The spectacular new cafe showplace opened by La Colombe on Frankford Avenue is a jaw-dropper for its sheer vastness, edgy style, and revved-up ambition. The 11,000-square-foot warehouse has been transformed into a soaring palace of Fishtown coffee chic, with the bonus of a full-on bread bakery (producing the city's best baguette), a copper-clad wood-fired oven, and a gleaming rum distillery that operates behind a phalanx of aging barrels and glass panes. This is no ordinary cafe. La Colombe's mega-hybrid coffee gambit is a major event, with as many as 1,400 people a day caffeinating there on the busiest days - even without WiFi. It's meaningful not simply for up-and-coming Fishtown, now with...
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