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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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. |
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Long Island's single origin roaster, Flux Coffee, represented by Brewers Cup competitor Marc Chiusano, will be at Moon Coffee Lab brewing three washed coffees from different origins and an Edwin Norena Colombian co-ferment, Red Fruit. |
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Every Wednesday we meet to explore New York City specialty coffee, anyone invited and no experience required. This week's meetup is planned to coincide with Deep Cut Coffee's first event ever, a bar takeover at hidden Bushwick multi-roaster shop, Secret, tucked away in the Broadway Mall. Deep Cut is an Astoria-based nano-roaster.
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Deep Cut, a nano-roaster from Astoria, with plans to eventually open their own cafe in the neighborhood, are doing their first event ever, a bar takeover at Bushwick's Secret Coffee. They'll be serving their current single origin line-up on pourover as well as a washed Bourbon Sidra from Huila, Colombia on espresso. |
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Premier East Village multi-roaster shop, Moon Coffee Lab, is hosting green coffee importer, Andean Bean, for an educational evening tasting event. They'll be brewing alongside coffee professionals Zion Eli'jah (found behind bar at Driftaway Coffee on weekends) and newly-crowned Origami Cup champion, Julie Patadia. |
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AAPI Festival of Tea by Smorgasburg & Brown Girl Mag, Brooklyn
Smorgasburg and Brown Girl Mag are hosting an AAPI Festival of Tea, although I couldn't find much tea in the event description. However, local Indian specialty coffee companies Pitara and Yeri will be on hand with coffee drinks.
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Multi-roaster shop Three Legged Cat is hosting Jersey City roaster, Modcup, for a bar takeover. The last time they hosted them was October 2024.
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POB will be serving specialty coffee at Sea Thai as part of Matcha Beats Club, a 2000s daytime dj party with so-called "live matcha preparation" and baked good. Free RSVP to enter.
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Peculiar Coffee's Jimmy Lee will be holding a tasting of his current offerings at one of his usual spots, Ridgewood record store Woodward Garage - he also sells full cups. |
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AAPI Festival of Tea by Smorgasburg & Brown Girl Mag, Brooklyn
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And Company, a design studio, store and cafe, is opening in Bedford Stuyvesant near the Bushwick border.
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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. |
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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.
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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. |
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Grand Opening Weekend | Rabbit Books & Bar, East Village
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.
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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.
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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.
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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. |
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Grand Opening Weekend | Rabbit Books & Bar, East Village
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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. |
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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.
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Pop Up | 13 Anemones at Bronx Roadhouse, Mott Haven
After a week-long pourover residency at Paris multi-roaster cafe, Harvest (one of our faves), 13 Anemones is back in town for another Mott Haven espresso and pourover pop-up featuring their favorite Belgian roaster, Rush Rush. 
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This is the 25th coffee crawl in this series. We will be stopping for approximately 1 hour each at the the first two shops, Harlem's Superhet and Chelsea's Tera Espresso Bar, 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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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.
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Chinatown cafe Bazu! is hosting Japanese company Kazumi, a maker of siphon brewers, for an all-day brewing event, presumably using the coffee shop's standard line-up of Glitch, Apollon's Gold and coffee self-roasted under the Superwow moniker. |
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Pop Up | 13 Anemones at Bronx Roadhouse, Mott Haven
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In the year since Park at Kims opened, it has evolved into one of our best multi-roaster shops, sourcing Korean (and other) coffees not often found in New York City and preparing them well. This meetup marks exactly one year since our last klatsch at Park at Kims, which took place nine days after their August 18, 2025 soft opening.
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Coffee Project NY's flagship LIC location is holding a fundraiser for Colombia (after the recent earthquake). There will be pourovers and beans for sale from a variety of roasters and distributors as well as professional grinder cleaning and a cupping. 100% of money raised will go toward relief efforts.
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Try out Fellow products including the Series 1 espresso machine, the Aiden brewer and the Opus 2 grinder. Coffee provided by Variety.
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Nano-roaster Peculiar Coffee continues his run of pop-ups, this time at Bushwick's community bookstore, Mil Mundos. |
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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.
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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.
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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. |
