Pleasant Pops, Farmhouse Market and Cafe in Adams Morgan on Florida Avenue and Seaton Street

[darkstar965]

So this place is probably overdue for its own thread since it:

- has been around for 2.5 years
- is in Adams Morgan
- has reasonably good offerings
- has been mentioned only in passing in a couple of other, not-so-recent, topics
- is just a few steps from the now-shuttered Hans Pedr' Kaffe, which had been serving good coffee

Online here:

http://www.pleasantpops.com

Hopefully, someone else who knows this place well can report a bit, as I only "discovered" it this week.

Evidently, this biz is the brainstorm of a pair of college buddies who set out to "reinvent" the childhood ice pop with a local/farm spin, realized that probably wasn't lucrative enough to be sustainable, worked farmers markets, a truck and a food incubator, before finally expanding the concept some but still with the goofy name that probably masks what they actually are to some degree.

It's a coffee shop since they use Ceremony coffee and espresso, have a Marzocco espresso maker, offer free and fast wifi and have an assortment of decent baked goods like a coffee shop might.

But, this can be fairly debated since they also have a fairly developed lunch business with sandwiches and salads, refrigerated cases with local/farm grocery type items and, of course, many varieties of the namesake "pops" (yes, wood sticks suitable for fort-building are included with each "pop").

No fresh brewed coffee (minus a point there to be sure) but definitely a nice, comfortable space, nice people, good food and respectable espresso drinks. If you're not a Tryst fan and need a decent coffee, in Adams Morgan, and without enough time to amble four blocks west to 14th, this is your best bet.