Write Around Tampa

United Coffee Club

4011 Tampa Road #11

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Intimate café with restaurant-sized vibe, United Coffee is a great place to go with friends and family, which I did. How does it stack up as a place to get thoughts on paper? Let's find out.

Quality and pricing of food and drink:
Three sandwiches (avocado toast, corned beef breakfast, Cuban breakfast) and three drinks (hot chocolate, Arnold Palmer, Parrot Punch) and a bag of chips was about $53, so even with a tip for the barista added in that's still less than $20 per person, which is quite rare these days. And considering how delicious it was and two of us took half of our sandwiches home, that's real bang for the buck. And the variety of sweets is quite tempting. We took home a whole iced lemon loaf.

Are there enough outlets?
Not even one. Come fully charged.

How's the wifi?
Password protected, displayed on the counter

Will my muse come out?
Yes. There's a perfect booth tucked away by a window, great for privacy and outside-watching. That being said, every seat is conducive to getting lost in your creativity, featuring a mixture of booths and tables. The muzak-y music isn't one bit distracting, either, letting you focus solely on the words in your head.

How long can I park it?
Until 6-6 five days a week, 8-6 weekends. And you'll want to, probably until your battery runs out.

Final rating: 4 out of 5 laptops (you can't get 5 laptops without even one stinking plug)

Rachel Remick's fiction and non-fiction stories have appeared in various magazines, among them Rosebud, Bluestem, Minerva Rising, and ellipsis . . . literature and art. A frequent contributor to women's magazine Sasee, her writing has also been published in several volumes of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series of books. She lives in Tampa, Florida.