSLY??? I doubt that. There are enough places in the neighborhood so there is some competition as well as enough things to bring people here. If all you want is a nice quiet neighborhood, .. pretty soon it'll be a nice DEAD neighborhood..

Granted, I'd HATE my neighborhood to become another Park Slope or Dumbo, but I DO want some money and people coming out this way..