1. Love Café on U St. will satisfy your sweet tooth with its assortment of cupcakes and cakes, which, like fine wine, are slightly aged to flavorful perfection. True to its name, this snug little café is the perfect place to cuddle with a lover, a friend or your always-faithful laptop.
2. Busboys and Poets, another U St. hotspot, will bring out the creative genius in you. Grab a couch, plug in your laptop, and dig in to that final paper with a good cup of bottomless coffee and a personal pizza at your side. If you find yourself at a loss for words, do some soul searching at the adjoining bookshop, stacked with literary treasures that are sure to fire some inspiration through your neurons.
3. Politics and Prose, another bookstore/coffeehouse combo on upper Connecticut Ave., undoubtedly trumps the putrefying atrocities on the Lauinger shelves. A strong cup of joe and a deli-style sandwich will get you going for a few hours. And when you feel the ADHD kicking in, you can always wander upstairs, where you might catch a documentary film screening or an author reading to yank out that last ounce of cram.
4. Teaism, a cozy niche in Dupont, will take you to the heights of academic nirvana with its fine assortment of tisanes and oolongs. This little Zen den serves up heart-warming Eastern dishes and Japanese teas that provide a pleasant reprieve from the caffeine-induced limb twitching of your hours of fruitless coffee guzzling.
