LAist: Nova Express Cafe to Close This Week

triceratops111

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:38:46 -0800

This is the first I heard of this... two days AFTER the doors permanently closed! I wasn't an every week kind of customer, but I sure had my share of Nova's fantastic chicken pesto sandwiches. In fact, their food was far, far better than it has any reason to be. I sometimes wonder if the cartoony sci-fi atmosphere kept many people from taking it seriously as a place to eat and drink as well as to hang out post-rave. Anyway, this is very depressing. And I hope the Italian sandwich shop that's moving in isn't a chain. Damiano's right down the block has plenty good Italian sandwiches, thank you very much. P.S. @ iamnot07 -- I suppose the "financial realties" of modern capitalism would dicatate that all coffee places should turn into Starbucks. But is that really the kind of city you want to live in? Not me, man. Not me.

iam_not07

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:00:54 -0800

I must admit, I find it quite ironic that this restaurants mission was to "make the claim that a unique artistic cafe is an important part of the cultural ecology of the modern urban landscape." Wake up call: It's absolutely not important, by any stretch of the imagination! In fact, any business that caters to sci-fi geeks and the minimum wage/underemployed/unemployed demographic in general is destined to fail when the financial realities of the real world kick in!

iam_not07

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:27:20 -0800

sarahfenix

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:48:01 -0800

Live long and prosper, my Nova.

fabricio

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:35:00 -0800

I was just around there yesterday... I was going to go in but... The only place that has empanadas that has no relation to Argentina. A little hint... Next door is Damiano's Pizza that has Fugazzetta (argentine style onion pizza).

spoon

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:12:35 -0800

This is really sad.

damian_z

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:56:24 -0800

Great Cthulhu! This town is going to hell in a handbasket, one old-school institution at a time. First Max's became the Dime, then this? What's happened to the Fairfax I used to know and love? For christ's sake, hang on, Domiano's.

tristen

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:19:02 -0800

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Markland

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:45:24 -0800

Sucks. Its a cool coffee shop I'd frequent if closer by, and one of the last of the coffee shops I'd hang out at when I first moved to L.A. But wouldn't three hours into Thursday be 3am?

Celaphane

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:26:08 -0800

NooooOOOOOOoooooooOOOOOoooooo!!!!!!!!! *dies a little inside*