4.1
Good
28 Reviews
1 Saarinen Circle, Dulles · 4.18 miles
“The doors were still locked when I sat down. It was around 5:42, and I picked the seat for the outlet, not the coffee. Israel came out at about 5:51. Urban Crave opens at 6. He said good morning, asked if I needed anything, saw me plugged into their counter before they were even open, and let it be. That is nine minutes before his shift owed anybody anything, spent making a stranger with a phone feel like a customer instead of a problem. I ordered coffee and nothing else, so treat this as a review of a person and a bar stool. He is from Ethiopia. He moves at a pace that has no relationship to an airport, and he adjusts to whoever sits down in front of him instead of running one script at everybody. You are at ease before you have decided to be. At 5:51 in the morning, in a terminal, that is not a small thing. The coffee came over ice in a pint glass on a long granite bar. It did the job. Practical: Concourse A, past security, opens at 6. The bar has outlets, which at Dulles is worth planning around. If you have an early departure and time to kill, sit there instead of at the gate, and ask for Israel. Airport service usually comes with a timer running on it. This did not. The coffee was incidental.”
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