Kefa Cafe co-owner Abeba Tsegaye smiles after receiving a present from a regular customer as the cafe reopens in Silver Spring, Md. after a 10-month closure due to a building fire. (Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post) Kefa Cafe survived the mid-1990s, when Silver Spring was a wasteland of empty parking lots. As the city boomed at the turn of the century, the tiny Ethiopian coffeehouse weathered the expansion of Starbucks and other Big Coffee outposts. And even after a fire in March left the place a gritty, smelly shambles, Lene and Abeba Tsegaye said they knew their customers would be […]
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