Open Eye Café offers elegant Art Tea

Art Tea from the Fujian Province...

Green tea leaves are hand picked & then sewn by hand with flowers grown in Fu’An, Fujian Province … Beautiful & delicious!

2 types available to drink or to bring home:

Jasmine Fairy Maidens
This tea is gently flavored with jasmine flowers and a tall container is necessary to display the lanky Jasmine flower as it unfolds. Tones of Jasmine accent the sweet and vegetal flavor of this tea.

Seven Sons CongratulatingThe green and white tea buds are pressed into a bulb with a red flower. When placed into hot water, the bulb blossoms revealing the red flower surrounded by a white crown. The light tea is a pink color.

Carrboro Coffee Company - Get Local - Get Fresh!

Serving coffee, roasted daily, from Chapel Hill/ Carrboro's only artisan roaster -
Carrboro Coffee Company !
Small batches, roasted fresh every day on site, ensure you get only
the freshest, most cared for coffee around.
Roasted in Carrboro, passionately handcrafted by roasters with over 25 years experience.
It doesn't get more local!

Free PBS Community Film Screening at Open Eye Cafe

Groundbreaking Free Community Screenings of PBS Programming Launches Fourth Season in Chapel Hill / Carrboro at Open Eye Café.
Community Cinema Screening Series Brings Local Perspective to National Issues with Feature Films on Racial Injustice, Gang Warfare, America's National Debt and the Military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Policy, Among Others.
The Independent Television Service (ITVS), co-presenter of the Emmy Award–winning PBS series Independent Lens, today announced a fourth consecutive season of its groundbreaking Community Cinema program.
A free monthly screening series engaging communities through film, Community Cinema connects people with local resources and organizations, such as Open Eye Café, on important social issues in more than 50 cities across the country.
Once a month from September through May, Community Cinema presents preview screenings of nine Independent Lens episodes in key cultural and civic spaces across the country.

The Community Cinema screenings in Chapel Hill / Carrboro take place at Open Eye Café in Downtown Carrboro. Each screening is followed by a lively panel discussion or other presentation that showcases local community organizations, resources and opportunities to get involved.

Screenings take place about one month prior to the national television broadcast of each film on PBS. The Film Series will be shown at Open Eye Café every 2nd Thursday of the month Panel discussion to follow. More info

The Learning Series: Coffee Classes & more at Open Eye Cafe

The Open Eye Café & Carrboro Coffee Company Present: The Learning Series Coffee Classes & More at Open Eye Café Every 3rd Thursday of the month @ 7pm An Hour or so of Facts & Fun! Open to Our Community, Free of Charge Topics will cycle thru the months with offerings such as:
Coffee Tasting 101
Coffee Equipment & Home Use
Coffee Cupping
Espresso 101 at Home & in the Café
Tea Tasting 101

Please RSVP to coffeescott@gmail.com as space is limited.

Back Patio Now Open !!!

Come enjoy the new outdoor space provided for the community by the Open Eye Café. The Patio is open during normal Cafe business hours. It is located out "back" along Roberson street (entrance from inside the Cafe only). Simply follow the hallway (and signs) as it curves to the left.