Under new Development Manager Griffin Deutsch, wallflower Regalia Coffee is stepping out into society with a full bar takeover at multi-roaster shop, Villager, in Crown Heights.
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.
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Under new Development Manager Griffin Deutsch, wallflower Regalia Coffee is stepping out into society with a full bar takeover at multi-roaster shop, Villager, in Crown Heights.
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Unique coffee experience Ciao Vagante pops up most Sundays at Greenpoint's Goose Garage. The brainchild of Asher von Stein, Ciao Vagante involves a Fiat Panda custom-modified to support an espresso rig in the back. This Sunday they'll also have Kettl matcha, and Dear Ellen will be there with pastries. |
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Japanese tea specialist, Mika's Direction, is hosting Japan's Kaneka Kitagawa Tea for a tasting on five separate days: June 29, 30 and July 2,3 and 4. |
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Japanese tea specialist, Mika's Direction, is hosting Japan's Kaneka Kitagawa Tea for a tasting on five separate days: June 29, 30 and July 2,3 and 4. |
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Every week we meet to explore New York City specialty coffee, no experience required. This week, after a brief hiatus, we are meeting at brand new shop, Monoblend, a coffee roaster based in Chelsea.
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Tasting | Kaneka Kitagawa Tea at Mika’s Direction, Koreatown
Japanese tea specialist, Mika's Direction, is hosting Japan's Kaneka Kitagawa Tea for a tasting on five separate days: June 29, 30 and July 2,3 and 4. |
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Hancock Cafe, serving La Cabra, is opening on the Lower East Side.
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Family-run, Hong Kong-style Harbour Kafe is soft opening in Southeast Williamsburg, serving drinks from the region, and I believe, specialty coffee, but I haven't heard back from them yet about that. |
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Pop Up | Muted Entity at Summer Market at Lumin Studio, East Williamsburg
Muted Entity is popping up at a Summer Market hosted by Vothe and Lumin in Bushwick. |
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Pop Up | Muted Entity at Summer Market at Lumin Studio, East Williamsburg
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Lower East Side co-ferment specialists Tera, open for only seven months, are already debuting a second location, this one in Chelsea. Actually, they are shuffling operations a bit, moving the daytime cafe to the Chelsea location and leaving the OG branch for nighttime food and wine (and weekend coffee omakase). |
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Dear Coffee, which opened their first location on the Upper East Side in Spring 2024, is debuting a new branch in Chelsea. They use coffee from Onyx, roasted in Arkansas. |
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Every Wednesday we meet to explore New York City specialty coffee, this week at Chelsea's brand new Tera Espresso Bar, a lobby cafe in a residential building. Tera specializes in co-ferments and offers a stripped-down menu of specialty drinks, single origin espresso and pourovers (and tea). There's no batch or cold brew. Join us to explore their offerings.
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Nano-roaster Queens Qoffee Qollective is taking over the bar at Moon Coffee Lab, with "assorted offerings." More details forthcoming. |
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I had never imagined good coffee would land on the shores of Governors Island, but Friday, Bushwick roaster YellowSun is opening a summer outpost. |
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Either Regalia Coffee founder Paolo Maliksi or assistant roaster, Griffin Deutsch, will be leading the monthly cupping of their offerings, held the first Saturday of every month at Multimodal Roasting, where Paolo is a partner. Each cupping explores a different facet of quality control and is open to everyone, from novice tasters to pros. |
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Started by ex-Red Coffee Stand barista Giorgi Gvadzabia and others, Coffee Stain, also using Long Island's Flux Coffee, will be opening Monday on Havemeyer St, around the corner from the OG L'Industrie. Alfajores by 34 South.
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Pilas Cafe at the World's Borough Bookstore in Jackson Heights is hosting Indian coffee importers, Pitara, for a Latin American / South Asian fusion cafe day. There will be South Asian coffee and all manner of crossover food and drinks, among other things. |
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Every Wednesday we meet to explore New York City specialty coffee, this week at East Village multi-roaster shop, Moon Coffee Lab. Open since December 2025 and helmed by veteran barista, Meech Molina, Moon has already situated itself among the top cafes in the city and is a Coffee Klatsch favorite. Anyone invited and no experience required. Please RSVP below.
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Up to I think five locations now, Japanese tea-drink specialists, Kijitora, are opening a Ridgewood cafe, just over the Bushwick border on St Nicholas. |
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Nashville roaster Draped in Blue is taking over the bar at Suited with coffees roasted exclusively for this event. |
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Pop Up | Anoasis + Uju Studios at Renewfinds, Greenpoint
Vintage furniture boutique is hosting Anoasis and Uju Studios for a weekend coffee and pastry pop-up.
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This is the 23rd coffee crawl in this series. We will be stopping for approximately 1 hour each at the the first two shops, Bushwick roaster YellowSun and Bedford Stuyvesant's Bakery by Textbook, before heading to home base, Principles GI Coffee House in Gowanus, Brooklyn. It's a chill, safe social ride, many people use Citibike.
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Long Island City roasting collective, Multimodal, is hosting a public cupping of 2026 Honduras Cup of Excellence. $5 tickets at the door, limited to 40 attendees.
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Cafe Essx, a new coffee shop inside of Essx NYC, a Lower East Side designer boutique, is hosting the members of Hyunah Coffee Club for a pop-up. Greenpoint-based Hyunah is a members-only club where people reserve time to use all of the top end and latest equipment to brew coffee. Their members will be brewing for the general public this Saturday at Essx. |
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Pop Up | Anoasis + Uju Studios at Renewfinds, Greenpoint
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Nashville roaster Draped in Blue is taking over the bar at Suited with coffees roasted exclusively for this event. |
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Bazu! is a Chinatown multi-roaster shop featuring Japanese cult-favorite coffees such as Glitch and Apollon's Gold along with quality wares self-roasted under the Superwow moniker. Each week we meet to explore New York City specialty coffee. Join us this week at Bazu! Anyone invited and no experience required.
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This is the 24th coffee crawl in this series. We will be stopping for approximately 1 hour each at the the first two shops, SoHo's Manjul and Bushwick roaster Loveless, before heading to home base, Principles GI Coffee House in Gowanus, Brooklyn. It's a safe, relaxed social ride. Many people use Citibike.
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Long Island City roasting collective, Multimodal, is hosting a public cupping of 2026 Guatemala Cup of Excellence. $5 tickets at the door, limited to 40 attendees. |
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Worker Coffee, in the person of Erinn Buhyoff, is popping up at Bushwick's Horseradish Market with two different roasts of the same coffee from Kenya's Little Swamps Estate, presumably sourced from Erinn's day job at Crop to Cup Coffee.
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Coffee enthusiasts 13 Anemones are holding a pourover pop-up in Mott Haven featuring coffees from Portugal acquired on a recent trip; the roasters are So, Von & Vonnie and 7g. |
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Every Wednesday we meet to explore the New York City specialty coffee and cafe scene, this week at Suited, a multi-roaster cafe that is one of Manhattan's best coffee shops. Suited hosts a lot of events, sources coffee from all over the world, and sells way better than average food for a cafe.
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Pop Up | 13 Anemones at Bronx Roadhouse, Mott Haven
Coffee enthusiasts 13 Anemones are holding their second pourover pop-up at Mott Haven's Bronx Roadhouse. |