Lestat's

Lestat’s is your ordinary neighborhood coffee shop. It’s located in Normal Heights, an all-in-all a family-oriented area. What is not ordinary about it is that it is the only all-night, 24 hr coffee shop in San Diego. So in the wee-hours on a Thursday, you get your usual misfits, rejects, computer geeks, and black-pleather goth-chic -- people on the fringe of society – and graduate students. It is an interesting community Lestat’s has created here in the middle of ranch-style houses and pueblos --
There is nothing quite like the mish-mesh sound of foaming milk from an espresso machine and Celtic death-metal at 3am…“suppose I have to resurrect you, from the fire of hell… die! die! die!… (Bagpipe solo~)”
You see the same people in the coffee shop-circuit – the self-medicating clientele circulating though the coffee shops. The people that got shoved out the door of Wired at 10:30 or kicked out of Kensington’s Café at 11pm all ended up congregating here.
It may be difficult to imagine how Celtic death metal, goth interior could be the ideal place to study -- but immerse all this in caffeine and coat it with a thick layer of 3am-haze: now we’re all one big happy family. A big happy family is not a far off description -- the community there is surprisingly tight knit. People will look over your shoulder to see what you are working on on your laptop, perhaps even give you some suggestions of improvement. It’s like the Olive Garden – “when you’re there, you’re family!”