Coffee in Rutherford

A family-run bake shop on Franklin Place, open since 2014, doing sweet and savory pastry alongside coffee from a local roaster. The counter is the whole operation and the seating is limited, so people take it out onto the block as often as not. It is open Wednesday through Sunday and closes at three in the afternoon.

Wed to Sun, 8am to 3pm. Closed Monday and Tuesday

A coffee house on a side street off Paterson Avenue in East Rutherford, pulling espresso and doing a short food menu rather than running a full kitchen. It is a couple of streets from the Rutherford train station, so it catches commuters early and quiets down through the afternoon. Sunday is the one day worth checking before you go.

Mon to Sat, 7am to 6pm. Sunday varies by listing

An espresso counter two doors from the corner, pouring beans roasted by Paper Plane over in Jersey City. The pastry case is Colombian rather than Italian, so it runs to pandebono and arepa de choclo alongside toasts made to order. It opens at seven every morning and closes in the late afternoon.

Mon to Sat, 7am to 5pm. Sun, 7am to 4pm