Cora's Coffee Shoppe

• Cuisine(s): Continental, Italian
  Hours: Daily 7am-3pm, Tue-Sat 5pm-0am
  Price: $$
• Payment Types: MasterCard, Visa, American Express
  Features: Patio/Sidewalk Dining, Takeout
  Serving: Breakfast, Lunch
• Alcohol: None
  Reservations: Not Accepted
  Parking: Lot Available

Description

A few years ago, Cora's was still a crusty, hash-brown-intensive beach café. Bruce Marder, owner of the pricey Italian restaurant Capo next door, transformed the place into a lunch counter out of a GQ shoot: a patio shaded with crimson bougainvillea, a burbling Tuscan fountain, the distant crashing of the surf - sometimes you want a chef's salad, and sometimes you want an insalata ­caprese made with farmers-market tomatoes and ­oozingly creamy burrata cheese; sometimes you need ham 'n' eggs the morning after, and sometimes delicate petals of San Daniele prosciutto. Cora's hamburgers are magnificent, drippy things made of coarsely chopped, beyond-prime Wagyu cow, and for dessert, there is occasionally an intense homemade burnt-caramel ice cream bitter enough to make a 10-year-old child weep.