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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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. |
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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. |
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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.
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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. |
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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. |
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In what they're calling a shop swap, East Village cafe Buddies is popping up at Ridgewood's Honey Moon Coffee, offering a coquito specialty drink and a guava pastry. Sunday, Honey Moon is popping up at Buddies with their own specials.
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13 Anemones will be brewing Portugal's Rush Rush coffee at Moon Coffee Lab.
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Upstate nano-roaster Mirra, self-described as "The American Nordic Roastery," is taking over the bar at Bushwick's Secret Coffee, offering espresso and pourovers. |
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In what they're calling a shop swap, Ridgewood's Honey Moon Coffee is popping up at East Village cafe Buddies, offering a banana latte and mini pastelitos. Saturday, Buddies is popping up at Honey Moon with their own specials.
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13 Anemones will be brewing Belgium's Rush Rush coffee at Deploy Coffee. |
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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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Vietnamese restaurant / cafe, Phê, is hosting nano-roaster Worker Coffee (Erinn Buhyoff) for a tasting of Vietnamese specialty Robusta. There will be free brewed samples as well as a guided tasting (cupping). |
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Bar Takeover | Motors at Sey Coffee, East Williamsburg
2025 French Brewers Cup Champion Thomas Philips, of the famed French multi-roaster cafe, Motors, is taking over the bar at Sey Coffee for two days. He'll be making drinks with a coffee created just for this event, a washed Gesha from Panamian producer Digna Nuñez processed by the fermentation experts at Lost Origin. Motors will also be using freeze-distilled milk, which you might be familiar with from another cult-favorite Paris cafe, Substance.
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Honey Moon Coffee is popping up at the Brooklyn Flea Record Fair at Smorgasburg, selling hot coffee and cold brew.
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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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Bar Takeover | Motors at Sey Coffee, East Williamsburg
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Local roaster Coffee Project NY is opening an Upper East Side location, their 8th, this coming Sunday, and to celebrate, are offering free coffee at that location from 8-11am.
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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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Taste Kinship's full single origin lineup and learn more about cupping coffee. |
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Every Wednesday we meet to explore New York City specialty coffee, this week at Vietnamese cafe, Phê, on the Lower East Side, just north of the Chinatown border. Phê recently got specialty coffee religion, bringing on veteran barista Trevor Williams and sourcing some of their coffee from nano-roaster Worker. Please RSVP.
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Loveless Coffees, in business as a roaster for 10 years (originally under the name Spectrum) and as a Bushwick brick and mortar since April 2022, is opening their first Manhattan outpost. Loveless took over a cafe space most recently occupied by Drip Coffee, tucked inside Shinola, a TriBeCa watch and leather goods maker founded in Detroit. The soft opening hours are 9am to 4pm. |
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Two weeks after their gml bar takeover, Little Italy multi-roaster shop, Park at Kims, is platforming another high end Korean coffee concern. This time around, famed Parisian Korean cafe, Klover, is taking over the bar for a two-day stint serving their self-roasted wares.
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Pourover specialists 13 Anemones are popping up at Brooklyn Heights multi-roaster shop, Náko, serving coffee from Belgium's Rush Rush.
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The wonderful Daldal is popping up at Astoria's Verse Cafe in conjunction with Bojagi. They'll be serving whimsical coffee and dessert pairings based on Korean summer dishes! |
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Mas, founded by Abby Hersh, Sunjoo Lee and Miles Rees Spear, is a fledgling coffee concept founded by coffee professionals who all met while working at Villager, a Crown Heights multi-roaster cafe. Saturday's pop-up, their second, is taking place regardless of the inclement weather, and is being hosted at Sunjoo's brother's restaurant, Andamiro, in Park Slope. They'll be serving a cold-brewed Finca El Bosque Chiroso, a special drink and possibly some hot pourovers.
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Two weeks after their gml bar takeover, Little Italy multi-roaster shop, Park at Kims, is platforming another high end Korean coffee concern. This time around, famed Parisian Korean cafe, Klover, is taking over the bar for a two-day stint serving their self-roasted wares. |
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Every Wednesday we meet to explore New York City specialty coffee, this week at the brand new Loveless Coffees outpost at the front of Shinola, a retail store in TriBeCa. They'll be serving their full lineup of single origin coffees as espresso and pourovers - no batch brew.
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Residency | Club Crema at Mo’s General, East Williamsburg
East Williamsburg Pizza restaurant, Mo's General, which opened in 2021 with a cafe extant, is hosting Club Crema / Isaiah Hattix for a coffee pop-up every weekend until the end of November, from 8am to noon. He'll be serving single origin drip and espresso using beans from Connecticut's Ilse and Massachusetts roaster Little Wolf along with treats from micro bakery Two Crows.
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The one day only New York Coffee Festival happens Saturday at Greenpoint's The Post and features an array of local roasters of various sizes. |
