Coffee in New York
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An espresso counter on East 7th Street that has been going since 2007 and roasts what it pours. The olive oil cake comes out of the oven in the morning and goes fast. There is standing at the counter and not much seating behind it.
Mon to Thu, 8am to 8pm. Fri and Sat, 8am to 10pm. Sun, 9am to 6pm
Hervé Poussot's bakery on Water Street under the Manhattan Bridge, selling baguettes, croissants, éclairs and a case of small tarts, with coffee at the counter and a couple of seats by the window. It has been there since 2002 and the line on a weekend morning goes out the door and takes five minutes. It is shut Monday and Tuesday, which is easy to forget.
Wed to Sun, 8:30am to 6pm. Closed Monday and Tuesday
On Ninth Avenue since 1992, baking overnight in the back. Semolina with golden raisins and fennel, and a coffee to carry up the block.
Daily, 7:30am to 8pm
A small French-leaning cafe on Varet Street that pours wine and beer alongside the coffee. Breakfast runs all day and the food is eggs and sandwiches rather than a pastry case. The block is residential and quiet compared with Bogart Street two over.
Monday to Friday 7:30am to 4pm. Saturday and Sunday 7:30am to 4:30pm.
An old bakery on the main strip under the elevated tracks, with glass cases of hazelnut meringues, rum balls, glazed brioche and the kind of oversized cream cake that gets bought whole for a birthday. There is coffee and a few seats. It opens at seven in the morning, earlier than anything else useful nearby.
Mon to Fri, 7am to 7pm. Weekend hours not confirmed
A café and small market on Grove Street that serves breakfast all day and starts lunch at 11am. The coffee is the reason to sit down rather than take it out, and the tables turn over steadily on a weekend morning without anyone taking a name. It is a full kitchen rather than a pastry case.
Daily from 8am. Breakfast all day, lunch from 11am, brunch 8am to 3:30pm. Closing time varies by day and is not reliably published
Family owned since 1998 and open at five in the morning, this is a Colombian bakery counter with a restaurant behind it. The case holds pan de bono, buñuelos and empanadas, and the coffee is Colombian. Later in the day it turns into a full kitchen doing bandeja paisa and sancocho, and there is a bar for aguardiente and juices.
Mon to Thu, 5am to 9pm. Fri and Sat, 5am to 11pm. Sun, 5am to 9pm
A husband and wife who met in Ethiopia run this, and the coffee comes from small growers there. This Pinehurst Avenue shop is the original of their three uptown cafes, tucked on the quiet side street above the 181st Street elevators. Bennett Park is a minute away if you want to drink it outside.
Mon to Fri, 7am to 5pm. Sat and Sun, 8am to 5pm
The largest of Buunni's uptown cafes, on Broadway between 207th and Isham, and the one they use for art shows and community events. Same Ethiopian coffee from the same small growers as the Pinehurst original. It is five minutes from the 207th Street station.
Mon to Fri, 7:30am to 4:30pm. Sat and Sun, 8am to 4:30pm
Philippe Delgrange opened this as the relaxed counterpart to Le Bilboquet, his restaurant of the same name a block away. Fourteen hundred square feet across the ground floor and the basement, doing coffee and pastries during the day and salads, sandwiches and quiche through lunch, with wine, beer and champagne if the afternoon goes that way.
Monday to Friday 7am to 7pm. Saturday 8am to 7pm. Sunday 8am to 6pm.
A Mexican bakery and coffee counter at the top of Port Richmond Avenue, in the storefront that was Oven Baked Bakery for over a century before this family took it over in 2009. Pan dulce and conchas come off trays you work through with tongs, and there is a kitchen behind doing tortas, tacos and antojitos. It opens at eight and runs to half ten at night, which is the longest day of anything on the avenue.
Mon to Fri, 8am to 10:30pm. Weekend hours are posted shorter by some listings and are flagged as unverified
The first Café Grumpy, open on Meserole Avenue since 2005, with the roastery next door. It goes a long way back from the street so there is usually somewhere to sit. Open 7am to 7pm every day.
Daily, 7am to 7pm
A small cafe on Cortelyou Road that opens at seven every morning and stays on until eight at night, which is unusual this far down Flatbush. Espresso and drip come from the counter. Pastries are made on site. Order eggs if you want a plate rather than a cup. Tables fill on weekend mornings and empty out by the middle of the afternoon.
Daily, 7am to 8pm
A small espresso bar tucked onto Berkeley Place off Seventh Avenue, with a zinc-topped counter, a few stools and newspapers people actually read. It does espresso and a short list of pastry and nothing else. The name is a joke about being the northern branch of a café six blocks away.
Every day, 8am to 4pm
Domenico Parisi opened this on MacDougal Street in 1927 and the 1902 espresso machine he bought is still standing in the front. The walls are hung with Italian paintings and an old Medici bench, and nobody hurries you off a marble table. It runs to three in the morning most nights, which is later than almost any other café in the neighborhood.
