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Sole is Italian for sun, and that is the whole idea: a real slice of Italy tucked into District Midtown, built by a Milan-born owner and his wife who ran a weekend coffee cart around town before building this space out from an empty shell unit. What lands in your cup is the genuine article. The espresso is Italy's own Bistrot Coffee, and the small things most places overlook, the sugar and even the napkins, come imported straight from Italy. Pastries arrive fresh each morning from Le Petit Croissant, the downtown bakery known for its European-style baking. The retail shelves rotate through Italian cookies, chocolates, and imported treats, plus oddities like MoleCola, Italy's answer to Coke. The pistachio latte gets talked about a lot, and any drink can be made decaf if you ask. It is a laptop-friendly room with free wifi and validated parking, the kind of stop a lot of us around here folded into the week fast. The logo is two espresso cups shaped like sunglasses, a wink at the sun in the name. Order a cappuccino, settle into the imported-tile room, and it is easy to see why it caught on so quickly.