Café Irvine
Order a cortado and a butter croissant. The small counter fills up by 9, but at 8 it's just the accountants from upstairs and someone's aunt reading the Times. Grab the corner seat. You're in MacArthur's office park, but nobody here acts like it.
Butter croissant and a cortado. The pastries rotate daily. Arrive before 8:30 if you want the good ones still warm.
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