Mon to Thu and Sun, 9am to 3am. Fri and Sat, 9am to 4:30am
A small independent coffee bar in a Bay Street storefront a few blocks up from the Stapleton waterfront, doing espresso drinks, matcha, sandwiches and doughnuts. The specialty lattes top out around five dollars, which is the giveaway that it is built for people who live on the block rather than for anyone off the ferry. It is a daytime operation and it shuts in the afternoon.
Mon and Tue, 8am to 4pm. Thu, 8am to 4pm. Fri and Sat, 9am to 5pm. Sun, 9am to 4pm. Closed Wednesday
Good espresso and a chocolate chip cookie that comes out of the oven in the afternoon. Counter seating and not much of it.
Mon to Fri, 7am to 7pm. Weekends, 8am to 6pm
The oldest pastry shop in Bronx Little Italy, opened in 1912 and still using the original oven and the original recipes. Sfogliatelle, pignoli cookies and cannoli in the cases. Espresso and coffee come to the tables in a tiled interior that has not been refitted. It is around the corner from the Arthur Avenue crowd rather than on it. You can sit down here, which matters because most of the bakeries on this street are counters.
Daily, 7am to 7pm. The Bronx Little Italy merchant file posts 7am to 8pm, so the later hour is possible but not relied on here
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 tea shop on the ground floor at Main and 37th, three minutes from Flushing Town Hall, where you can sit down and have leaves brewed for you properly rather than buying a cup to carry out. Oolong and puerh are what the counter steers people toward and the shelves behind are given over to pots and cups. They run tea classes for anyone who wants the longer version. It shuts at six, so this is daytime and early evening only.
Daily, 10:30am to 6pm
Melissa and Emily Elsen, sisters from South Dakota, started selling pie in 2009 and opened this shop on Third Avenue in spring 2010. It is a counter with a few tables, a slice of salted honey or whatever is in season, and coffee. Nothing about it has scaled up in fifteen years.
Mon to Fri, 8am to 6pm. Sat, 9am to 7pm. Sun, 10am to 6pm
Coffee and shaved ice on West 32nd until eleven most nights and midnight on a weekend. The injeolmi bingsu is built for a table of four and takes a while to get through.
Sun to Wed, 11am to 11pm. Thu, to 11:30pm. Fri and Sat, to midnight
A counter across Amsterdam Avenue from the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, open since the early 1960s. Coffee refills are free and the pastries sit in a case you point at. There is no wifi. Columbia students have been writing papers at the small tables for decades and nobody moves them along.
Mon to Fri, 7:30am to 8:30pm. Sat and Sun, 8:30am to 8:30pm
A small Hungry Ghost shop on DeKalb a block off Flatbush, with an espresso bar, a pastry case and a handful of seats and a window counter. The company roasts its own and has been opening shops around Brooklyn since 2009, so the coffee is consistent rather than experimental. It opens at 7am and closes at 5pm seven days a week, which makes it a daytime stop only.
Every day, 7am to 5pm
A coffee bar in the lobby of the High Line Hotel, which occupies a wing of the General Theological Seminary on Tenth Avenue. There is a brick courtyard off the lobby with chairs under the plane trees, and in good weather that is where everyone sits. Pour overs and espresso, counter service, no table to be given.
Mon to Sun, 7am to 5pm
A counter in the tiled passage that runs from the main concourse out to Lexington Avenue, which means you drink it standing in a corridor of Grand Central with commuters going past. Joe started on Waverly Place in 2003 and roasts its own. Espresso and drip come by the cup. A cortado and a short pastry case fill out the counter.
Mon to Fri, 7am to 7pm. Sat and Sun, 9am to 6pm
Kyo Pang cooks the Nyonya food she grew up with, and the coffee is kopi, brewed strong and poured over condensed milk. Kuih and toast come out through the day rather than only at breakfast. It sits down on East Broadway, below the busy Lower East Side blocks.
Daily, 10am to 10pm
A roaster on North Route 303 working with African beans, with a counter at the front for espresso and filter. Bags of the house roast and ready-to-drink cans are sold alongside the drinks. The company's other store is in Brooklyn. The schedule changes day to day, and Wednesday does not start until ten.
Mon, 7am to 5pm. Tue, 7am to 2pm. Wed, 10am to 5pm. Thu and Fri, 7am to 5pm. Sat and Sun, 8am to 3pm
A South American bakery counter on 37th Avenue with trays of bizcochos behind glass, chivito sandwiches to order and coffee at the register. The case changes through the day and the pastries are priced by the piece. There are a few tables inside and most people take a bag. The restaurant next door at 85-02 is the same family.
Daily, 8am to 9pm
A small coffee counter on Duane Street with a handful of stools, open at six in the morning every day of the week. Hugh Jackman co-founded it and the stated arrangement sends profits to a foundation that buys from smallholder growers. The Tribeca shop is operated day to day under the Slate Cafe name.
Daily, 6am to 6pm
A French bakery counter at the front with tables behind it, on York Avenue in Yorkville. Croissants and tarts out of the case, and a short savory menu for lunch and dinner. It runs to 10pm on a Thursday and Friday, which is not something bakeries usually do.
