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Now Open Indigo Bridge Books and Cafe

Indigo Bridge Books and Cafe has finally opened their doors in the Creamery Building at 700 P street, across the hall from Ivanna Cone. I know, Lincoln needs another coffee shop like a hole in the head, but Indigo Bridge is a special place. Aside from being an independent book seller, this is also where you can get some fresh brewed Cultiva Coffee, since they switched to purely roasting at their 15th and South location.

Ivy and I stopped in there last Friday, and I have to say that it is a nice little place. They have a very good selection of books on a broad range of topics including plenty current art/design and social science books. Since the rest of the Creamery’s businesses tend to cater to kids—Ivanna Cone, Paint Yourself Silly—Indigo Bridge has also made a point to carry plenty of children’s and young adult books. I can’t speak to that selection because I don’t have children and would thus feel like a creeper if I hung out reading Hop on Pop, but a nice feature of the children’s section is a big tree made out of what looks like coils of old fabric, so you kiddies can chill under the tree and read a book.

I was told (second hand) that all of the books were hand picked by a group of people who’s individual tastes lies in the genres they offer. I definitely believe this based on their current selection. For instance, while their sci-fi section is sparse, they do have select novels by key authors in the genre such as William Gibson, Terry Pratchet and Douglas Adams. They also carry a couple popular/new series. Indigo Bridge also has quite a few Neil Gaiman and Chuck Palahniuk novels which I suppose goes a way towards establishing the “hippness” of the store.

There is seating near the Art section for sitting and enjoying a cup of coffee, and soon they will install speakers to pipe in some tunes (again second-hand). Now, I can’t say much for the coffee, since we didn’t have any while we were there. Based on my past experience with Cultiva I’d have to guess that the coffee is excellent. I think I might’ve mentioned before that Cultiva is by far my favorite coffee in the world, and it’s nice to be able to run down the street and pick up a bag whenever we are out though.

Visit Cultiva’s website to learn more about their happenings.

Update

I’m a little cheesed off by the email that Ivy got yesterday which has Indigo’s new hours. It looks like after only four weeks in the game they are reducing their hours to: Mon-Wed 8am-6pm, Thurs 8am-10pm, Fri-Sat 8am-11pm, Closed Sunday. It looks like folks with J-O-Bs will only get to enjoy Indigo three days a week, unless of course you work in close proximity. Being closed Sunday probably hurts the most since I tend to avoid Saturdays downtown like the plague during husker season. This is all kind of lame in my humble opinion. GRR.

Posted: September 23, 2008 | Life | Proj @ 10:32 am | | Comments (11) |