Itโ€™s never too early to start planning for St. Patrickโ€™s Day, by which I mean figuring out something more productive to do with your time than getting blackout drunk and acting like a fool during a bastardized holiday that has more to do with bad stereotypes than the actual dayโ€™s namesake. But I digress. What you could be doingโ€”if you live in San Jose, California, at leastโ€”is going to the first-ever throwdown at Recovery Cafe.

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Recovery Cafe isnโ€™t like most coffee shops hosting latte art extravaganzas. It is โ€œa safe space and healing community for those who have been afflicted by homelessness, addiction and mental health setbacks within the San Jose area,โ€ according to assistant manager Rikki Vick. Along with coffee, they offer โ€œmeals, self-help classes, [and] job preparedness programsโ€ to members of their community.

Thanks to a recent remodel, Recovery Cafe is the happy owner of their own espresso machine, which will allow them to better provide individuals with coffee-related job training, and they want to celebrate with the greater public with a little throwdown. They have teamed up with Chromatic Coffee, who has graciously donated over 60 pounds of coffee to Recovery for the event and beyond, for a night of pours, hangs, and good times. The cafe is still looking for a few espresso essentials to help complete their new bar, specifically a scale and a tamping mat, so if you have any to donate, make sure to get in touch with the good folks at Recovery.

The event gets started at 5:00pm, so if youโ€™re looking for something better to do next Saturday than pretend to be Irish, consider checking out Recovery Cafe during their first throwdown. Itโ€™s sure to be a good time for a good cause, and you wonโ€™t regret it in the morning. For more information, visit Recovery Cafe’s official website.

Zac Cadwaladerย is the news editor at Sprudge Media Network and a staff writer based in Dallas.ย Read more Zac Cadwaladerย on Sprudge.

*top image via Recovery Cafe

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