Okay, so here are some categories for which The Ol’ Factory did not win a Weekly Reader “Best Of” award (I guess we’ll just have to try harder next year):

Best Beer Selection
  
Everything from PBR (in bottles) to DT (Delirium Tremens–voted the World’s Best Beer), from Bud to Belgians, from Corona to Chimay.  Yup, we lost this award.

Best Coffee
We use the exceptional coffees of Intelligentsia Roasters (voted the Country’s Best Coffee Roaster).  Organic, Fair-Trade, sustainable, and absolutely phenomenal-tasting beans.  While other local shops have a reputation for buying the cheapest beans available, or for thinking organic is “b.s.” but offering “just enough so that they can say they have organic,” Intelligentsia was founded upon the sustainable and organic philosophy.  Obviously, so are we.
(Didn’t win this award either.)

Best Coffee House
Well, just check the photos throughout this website.  Does this look like any other coffee house you’ve seen?
(Nope, some other place won.)

Best Place to Talk Politics
Are you kidding?
(Darn it all.)

Yessirree, guess we’ve got our work cut out for us next year…