Promising the best coffee and tea in the world, Rosey's Tea and Coffee - an immaculate cafe in the basement of Rosey Jekes clothing store on Lebanon Street - opened for business last week.
The cafe has sparkling green floors and seven small tables inside, with a patio available for outside seating. Plants, including several sunflowers, adorn the windows.
Kenny Fabrikant, who owns the new cafe and Rosey Jekes, said he opened the cafe to create "a warm friendly place for people to have conversation, stir their souls and have great drinks and sandwiches."
Fabrikant said the cafe has the "highest quality coffee and tea available anywhere in the world ... We try to offer things not available in the area." He said the drinks and the sandwiches have the "best" ingredients and are made with the "best" machines.
"It reflects a desire to do it in more of a European way rather than a standard American way," he said. He said he has wanted to open a cafe for about 10 years, and found the perfect co-owner in Rod Griffin from Washington, D.C.
The cafe has several daily sandwich specialties that cost from $3.25 to $4.75, baked goods that run from 75 cents to $2, and drinks. A single cappuccino costs $1.85 and a cup of coffee costs 75 cents. A wide selection of teas is also available.
Both coffee and tea are available by the pound and half-pound.
"You can spent $1.50 and sit around for 45 minutes and no one bugs you," Fabrikant said. "We're not throwing anybody out and we're going to have lots of reading material. We also hope to have some poetry readings and hope to have some jazz nights."
There is no smoking in the cafe, Fabrikant said. He said he did not run into any problems with the Town of Hanover in opening the cafe, because Rosey Jekes has been in business for almost 20 years.
Rosey's Tea and Coffee is the second cafe to open in Hanover in the past year; last April the Dirt Cowboy Cafe opened on Main St.
Dirt Cowboy owner Thomas Guerra said he thinks Hanover could support several cafes.
"There is a lot of room in the market," Guerra said. "I'm sure it's going to do well. They're good business people. I think we'll probably help each other out in the long run because the more cafes, the merrier."
The cafe is opened Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday the cafe is opened from 7:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. Hours on Sunday are from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
