LGO

This is my favorite place right now. La Grande Orange. Or if you’re local, lazy, or just struggle to pronounce French – LGO. This place got me through the last two weeks of the semester. I wrote many pages of my Renaissance paper AND my mommy blog paper there. In fact, on the day my mommy blog paper was due, I was there for NINE hours straight. Yes, nine hours. That’s longer than a regular work day. I would say this was a negative experience, but it wasn’t because I was at LGO. And LGO has everything I need for a full day of writing.

I start my LGO day off with a Havana Latte. Yum. It’s a latte made with a pump of condensed milk to sweeten it and it’s delish. I like to accompany my latte with an LGO English muffin. They are homemade goodness. The BEST English muffin you will ever have. Just typing about it makes me hungry. Every once in a while, I will trade in my English muffin for French Pancakes (aka crêpes with strawberries and crème fraiche on top). Sometimes I will eat my English muffin for breakfast and have the crêpes for lunch, if I am pulling an all-day-er at this place.

Combine this amazing food and caffeine with a pretty awesome music selection (Black Keys, Ray LaMontagne, John Mayer to name a few that I’ve heard recently) that is played at a reasonable volume (so many coffee shops around here crank their music so loudly that you can’t even think), lots of electrical outlets and a low murmur from the other patrons and you’ve got yourself a pretty great study spot. This place is probably too crowded for studying on weekends, but I have found that it’s a nice place to work on weekdays. It’s still pretty busy, but you can always find a table and they don’t care if you sit there for hours on end. And if you need a snack about six hours in, you can always grab one of their fresh pastries or run next door for gelato. I have done both, obvi. But I try not to indulge in both on the same day….

If you are in the Phoenix area, I strongly suggest you visit LGO as soon as you can. And if you live far away, come visit and I will take you there!

Just me, Petri (the tiny computer), and The Faerie Queene at LGO. Did I leave that water bottle there? I can’t find it.

The weekday morning crowd. So pleasant.

Hello Havana Latte. I love you.