Intermezzo is the place to go for beautiful people, beautiful deserts, beautiful wood paneling, and useless ionic pillars and arches stuck in the middle of nowhere for no reason. If you don't go to Intermezzo after the theater, then you really haven't been to the theater at all. But if the show gets to bothering your bowels, don't worry, you can learn French on tape while lazily taking care of business in the bathroom. Intermezzo being one hip bookend, Cafe Diem would be the other. Diem is only a block from Ponce and about four caddy corner blocks from little five points.
Street life comes awfully close to happening there.
The crowd is truly eclectic and international. Many of them have read great literature and many try to write it. The coffee is poor and is served with two percent milk instead of creme. The servers there are abusive in the way that used to be so popular at R-Thomas a few years back. The pretension is so thick you can cut it with an Emory kid's gold card.