Chez Alice

princeton has a particular relationship with coffee, shaped by the rhythms of a university town where the need for a good cup is serious and frequent. chez alice, on palmer square west, sits in one of the more walkable, architecturally grounded corners of downtown princeton, which already sets a certain tone before you even walk in. what keeps people coming back, by most accounts, is consistency, the sense that this place isn't coasting on foot traffic from the square. if you're spending a morning in princeton, it earns your time the honest way. the coffee is the point. nothing here is a side note to a bigger agenda. for an afternoon espresso before you loop back through the square, this is the stop worth planning around.