Buvette

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Buvette is a recurring venue in the Collected Agenda archive, appearing 1 times across 1 issues between October 07, 2024 and October 07, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “I go to Buvette with my boyfriend for breakfast, it’s a little French place in the West Village”. It most often appears alongside After Hours, Agnes Enkh, AIA New York.

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  • Category: Venues
  • Mention count: 1
  • Issue count: 1
  • First seen: October 07, 2024
  • Last seen: October 07, 2024

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October 07, 2024 · Original source
I go to Buvette with my boyfriend for breakfast, it’s a little French place in the West Village, it’s so packed we can barely sit. I like to lurk in places like this on times like Tuesday mornings and think about who everyone probably is. There’s no reason for me to be here. Safe (perhaps?) to say the same for everyone else. There’s a woman taking business calls so loudly on the patio behind us, giggling as she bosses someone around in a voice so high pitched. She’s being loud on purpose because she wants to seem important. As a shy child, I would make crude jokes particularly loudly to my few close friends in the proximity of others so that knowledge I possessed a personality might be inadvertently gleaned. I have always been able to recognize this trick. I like the people sitting next to us, Italian couple, they order croque madame to share, and then ask to move inside, they're very chic, old. It’s easy to trace the rest of their day in my imagination. There’s a made up trajectory for them that makes sense, and it’s appealing. The woman in the bathroom line is also on the phone, very concerned about who is going to watch her dog. I order steamed eggs and salmon. Mint tea. etc.