Dino's Cafe

normalroach sits in front of Dino's Cafe

Dino's Cafe was a cafe in Iest.

History

The cafe was frequented by normalroach, who clashed with the waitress, Janice.

Following the arrest and deportation of Jaka Tavers, Cerebus gave the owner, Dino, a gold coin to cover the costs of Cerebus' food and bed for the rest of his life. Cerebus then staued at the cafe in a near catatonic state for many months. With the interest alone from the coin, Dino was able to live large and upgrade many aspects of the cafe. He also hired a new waitress, Doris, who took a liking to Cerebus.

Dave Sim on Dino's Cafe

• "Cerebus in MELMOTH was very autobiographical. I don't usually stray too far over into autobiography per se, but certainly the sort of stunned quality that he had in MELMOTH. . .I had just come out of a particularly troublesome relationship where, basically, I went to Peter's Place just about every night and sat and started at the wall full of bottles and drank my beer. That's the club that is owned by Dino. Janice worked there up until last week. Doris works there. That was about as close as I had ever gotten to autobiography. I wasn't clutching a doll and a sword but I might as well have; in a figurative sense, that's exactly what I was doing. People knew me well enough not to come up and talk to me and that went on for months. Aside from that, I just worked."