Fiction

Businesses that manage to serve both coffee and liquor tend to go hard on the ambience, as evidenced by shops like Fiction that keep customers comfortable from dawn till dusk. The things that make Fiction a cozy place to camp out with a laptop—classy couches with leather and velvet upholstery, dark wood trim and patterned wallpaper, and a glass bead chandelier that pulls the personal library aesthetic together—are the same things that give the bar an edgy feel come evening. If your goal is productivity, you’ll have no issues before 4 p.m., when the space is rarely crowded.