Starbucks is The Man, keeps local java joints down
A war between independent and corporate coffeehouses has been raging on Chapel Street ever since international java conglomerate Starbucks first set up shop at the corner of High and Elm Streets in 2001, challenging the locally-owned, three-decade-old Atticus Bookstore Cafe just down the block. When Cafe Bottega marked its own territory across from the touristy New Haven Green in 2004, Starbucks responded by opening another location in the same complex on Church Street three years later.
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