A guide to New York City specialty coffee & cafe culture.
Weekly meetups for cafe and coffee enthusiasts + event listings
New York City specialty coffee & cafe culture guide.
To celebrate the three-year anniversary of World's Borough Bookshop in Jackson Heights, in-house cafe Pilas has helped organize a bunch of food and drink vendors including Homecoming Matcha. It's a two-day event, but Homecoming will only be there on Sunday.
And Company, a design studio, store and cafe, is opening in Bedford Stuyvesant near the Bushwick border.
Every Wednesday we meet to explore the local specialty coffee scene, this week at Lower East Side's Cafe Essx, by far the best New York City cafe in a clothing store. Their coffee program is run by veteran barista Joey Harvey, who brought on Hyunah Coffee Club to help create a more interesting cafe menu, expanding base model offerings from Parlor with hand brews from a variety of roasters.
Amativo, a Medellin-based, sustainability and traceability focused Colombian importer with offices in South Korea, Japan, and China, has recently established a US beachhead in Miami and is looking to source to New York City roasters. They'll be cupping their US offerings as part of Multimodal's Green Forums.
The Rabbit Books & Bar is holding a grand opening weekend in the East Village July 24-26, serving free samples of their drinks and the opportunity to become a Founding Reader. They use Parlor Coffee.
Nano-roaster Anthro, run by Coffee Klatsch regular Jake Cho, is doing its very first event ever, a bar takeover at Bushwick multi-roaster shop, Secret Coffee.
Buenos Diaz, who plan to open a Mexican-inspired cafe in New York City in the near future, are popping up at Bushwick roaster, Obscure, offering a flight of signature drinks: strawberry horchata latte, guava horchata matcha latte and cajeta latte.
Adding to their multitudinous event types, Regalia / Multimodal are launching their first series of brewing events, where people of all skill levels can pay a nominal fee of $5 for the opportunity to use their laboratory stocked with brewing devices, grinders and advice. Coffee is provided.
Every month Filson platforms primarily local coffee companies by letting them set up tables in the lobby of their Union Square flagship location. This month's iteration is part of a cactus and succulent shopping event and involves giant Arkansas indie roaster, Onyx, and Queens-based specialty instant company, Forchewn.
Demolicion, a tiny East Williamsburg boutique selling an eclectic selection of goods (art, clothing, magazines, objects), is hosting Club Crema, in the person of Isaiah Hattix, for the latest iteration of his periodic residency.
Every Wednesday we meet to explore New York City specialty coffee, anyone invited, no experience required. This week we're convening at Obscure Coffee Roasters, where founder Norberto Peña will be preparing his Aeropress competition coffee for us (he's competing in Boston a few days later) along with the rest of his wonderful offerings.
Secondneedle Tattoo Studio is hosting POB/พบ (translation: meet), an itinerant Saturday morning cafe; their last iteration was at Sea Thai. They'll be serving two pourovers, an Ethiopian anaerobic natural and a Costa Rican natural (roaster unknown) plus matcha.
