Jauense Confeitaria - Batel

jauense gets the pastry-and-coffee balance right, which sounds simple until you've watched a dozen places get it wrong. sitting on alameda dr. carlos de carvalho in bigorrilho, it draws the kind of curitibanos who take both sides of that equation seriously. the neighborhood runs quietly upscale without being cold about it, and jauense fits that register well. you're not here to prove anything about specialty coffee to anyone. you're here because the confeitaria side of the operation is as considered as the coffee side, and that combination is rarer than it should be. local word on the place has stayed consistently warm, which in a city as coffee-literate as curitiba means something. start with whatever's in the vitrine that morning.