Cafe Nura to Change Name, Serve Wine and Beer

Rimla Javed, owner of the coffee house on Lockwood, says she is making the changes to appeal to her customers.

Rimla Javed, known by her customers as “Remy,” says she’s had a great year and a half since she opened her coffee shop, Cafe Nura, in November of 2010 in Webster Groves. Javed, however, said some customers still have a hard time pronouncing the store’s name. “So we are going to call it Abode Coffee House,” Javed said. “Over the year and a half that I’ve been here I felt that this coffee shop always felt like home away from home and a lot of people had a hard time saying 'Nura,' so I thought the name change was appropriate.” Javed said the name has been officially changed, but a new sign is still on the works. Abode Coffee House will also serve wine and beer, Javed said, pending some permit approvals. “I did it (sell wine and beer) just for…

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Café Nura Feels Like Coffee in Casablanca

With assorted coffee drinks, smoothies and simple, but tasty food, Café Nura makes you want to play it again.

Walk into Café Nura in Webster Groves, and you might momentarily think you're walking into a coffee shop in Casablanca. Four ceiling fans spin lazily above, and the décor is vaguely Middle Eastern. Gauzy curtains are open to reveal a separate room with a couch and chairs. You may even see people in the room smoking a hookah, a tobacco-filled water pipe with hoses for drawing out the smoke. Located at 117 E. Lockwood Ave. in Webster Groves, Café Nura is a coffee shop that also offers cappuccinos, lattes, teas and hot chocolates. You'll also find fruit smoothies, salads, sandwiches, oatmeal and yogurt parfait, and the aforementioned hookah pipes with an assortment of fruit-flavored tobaccos to smoke. If you're wondering how hookah smoking …

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