Woodstar Café

60 Masonic St.
Northampton, MA
(413) 585-9777

We've got Woodstar's strategy nailed: they start you out with healthy low-cal dishes like the Emily's Favorite sandwich, named for Emily Dickinson: herb foccacia with roasted red pepper and eggplant spread, smoked tofu, mescalun greens, sprouts, tomato and onion. Then when you've earned yourself some "calorie offsets," they whip out the French chicken and goat cheese sandwich and the éclairs, coconut cake or Black Bottom banana cream tart. All breads are made in-house, including boiled bagels, handmade Danish, pain du chocolat and olive ciabatta. Don't plan to go to this coffee house and sit for hours nursing one cappuccino and musing over the Symbolistes; from breakfast through dinnertime it's so busy that there's little idle space.