Photo by Café Zeppelin
Photos by Café Zeppelin, Isabel Álvarez Ortiz, Laís Amaral, Nubia Londono and Eric Ganko via Google Maps.
Café Zeppelin is the Laureles café for people who want the evening rather than the morning. It doesn't open until noon on weekdays and 2pm on weekends, and it stays open past 10pm — which makes it less of a breakfast stop and more of a place you drift into once the day is already underway, and stay in until it's properly dark.
The menu moves with the hours. Early on it's a café: coffee, pastries, sandwiches. Later it's a bar: cocktails, wine and beer. That shift is the whole point of the place, and it means Zeppelin works just as well for an unhurried afternoon coffee as it does for a drink that turns into three, without you ever having to change tables.
There's seating indoors and out, and the music sits at a moderate volume — present, but not so loud that you have to lean across the table to be heard. It's pet friendly, so the dog comes too.
You'll find it a block from the Segundo Parque, which puts it right in the middle of the Laureles you actually want to be in.
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Worth a visit? What's good nearby, and how do you get there? Kathe answers from this verified local catalog, not the open internet.
They'll see who you are and what you need, not a cold "hola".