Kahwa coffee opened its first a cross-bay location in the bottom of the Rivergate tower in Downtown Tampa several months ago, primarily serving business folks during the week. Just this month, the local bean roaster opened another location just blocks away in the bottom of the Element residential building – capitalizing on a different clientele (it’s also open later). I stopped in on Friday, ordered an iced coffee, and enjoyed it under a bright yellow umbrella on their patio area. What more do you need? High quality coffee, pleasant atmosphere, and endless people-watching. Isn’t that what coffee drinking is about, when done for leisure? I would also consider it for a study spot – it wasn’t busy or loud inside.
I had to capture the view from outside. It was too perfectly a trompe l’oeil of Tampa urban density.