This place has always been a fun stop. It's cute, decorated not like any other coffee shop but instead with kitschy 50s/60s era maybe up to early 80s, pre-modern tech. Think of landlines, juke boxes, I love Lucy tv, grandma style kitchen tables with the aluminum base (like old style diners), drive-ins and car-hops and you'll have a general sense of the eclectic style.
The employees, likely from the nearby college, are friendly and patient and work quickly to get the orders out.
The coffee and non-coffee beverages have been a mix for me: sometimes incredible, other times not so much, but I still like coming here for the atmosphere alone, as weird as they may be for a coffee fiend like me. The food, the couple times I've indulged, is good and there's a nice mix of offerings.
This was a gas station previously and the new owners have made use of that with the glass garage doors that open to a nice outdoor seating area and using the front and side for more outdoor seating. They even managed to squeeze in a drive-thru for those eschewing the busier traffic at other coffee shops in the area.
Poly's Place, locally owned, is a unique coffee shop in a mostly residential area. It's worth the experience. read more