Every Wednesday we meet to explore the New York City specialty coffee scene, this week at Banh by Lauren, a Vietnamese-French bakery in Two Bridges. Banh by Lauren has the best coffee program for a dedicated bakery in the city. Afterwards we will probably head over to Bazu! in Chinatown, a few blocks away.
This is the 26th coffee crawl in this series, route TBD. We will be stopping for approximately 1 hour each at the the first two shops before heading to home base, Principles GI Coffee House in Gowanus, Brooklyn. It's a safe, relaxed social ride. Many people use Citibike.
Andser (Andrew and Serena) are popping up at Moon Coffee Lab, an East Village multi-roaster cafe, serving three drinks from their coffee omakase series. This is their first pop-up ever. RSVP at the link below so that they can make enough.
Nano-importer, The Marquesina, is holding a fundraiser at Bushwick's Secret Coffee to raise money to support coffee growers affected by the recent earthquake in Colombia.
Every Wednesday we meet to explore New York City specialty coffee, this week at NoHo's Semm, which opened this past Friday.
Semm is a Korean-leaning cafe, wine bar and gallery. The menu is divided into four sections: tea pot service, tea and malcha, pourovers and espresso drinks. Their coffee, primarily co-ferments, is roasted by Tera, and David Wynn, Tera's owner, consulted on this cafe.
Korea Brewers Cup 2026 finalist, Park Kun Tae (Kun), will be taking over the bar at Park at Kims as a representative of gml, a multi-roaster cafe with two locations in Seoul. Kun will be brewing coffees acquired on a recent Panama trip as well as espresso from Seven Mystery, a renowned Toronto-based roaster.
Unblended representative Gio Cucalon, former Director of Coffee at New York City multi-roaster Drip Coffee, will be holding a cupping at Shared Coffee 1, in Clinton Hill, focused on coffees from women producers. Unblended is a Colombian exporter whose overarching mission is to bring young people into coffee farming.
Every month Filson platforms an eclectic selection primarily local coffee companies by letting them set up tables in the lobby of their Union Square flagship location. This month's iteration features Long Island based nano-roaster, Favor, upstate's Hudson Roastery, specialty instant makers, Forchewn (for the second month in a row), and Brooklyn's Sweetbee.
Bushwick's Obscure Coffee is hosting its second roaster showcase of 2026, this time around featuring Bay Ridge's City League, who you don't see at very many coffee events, Jersey City's Modcup and nano-roasters Peculiar, Superlost and Thoughtful. Tickets required. There are two separate block times. See the link below.
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