Mystic coffee Restaurants, posted by Editor, Mountain View Voice Online, on Oct 29, 2010 at 12:54 pm
You will likely be gently welcomed by Parviz Rasti, in wire-rim glasses and a sweater, looking very much the college professor he was for 25 years. Rasti opened the Sufi Coffee Shop and Cultural Center in 2003 at the request of his Sufi master.
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Posted by A. Reader, a resident of the Old Mountain View neighborhood, on Oct 29, 2010 at 1:01 pm
He also makes the soups: lentil, vegetable/bean and Persian. Is Persian an ingredient? Or it means the soup is Persian? Or Persian is the name of another soup?
Posted by A. Reader, a resident of the Old Mountain View neighborhood, on Oct 29, 2010 at 1:07 pm
It says, "Wisdom is knowing what to overlook." And then in the title I read "Sandwiched between a barber and a computer repair shop, the Sufi Coffee Shop is hard to spot unless you're looking for it." I wonder if there is any relation?
Posted by A. Reader, a resident of the Old Mountain View neighborhood, on Oct 29, 2010 at 7:06 pm
It says first "Rasti's order is Persian, accepts all religions and does not seek converts." And then a few paragraphs later, "But Rasti's Sufi master decided that turn-of-the-millennium Silicon Valley needed a taste of Sufi values — community, kindness, altruism — and that Rasti was the one to do it." If I accept those values, then am I not sort of a convert or a partial-convert?
Posted by A. Reader, a resident of the Old Mountain View neighborhood, on Oct 29, 2010 at 11:37 pm
Thanks for the article. I have never been to this place, but it piqued my interest enough to go to Yelp and read some amusing comments/stories about this place. [Web Link]
Posted by A. Reader, a resident of the Old Mountain View neighborhood, on Oct 30, 2010 at 10:52 pm
One sign says, "We are not a corporate entity. Please try to walk in our Moccasins and justify your being here and be fair." Another, "Please refrain from going to big toilet. Thank you." There are sneaked-out pictures of more signs here: [Web Link]
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