The mayor drank here

There's a new coffee shop in O'Bryonville that has more than one claim to fame in his two short weeks of existence. The Coffee Shop on Madison had Mayor Mark Mallory as a customer Tuesday. It's also the only place east of the Rocky Mountains to use beans roasted by Café Moto, a small San Diego company that roasts organic and Fair Trade beans. Owner Pat Wynne tasted some Café Moto coffee while on vacation and decided to use it.

“It’s just really smooth, with none of that kind of burnt aftertaste some coffees have,” said barista Kathy Schmitz.

The shop also serves pastries and cookies made by local bakers and others from Zingerman’s Delicatessen in Ann Arbor, Mich. Managers Schmitz and Elaine Potter also make sandwiches, toast bagels and English muffins, etc.

The store, at 2030 Madison Road, sits between Hemptations and From the Ridiculous to the Sublime. It opens at 6:30 a.m. every day. They’re still figuring out consistent closing hours, but Schmitz says right now it’s usually open until at least 9 p.m.

The shop has a MySpace page, but no Web site yet. But here’s one for the bean company: www.cafemoto.com.

But we digress. The politically interesting, maybe, part of this little new-business tale is the mayor's drinking partner - The Dean of Cincinnati, who blogs at www.cincinnatibeacon.com. They talked about the neo-Nazis, marijuana, literacy, Jeff Berding, according to The Dean's story on the blog.