Cafe Iterum

you're on monsignor albert a jacobbe road, where east boston still feels like it's finding itself between the harbor and everything else. cafe iterum sits here quietly, the kind of place that doesn't need to announce what it's doing. the name means "again" in latin, which makes sense once you've been there. you come back. the coffee comes from people who know what they're doing with beans, though they're not making speeches about single origins or processing methods. just good coffee, made right. the space has that lived-in feeling that takes time to develop, not something you can design from scratch. east boston gets overlooked by people racing toward the north end or back bay, but that's their mistake. iterum benefits from being slightly off the beaten path. fewer tourists, more neighbors. the kind of regulars who don't need to order because the staff already knows. best time might be…