As Chinatown's closeby neighborhood, Little Italy has become smaller and smaller, and only those Italian restaurants, regular street fairs that happens every year along with a sign that says "Little Italy" could remind us its existence. The whole area is slowly being occupied by Chinese migrants. Therefore, I was quite confused when I was looking for this coffee place due to the fact that all the stores around were opened by Chinese! Herbal medicine shop, fish shop ...and NOLITA MART Espresso Bar & Gourmet Market was right next to a foot massage place, so it was kind of hard for me to imagine the market being here. NOLITA is short for NOrth of Little ITAly, but as mentioned before, being surrounded by signboards in Chinese created an interesting contrast with the vibe of the mart.
