Easy… make it a law that in the official pronunciation of Worcester, the speaker must over emphasize the R. It doesn’t matter which R in Worcester. It will piss off everbody

Thank you so much. I am also "high functioning" myself.

Is there a way we can meet?

They have great reciprocity, too. My wife and I have memberships and it gets us into Heritage Gardens at the Cape for free each year.

Quick, someone open the Espresso Bar again, I could use a late night pot of coffee and a Forced Fed Shovelhead show.

Ah, the memories.

I share your dismay, I smoked many a cigarette at the coffee kingdom.

I'm very high functioning but I'll be happy to.

Changing the pronunciation of the town from Wih-stir to War-chest-er to appease the tourists!

Chandler Street is next for this wonderful reconstruction

I haven't been there yet, but inhouse coffee is usually open late.

And Meraki is cool and opens only late, wife and I had a cappuccino and dessert down there near midnight last weekend. So there are options, but my go to for espresso is New Tradition and for Beans Acoustic Java, but I only go there in the mornings anyways so for me at least this hasn't affected much. We did have the opposite problem at one point, we wanted to check out Bedlam cafe and their coffee, but we went there and found out they were only open at 11am.

Edit: Also in addition to other options people said here, Nu Kitchen, Birch Tree etc. All have good coffee options and are open late and offer exactly what the environment are asking for

This makes me sad! When I used to live in Worcester (15 years ago?) there were a lot of open mic nights at Acoustic Java and Java Hut. RIP.

Just clarifying that Tronic Square is Pleasant/Richmond rather than Plantation/Richmond. Signed, Tronic Square enthusiast

Hang on... That's already in practice...

New Tradition has more of a punk vibe. Like, it's in the same building as a barber shop and a motorcycle shop, last I heard there was a tattoo shop going in, too.

>Acoustic Java does great business in the morning and lunch hours too

but Acoustic Java's original location is literally right next to a university, so it would be reasonable to assume that they could be doing business into the evening there.

>New Tradition does open weirdly late, but they also don't really cater to an office crowd, so it probably doesn't hurt 'em too much.

Who do they cater to? Are they a legit coffee shop? Their hours are just weird, and I have no idea who goes there.

I get the sense that coffee spots are more for working and less for just hanging out nowadays, which also might be a sign of the times.

In any case, Redemption Rock is open late and on weekends, too.

City: put your trash out at 7:30am, not the night before, to avoid pest problems

Also City: comes at 7:05

Yeah it's really nice. It's not just a bunch of colored lights, it's very artful in the way it's laid out and arranged. The botanical garden is just the best in everything it does in the warm months and so it's no surprise that they knocked it out of the park with this winter thing. All of this from a grumpy old man who's wife always says "C'mon you'll enjoy it." and I say " No I won't." Yes, go but don't wait it sells out quick.

Does that Santiago's truck still drive around Main South?

That, but for the entire city to enjoy: much louder and in Arabic and Vitenamese languages, from 1-4am.

Bring back the Paris Cinema.

>I'd bet the money they save from not staffing late offsets the fewer cups sold.

For sure. Most of Brew & Fuel's customers are people who work downtown. Aside from the places that specifically cater to an evening crowd like Beer Garden, the Common area mostly clears out once City Hall and the other offices close. Acoustic Java does great business in the morning and lunch hours too, I mean, they recently (at least relatively speaking) opened the roastery location so they're clearly doing okay.

New Tradition does open weirdly late, but they also don't really cater to an office crowd, so it probably doesn't hurt 'em too much.

Bottom line is if being open later was worth it, those places would be open, but it doesn't, so they're not.

Collinswood K9 in Auburn. Our pup goes there twice a week for daycare and we board him there

Thanks for this. I LOLed hard enough to startle my cat.

No worries. With construction delays and cost overruns, it’s likely to take more like a year.

I think people generally aren't drinking as much coffee after 4pm and hours reflect that. I'd bet the money they save from not staffing late offsets the fewer cups sold.

Does the government in Worcester really regulate trash bags….

Mine do this automatically.