Tarbrush Café
The Tarbrush Café, also called Tarbrush Coffee is a coffee/café chain in Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, based on Starbucks Coffee.
Roles in Missions
In Shakedown, Tommy Vercetti goes to the North Point Mall and destroys the windows of five stores in order to intimidate the shops and their owners into paying protection money, as they refused to pay their protection money as soon as they found out that Ricardo Diaz and his massive drug empire got overthrown by Tommy Vercetti and Lance Vance, with the Tarbrush Café being one of the stores in which its windows got damaged. However, their refusal to pay the mnoney led to their store's destruction.
In the mission Cop Land in GTA Vice City, Tommy Vercetti sends Mike to blow up the café, as it failed to pay protection money, only to find out from an argument between Mike and Lance Vance that Mike had screwed up the wiring and as a result, turned the North Point Mall into a cop land. He and Lance then knock out two cops, steal their uniforms and blows up the café themselves in the North Point Mall. Despite attracting heavy police attention, the pair make it back safely to the Vercetti Estate Starfish Island.
GTA San Andreas
Probably also exists in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and you can see coffee cups with the logo of Tarbrush Café, restaurants and Cluckin' Bell.
GTA Vice City Stories
In Vice City Stories, the Tarbrush Café doesn't exist. The unit at the mall where their store stood had been converted to a men's clothing store called T&A Men.
GTA IV Era
In Grand Theft Auto IV, parasols outside an unnamed coffee shop in Westdyke, Alderney bear the Tarbrush name and logo.
Trivia
- The Tarbrush Cafe is the only accessible small store in GTA Vice City where it doesn't need to be robbed. In fact, it cannot be robbed, as there is no clerk.
- The café also appears in Rockstar North's Manhunt.
Gallery
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Interior of the North Point Mall Tarbrush Cafe in GTA Vice City.
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A Tarbrush Coffee shop in Bedford Point, Liberty City, GTA III.
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A glass of Tarbrush Cafe in GTA San Andreas.
See also
- The Bean Machine, the successor of Tarbrush Café.
