Cafes / Reviews
Do’ Lii Coffee
Operating almost directly beneath the railway arches on the Cheltenham Road, Do’ Lii Coffee has also been operating underneath the radar for the last three months since it opened. This week that may change with the introduction of cooked breakfasts for the hordes of commuters that make this part of Bristol seem very like Picadilly Circus in the morning rush hour.
Do’ Lii Coffee entices customers inside by, paradoxically, promises of an outside courtyard area and an old-fashioned log burner, being well-tended to this morning by this new cafe’s owner.
The lime green walls are matched by graffiti art in the same shade, while further in towards the outside area are photographs of the ubiquitous Che Guevara and scenes from his native Cuba.
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Chairs and bar stools are funky and wooden, there is a comfy brown fabric banquette along one wall, and small leather chairs around one corner table.
Homemade sandwiches and paninis are a speciality here, with everything made as you wait from fresh ingredients and a small choice of pastries.
Like T-Cup in Brislington (which offers “taste-t” selections), the name of the cafe means a slight change of spelling on the menu. So it’s “coffii” on offer, to choose from a selection from Puro while listening to Radio One’s Live Lounge album on the stereo, a particularly lovely version of Wonderful Life by Hurts covered by Kylie Minogue while I was weighing up my Fairtrade and organic options.
Still rather unknown, Do’ Lii Coffee deserves more offers up a cafe experience that should entice more customers through its doors over the next few months, perhaps tempted in by that cooked breakfast.
Do’ Lii Coffee, Cheltenham Road, Montpelier, Bristol. 0117 9082 611.
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