I love this place.
It's not the best coffee shop in the land yet I keep finding myself there - and dragging anyone I'm with along too.
It's a bit cramped upstairs and they have some hot pipes as you go through the curtain. Bar beyond that with seats to the left of a pretty narrow corridor.
Water theme. How’d you guess? Why yooou..!
Go for the White Dolphin for a good smoke but it's pretty much as good as the next place menu-wise. They didn’t have it one time I went there (White Dolphin, silly

). So probably a good idea to be packing when you go. There’s better stuff out there…
Rizla, roaches, fish tank hanging from the ceiling over the bar – the usual coffee shop fare.
They also sell cakes and so forth, but yet to be tempted (for no other reason than I wasn’t there for that).
Drinks: Grab yourself a hot chocolate (with cream) for some good smokin' accompaniment.
It's a 2 out of 3 regarding the staff. Just the once I was there they weren't all that chatty or 'bothered', I suppose you could say, but it mattered not cos...
But the rest of the time – lovely. Some crazy-eyed lad was working there last time – I asked him if he was always bombed cos he looked so crazy-eyed, but it would appear that he loved life. Or sugar. Or lied.
We sat downstairs. This is much better, roomier, with TV's and more hot pipes. I didn't use them, but the couple of times others did the staff were really helpful.
There are several cushion-seated 'booths' with table and stools. It's very easy to get settled there as to the testimony of my missus who will have two tokes at best. She loved the chill, the unobtrusive atmosphere (good for the smoke) and the hot chocolate!
Which reminds me; having to traverse the steps is probably easier when funky drunk! - steep issues.
Saying all that, it's just a chill-stop, and (twice) was a good night-closer - cos it was near our hotel. If it was a ‘final destination’, I’d have had one of those cakes I mentioned earlier.
Still might…
Overall, a good place to stop over, maybe bring your own, have a few and then go where you're getting to: “Mmmm. That was nice. Where now..?”
For that, it gets:
7.5/10 - Extra .5 cos once you pop, you can't stop
