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Turkey Native Plans New Coffee Shop ‘Kaahve’ for Main Street at East Avenue
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A new coffee shop is planned for the former 10,000 Villages space at the northeast corner of Main Street and East Avenue. Esref Cezzar told NewCanaanite.com that he plans to open ‘Kaahve’—that’s Turkish for ‘coffee’—in about two months at 96 Main St. It will be “a friendly place where people come in for a little socializing, sit down and chat and [I’m] hoping they will drink coffee, too,” said Cezzar, a Stamford resident who came to the United States from his native Turkey in 2002. His first job here in the States was as a Starbucks manager, a position he held for a few years before taking a job with CVS. Asked why he’s chosen to open a coffee shop, Cezzar said: “Coffee, I like it so much myself and I wanted to have a business that is fun for me, [where I can] interact with people, talk to them and they are coming in and having fun.”
Asked for her thoughts on the prospect of Kaahve’s opening, New Canaan Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Tucker Murphy said: “We’re very pleased to know that such a visible commercial space will be re-activated by this small coffee shop with an owner on site, and wish Esref the very best in his venture.”
The space has been vacant since 10,000 Villages left in May.