It’s a short walk from Fox Pt to Small Point Cafe downtown on Westminster. Great place to work and you can buy tea by either the cup or the pot (pot not on the menu, but they’ll do it for you). Not a huge variety of teas but the English breakfast and the Darjeeling are both nice.

for something like this you probably want to prioritize somewhere sizable to make sure you can actually get a seat. now that coffee exchange is back open inside i would say plunk down there, or if it doesn’t strictly have to be a coffee place there’s a good bit of space at the seven stars on point st. the bolt inside the risd museum is usually my go-to again because of its size, but when classes are in session it’s a bit of crapshoot whether or not it’s packed.

Schastea on Broadway :)

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The Shop recently opened the inside for seating again and I’m pretty sure they have free wifi.

Also possibly Tea In Sahara.

Is the library worth considering?

Thanks! Is there a lot of seating in The Shop? Hard to tell from pictures on google

Excellent I'll try those, thank you!

No, it’s very small.

Thanks! Trying it out tomorrow

Possibly..I've always concentrated better in cafes, but I haven't really been to the Brown libraries yet

White electric

Seven stars is great, but doesn’t have WiFi just a heads up

I would say Coffee exchange because there’s wifi and a second floor that’s quiet and good for getting work done.

New Harvest

Not Providence but I recently went to the Brewed Awakenings on Bald Hill Road for the first time and was shocked at how much space and seating they had inside

edit: I still recommend the space but don’t buy anything there, see comment below

That’s the guy whose POS was rounding up peoples bills by .02 .03 cents and pocketing it. He can afford the space and his coffee should be 1/2 price.

Schastea on Broadway sounds like exactly what you’re looking for!

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Rise and Shine

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They're already going to mooch a seat that could go to multiple paying customers per hour. The least they can do is use their own phone as a hotspot.

>coffee exchange is back open inside

It's reopened with a whole new space on the second floor! So, between people who got out of the habit of going there during the pandemic, and those who don't know about the new space upstairs, it's likely to offer more available space with less pressure to move on than it has in decades. And it has teas and food.

I also came back to suggest Small Format! It is small as well but has great drinks and vibes.

Lol - no one is making bank adding $.02 to checks that average $5-8. Unless he built the POS system himself, not sure how it would be his fault even? I could see someone building one applying sales tax to each item vs the total bill which could add a cent per item depending on how prices lined up.

I liked the tea at Dave’s on S Main, cute space but not very big. I’ve never seen it packed but it may well get fairly busy (as any coffee shop would)

Café Zara

I work out of new harvest and have enjoyed that

Riffraff. All. Damn. Day.

A second for Rise & Shine on Smith Hill, Holden St. Nice people. And tea. And wifi. Open Mon-Sat til 2.

Second Tea in Sahara - love that place! But part of the fun is showing up to see if he's decided to open that day or not - place has the most hilariously random hours