Dungeons, dragons and tea at new Huntsville café
Updated Jan 26, 2021;
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You can get a latte here and also rent a dungeon master.
At Dragon’s Forge Café, owners/married couple Bruce and Jennie Caudle serve fantasy-themed coffee and tea drinks in a space with sorcerous vibes. The café opened Dec. 30 on the second floor at Huntsville arts center Lowe Mill, address 2211 Seminole Drive.
Dragon’s Forge’s interior walls are painted to look like some enchanted tower. There’s an array of curious-looking antique clocks, which Bruce restored and date back to the 1800s. Eyeballs peak out of hanging plant arrangements. A portrait of H.P. Lovecraft hangs near bookcases filled with “Dungeons & Dragons” books and other nerd-chic tomes. There’s even a dragon-adorned throne you can sit on.
Lowe Mill Arts: An Art Pilgrimage in Huntsville, Alabama
Back in sepia-toned times, it began as a textile mill and was later a shoe factory. Since 2001, this cavernous brick building has been home to a tech town’s arts/culture heartbeat. Nineteen years later, organizers tout
Lowe Mill as The South’s largest privately owned arts center. It’s located in a soulful working class neighborhood, on the west side of Huntsville, a North Alabama city known for aerospace engineering that helped NASA put men on the moon with 1969’s Apollo 11 mission. Huntsville is also famously home to Space Camp, where generations of kids, including those of celebs like Tom Hanks and Bruce Springsteen, come to indulge astronaut daydreams. The past several years, Huntsville has attracted bold font endeavors like the FBI, Blue Origin and Facebook to locate here. The city is about about an hour’s drive from Muscle Shoals, and the fertile recording studio scene that birthed classics by the likes of Ar