"202 : Mi second home"

Santiago has a lot attractions for the visitors. Famous and different some fewer acquaintances, but very interesting anyway. This time, I they want to present a place that I recommend, a place that I have considered to be “my second home”.

Coffee 202 is born of the need of independence and freedom of one of my best friends, Fernando Plá, who was employed for many years at night shift of work, and he was exhausted. This reason, together with a personal motivation was what lead to him to taking the challenge of doing this new business. This way, in the summer of 2008 and with a mixture of 80 % of irresponsibility and 20 % of pride, Fernando communicated to his family the decision to leave his job like as employee, to be free and independent.

While in parallel at the construction of what will be the cultural center gabriela mistral "GAM", in his back part there exists residential life, enviable constructions and this small coffee, to only steps of the successful neighborhood Lastarria, located in Estados Unidos 202. His friends were the most important thing to begin, from designing the graph, ideas for the food and beer offer, to design the tables with the collage style, cleaning, painting, advertising and working also (in my case, for 3 years like administrator of weekends), everything with very much love, creativity and little money.

It begins 202 with many monetary difficulties, of clients and history, since the previous owners were office workers who never dedicated to the business, being this place a dead point, for what the first thing for us was to find a name, " Coffee 202 " it is due to the address, we were looking something simple and that the people could remember easily.
Then it happened something importante: it was Facebook's boom, they all wanted to be connected and it was a platform that helped very much and the incorporation of the beers of Liter was probably what defined this place more as a Brewery than as Coffee.

Already stable, new clients and friends began to approach the place, attracted by the music and probably for the personalized attention as if we were in the living of our house counting our sorrow and happy moments. Forgetting the noise and recognizing every day his neighbors, this small corner already celebrates 3 years of flavors, histories and under profile. This place offers pizzas, quesadillas, sándwiches and by night variety of beer, with the national favorite Kross in Shop format.

Coffee 202 has been a big sacrifice, but also a history of friendship and companionship, I have known big friends, we have realized events as the secret friend in Christmas, the birthdays, the projection of videos, movies, football matches and " OPEN 202 ", it´s evenings outdoors in parks with roast, water pumps and liters of beer and friendship.
Already it goes 3 years in this place, with a captive public who has approached across the “mouth in mouth”, Coffee 202 bets for the conversation, and the good music and sometimes live music. It works of Monday to Sunday and Fridays the conversation extends always.

A corner re-lived, Santiago gains a new place for relax and I won a second home.
All of you are invited to be part of this family.