Carving Time Coffee A Cafe Belonging to Your Life

Sculpting in time Cafe was founded on November 28, 1997, when Zhuang Zai and kittens, who had just graduated from university, had just returned from remote Xinjiang. Feeling the sometimes quiet and magnificent natural scenery of Xinjiang, they came up with the idea of opening a cafe and living a cafe-like life.

The name of the cafe took a lot of trouble, and finally chose this poetic name: carving time. "carving time" comes from the title of the film autobiography written by Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky. The main idea is that the art of film is to record the passage of time through film, and time will leave a mark on people and matter, that is, the meaning of carving time. The meaning of the cafe also comes from this, so that time, people and emotions stay here, leaving good memories.

The cafe was originally located on Chengfu Street between the East Gate of Peking University and the West Gate of Tsinghua University. The Halloween Book Park of the academic bookstore is on this side street, so scholars, publishers, artists and Guang Ming often come in and out here, teasing each other, debating, chatting, and having a strong flavor of life. Later, due to urban planning, the carving time moved to the south gate of the current Weigong Village University of Technology. Outside the south-facing window are rows of poplars, and the shadows of the trees have a beautiful view with the changes of the four seasons.

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During the day, the sun shines into the house from outside the glass window, and the red Indian curtains leave a shadow that contrasts with the wooden floor. People are bathed in the sun in the coffee shop, and the sound of the ceramic flute is clear and bright, often intoxicated. At night, the hustle and bustle and passion are full of cafes, the natural sounds of Jazz, India and Latin customs, where people communicate and understand each other, or continue the debate in class, when there are lovers of fish in muddy waters gently carrying on their movements, which is a symphony.

Every day, the crowd coming and going in the cafe is a more lovely scenery.

It should be said that one of the features of carving time is that the rows of bookshelves are filled with Chinese and foreign books from all over the world: film, philosophy, literature, advertising and so on. It's like sitting in a picture library all day without anyone bothering you. All you need is a cup of coffee and a refill. It's a real bargain. During the day from Monday to Friday, it is very quiet, you can read books and listen to music freely, and many wonderful jazz and soft piano music can be played by yourself. In its interior furnishings, it is full of elegant and quiet atmosphere, and the windows are clear, which is different from other bars or cafes in Beijing. She is not noisy, but more intellectual. Whether it is the decorations on the walls, pictures, or many good books and magazines on display on the bookshelves, as well as music floating from the air, the most important thing is the scholars, artists, advertisers and so on who come and go, adding to its vitality.

The cafe serves strong Italian espresso Illy Espresso, cappuccino Illy Cappuccino, milk coffee Latte, etc., as well as various specialty drinks. You mustn't miss all kinds of delicious spaghetti, because you can't find another spaghetti in Beijing if you want to eat cheap and authentic spaghetti such as bacon with egg sauce, tuna and garlic spaghetti, and spaghetti with gravy sauce. Homemade cheesecake / Cheese cake, Tira Misu / Tiramisu, blueberry cake / Blue berry cake, muffin / Muffin, etc., all taste delicious and the price is not too expensive. In addition to black coffee, American coffee can be refilled, every month there will be a selection of discounted food for you to choose carefully.

For the sake of coffee glutton is the bounden duty of carving light, for them to drink coffee has become a way of life, drinking gourmet coffee is of course the greatest satisfaction. With the introduction of Italian illy coffee into the carving time Cafe, connoisseurs have loved it. An Italian friend said he was surprised and proud to have the best coffee in his country. The charm of coffee also makes those who have never come into contact with coffee gradually fall in love with coffee, coffee culture and cafes. A Chinese student, everyone calls him "Mr. American", because he comes to drink a cup of American coffee every day, and then refills it, and the coffee shop has become a new world outside the "triangle" of his life.

Sculpture time Cafe is stationed in the capital with its unique, humanistic and intellectual style. It refuses to clone. Just like people's pursuit of life, the coffee shop integrates people's taste and spiritual pursuit of life.

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In addition, the carving time of Weigong Village and Wudaokou opens a small space at the foot of the building to open the "time grocery store"CAT, THE SHOP". The grocery store was born in the early spring of 2002, which is another attempt of carving time on the concept of life. In the process of almost games, it coincides with the original idea-a lifestyle store (LIFE STYLE SHOP) that combines coffee, movies, handicrafts and a large number of books. Here, you can choose your favorite coffee utensils, go home and make a pot of strong coffee, or you can choose arts, blankets or shawls from India or Niebel to decorate your home-from the window, the grocery store is dazzling and staggered, showing the carefulness of the hostess, and the novel furnishings in the shop attract people who come here to drink coffee to stop in front of the cupboard to enjoy another kind of beauty. Now the grocery store has become an independent brand "Life Decoration Collection" in many cities.

Any matter placed in space has its own life-it is precisely because of their existence that it gives time a tangible memory.

In Europe, cafe culture has been a way of life for people for two hundred years. In the 19th century, many literary and art works were done in cafes, and many cafes in Austria have distant historical stories, and the owner will even tell you where Mozart sat at that time.

An Austrian poet described the cafe as follows: a good cafe should be bright, but not gorgeous, there should be a certain smell in the space, but not only the bitter smell of smoke, the owner should be a bosom friend, but not excessively courteous. Guests who come here every day should know each other, but they don't have to talk all the time. Coffee has a price, but you don't have to pay for the time you sit here.

Carving time is such a cafe, a cafe that belongs to your life!