I am obsessed with [tag]Java Jive on Ponce.[/tag] Located across from the [tag]Clairmont Lounge[/tag], I have now been here only four times in the 6 years I have lived here. And all my visits have been within the last 4 weeks. In fact, I am here now drinking my cup of decaf fabulous coffee and drinking my orange juice and I have ordered the Mediterranean Scramble which consists of big fat portabello mushrooms, red peppers, spinach, sun dried tomatoes, and feta. Ah, it is here! (and look at it) Okay. I’ll be right back after I finish eating this.
Okay, I am finished. (You really can’t tell how fast I eat, now can you?) So, anyway, I want to own this place. Everything is beyond retro – vintage appliances, vintage lamps, vintage coffee pots, fabulous old signs about colas, baking powder, and of course Sunbeam bread. Things date back to the1930′s 40′s and 50′s and the music matches the decor. People who come and wait on the weekends wait in the appliance section – therefore if you come, you can see cool yellow and pink ovens. Well, actually all the appliances are ovens although one oven looks like a dishwasher, but it is not.
It is obvious that I love the look and feel of this place, but I also really love the food. It ain’t a cheap breakfast place (between $8.00 and $9.00 for the egg dishes) – but it is so damn good and worth every penny. The scrambles are full of stuff, the grits are tasty and the biscuits – well, the biscuits are truly the best in town (and rated that way).
So, I know now that all of you thousands of readers will be here everyday…but seriously, if you have not ever visited the little blue building on Ponce, come NOW.
*790 Ponce De Leon Avenue: Hours are Tues-Fri 8am-2pm and Sat and Sun 9am to 2:30pm. CASH ONLY (but they have an ATM. )
Little Girl gives it Java Jive 4 big paws up.
wifi?
wifi free from a business neighbor
I was in there back in 2001, and they have old Fiestaware plates on the wall. My friend Karen tried to tell the checkout girl that the Orange Fiestaware plate behind her was actually radioactive because of the uranium oxide contained in the pigment that’s baked onto the plate’s surface. The girl tried to tell Karen that this little tidbit was just an urban legend. What she didn’t know was that Karen was months away from completing her doctorate in Nuclear Engineering at Ga Tech.
We decided not to press the issue, but it was funny (to me) to walk away knowing how REALLY correct we were and how REALLY wrong the checkout girl was.
There is much info about this particular issue on the web. A geiger counter will record radioactivity due to the uranium oxide, true, but the levels are so low that it does not pose a health issue. That is where the urban legend comes into play.
I’d go to Java Jive if they’d open before 9:00am on the weekends. I’m a “morning person,” often at work by 7:00am, so I can’t wait until 9:00am to eat.
I was just amused at being able to prove such a random point merely because I just randomly happened to have a friend with THAT much knowledge at my side…. :~)