Up all night

Popped into the java room yest. to take shelter from the storm. And what before my wondering eyes did appear, but Candy Liu’s coffee cocktail, the mudslide. Move over double, skim latte. This potent drink is one funky monkey. Made with chocolate and caramel sauce, French roast coffee and equal parts Kahlua and Balieys it’s a desert/coffee/nightcap in one. The java room is Chelmsford'd answer to greenwich village. They have poetry readings, live jazz (tomorrow night the legendary Paul Combs is in the house) coffee from George Howell’s Terroir co., (the saintly founder of the coffee connection) and now a wine bar. What more could a frustrated suburbanite or sanguine soccer mom want? The bar, which opened this fall is tucked into the far corner near a piano. It’s small and perfect. Bloggers bring your laptops and sip a glass of 14 Hands merlot, your boss isn’t watching. But caffeinated cocktails (like the way that rolls off the tongue), is something starbucks and DD can’t touch. JR knows how to cure the ails of february. See ya at the bar.