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Article: Coffee shops, eateries and other places to enjoy a respite from the world
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- New Haven Register
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- August 31, 2007
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The fall season is upon us, bringing with it new coffee shops,
revived diners and renovated restaurants. Most of this is good.
You might think we have enough coffee shops around here, but I
believe it was smart of Best Video's owner Hank Paper to clear space
for a coffee corner.
As one of his staffers pointed out when I visited that Hamden
video rental shop, virtually nobody rents VHS tapes anymore (it's
all gone DVD), so Best Video is selling off all of that stock,
allowing space for coffee.
The coffee area is also personally appealing to Paper, because
now he can sit there and peck away at his laptop something he has
been forbidden to do at his former hangout, Lulu's European
Coffeehouse ...