Mocha Mott’s co-owner Meredith Aldrich was in the midst of making a bacon and avocado bagel Sunday morning when longtime customer Nicole Shank handed her a bouquet of yellow tulips.
Sunday will be Islanders’ last chance for coffee, cake and kindness at Mocha Mott’s in Vineyard Haven, which is closing its doors in advance of the building’s sale to Island coffee chain Toccopuro.
Tim Dobel and Meredith Aldrich, co-owners of the Mocha Mott’s coffee shops in Oak Bluffs and Vineyard Haven, are winding up their partnership after 24 years and putting their Vineyard Haven building on the market so that Mr. Dobel can retire.
In his lighthearted new book, Mocha Mott's co-owner Tim Dobel proposes a new set of rules for golf that he hopes will remind readers to maintain a sense of humor about the game.
On Friday night Mocha Mott's in Vineyard Haven began hosting what is to be an ongoing series of musical coffeehouse events. “Long live Mocha Mott’s music!” Adam Lipsky said after playing his first set of jazz. “I hope this continues for years.”
At 4 a.m. on a cold November morning, Circuit avenue is empty. Not a car or a person is in sight. Just a fierce northeasterly wind ripping down the street. All the shops are closed up tight, except for one: Mocha Mott’s, where a dim light glows from its location below street level. Walking down the metal stairs, the vibration of loud music can be felt through your shoes. Inside, Scott Hershowitz, who is dressed in long shorts, a short-sleeved button-down shirt and turquoise high tops, is bopping around as though it is noon in the height of summer.
On the Vineyard where art galleries abound and artists abound even more, there is, it seems, art everywhere. But it’s not just traditional galleries that showcase art. Venturing off the tracks, one can encounter not only art that enchants but artists who do so as well.
This month the work of Chris Hughes is being highlighted at Mocha Mott’s in Vineyard Haven and the work of Edie Yoder at the Chilmark Library.
