This weekend I went exploring in Deep Ellum with some friends and found two things. A new coffee shop. I am always on the hunt for a new place to either relax and read book while sipping on my usual order of Chai tea, or to hunker down and crank out my loads of school work. This place, Murray Street Coffee, is definitely in the runnings.
When you first enter you are met with three levels of funky furniture, loft-like space, and of course the smell of freshly brewed coffee.
The quirky knick-knacks, large pieces of art, and board games are what got me.
After we studied, we drove around for a little bit. We found a lot of mural art and graffiti paintings on the sides of buildings. They are literally around every corner that you pass.
I thought it was fascinating how different each mural was and how they all represented something.
I have always loved art, but I think I created a soft spot for these colorful, personal, and eclectic self expressions of art.
Deep Ellum is a tucked away place where Dallas embraces its history. This area embraces vintage architecture, energetic music and dining, and cozy hip retail. To give some background, in 1982, Darwin Payne described Deep Ellum in Ilustrated History as "the one spot in the city that needs no daylight saving time because there is no bedtime...It is the only place recorded on earth where business, religion, gambling and stealing goes on at the same time without friction."
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