Jive with java at Jitter Beans Café

Jitter Beans is an eatery and internet café tucked away on Main Street in Marlborough, New Hampshire. They boast an all vegetarian menu and also sell organic fair trade coffee.

The eatery is enclosed with a crooked wrought iron fence and outdoor seating, which is suitable in the warm weather, or even a brisk fall day. People can place their orders at the counter right as they walk into the café. The menu includes items such as "tuna salad", pastries, muffins, veggie wraps, and an array of different sandwiches and salads. I sampled the "tuna salad" sandwich with Mango Bubble tea. The sandwich was garnished with a bed of red lettuce - instead of the less nutritional iceberg - tomatoes, and onions. These provide all of the fixings for a delicious sandwich. They also had Gulden's spicy brown mustard at the condiment bar, which was complementary to the vegan-friendly sourdough bread. Bubble tea is an item that I was ecstatic to find. It is a sweetened tea with large tapioca pearls, which are drank out of a large straw. It is typical in Asian countries, and usually made with milk, but Jitter Beans had a soy option. I am usually a java freak, but I haven't had Bubble tea in two years, so I indulged myself with the treat.

I went on this trip solo and would have never found the place had it not been with the help of my GPS, but getting lost in the country just added to the ambiance of finding the place. I got a full meal for $10.00, with my sandwich costing $7.00, and my drink $3.00. It looked small to begin with, but by the end of the meal I was full.

In addition to great food at reasonable prices for a vegetarian eatery (there is a place back home in Pennsylvania with similar menu options and prices), Jitter Beans also had an exchange library, where people can take and leave books, board games, activity books and crayons, and Internet availability.

If I lived closer to the café I would go there for evening study sessions in the serene atmosphere of wooden tables decorated with vintage New Hampshire postcards and abstract jazz paintings gracing the calm peaches-and-cream walls. The counter girl explained to me that Jitter Beans was a deli prior to becoming a full-blown vegetarian-vegan eatery about two-and-a-half years ago.

I got a coffee card in case I return someday and a vegan strawberry passionate fruit muffin for the road.