Monday 7:30am to 6pm, Tuesday and Wednesday to 9pm, Thursday and Friday to 10pm, Saturday 8am to 10pm, Sunday 8am to 5pm
A lunch counter that opened in 1925 and was last remodelled in 1948, which is the layout you walk into now. The candy side came in 1930 and went away after the war, so what is left is the fountain and the griddle. They still mix a Coke from syrup and soda in front of you. Stools at the counter, a handful of booths behind.
Mon to Fri, 7am to 5:45pm. Sat, 8am to 5:45pm. Sun, 8am to 4pm
Sour cream apple walnut pie by the slice since 1985. Four tables and a case, and they will warm it if you ask.
Daily, 8am to 8pm
A café and board storage run by the two men behind Locals Surf School, on Beach 69th Street a block off the sand. Espresso and drip from the bar, pastries in the case, and beer and wine if the coffee is not what you came for. People come in still damp from the water and nobody minds, and the racks of stored boards along the wall are the whole explanation of the place.
Daily, 7am to 5pm
Leyla Dam Jenkins grew up in Spain, went back to Sevilla to learn to make churros at a small shop there, and opened this on Bedford Street. The churros come out hot with a cup of thick chocolate to dip them in, and the coffee is single-origin from roasters like Sey and Onyx, pulled as a cortado more often than anything else. It began as a sixteen-seat counter and took the space next door in 2020, so it now runs to around forty seats and you can usually sit down.
Mon to Fri, 7am to 6pm. Sat and Sun, 8am to 6pm
An independent roastery on Central Park Avenue that opens at six in the morning and stays open to ten at night, midnight on Friday and Saturday. The drinks are made to order and the pastry case is not the usual wholesale tray. Those late hours are unusual for a coffee place anywhere in lower Westchester, which makes it one of the few places near the theater still serving after a screening.
Mon to Thu, 6am to 10pm. Fri and Sat, 6am to 12am. Sun, 6am to 10pm
Open on Edgecombe Avenue since 2014, pulling Intelligentsia and pouring Kilogram tea, with pastries brought in from local bakers each morning. It sits at the foot of the Sugar Hill bluff where Edgecombe meets 141st. People work here for hours and nobody hurries them.
Mon to Fri, 7am to 5pm. Sat and Sun, 8am to 5pm
A bakery on Austin Street with a long glass case that starts with cakes by the slice and cannoli. Cheesecake fills the other end. The coffee counter is beside it. It opens at six in the morning and runs to midnight, later on the weekend, which makes it the most useful set of hours in Forest Hills. There are tables inside and a few on the sidewalk.
Sun to Thu, 6am to midnight. Fri and Sat, 6am to 1am
A French bakery in Scarsdale village run by a pastry chef trained in France, turning out croissants, éclairs and a case of cakes made on the premises. There are a few tables inside and coffee to go with it. Scarsdale's village center is a short strip of shops around the train station, and this is the one people cross the county for.
Tue to Sat, 7am to 6pm. Sun, 8am to 3pm. Closed Mon
Open on Christopher Street since 1895 and run by the Wong family since 1980. Glass jars and brass scoops sit along the counter, burlap sacks fill the floor, and the blends carry the names of customers who used to come in, including one named for Katharine Hepburn. You buy by the weight rather than by the cup.
Mon to Sat, 10am to 7pm. Sun, 11am to 5pm
A Chinatown bakery and coffee counter opened in 1968 by Mr and Mrs Chan, who had come from Taishan. After more than fifty years on Bayard Street it moved to a larger space at 41 Mott. A roast pork bun and a cup of coffee is what people go in for.
Daily, 8:30am to 7:30pm
The second location of a Bushwick shop sits on Seneca at Madison. Order espresso at the counter. A few seats face a pastry case. It is the nearest proper coffee to the Seneca Avenue M stop.
Monday to Friday 7am to 5pm, Saturday and Sunday 8am to 5pm
A Chinese bakery on Hylan Boulevard, the first on the island, opened after a soft launch a few years back. Egg tarts, Portuguese custard tarts, pineapple buns and a case of cheesecakes, with matcha lattes and coffee to go with them. You take a tray and a pair of tongs at the door.
Daily, 7am to 6pm
A Yemeni coffeehouse on New Dorp Lane pouring adeni chai and cardamom-heavy coffee alongside the usual espresso drinks, with pistachio cake and honeycomb bread to go with it. It keeps hours nothing else on the lane keeps, to ten most nights and midnight on the weekend. Tables fill with people who are staying a while.
Mon to Thu, 7am to 10pm. Fri and Sat, 8am to midnight. Sun, 8am to 10pm
A café on West 238th between Broadway and Riverdale Avenue that does espresso in the morning and wine later, with baked goods and sandwiches made on the premises. It opens at seven on weekdays. There are small tables inside and the counter turns over quickly, so you are not waiting for a seat. The same owners run places in Inwood and Yonkers.
Mon to Fri, 7am to 8pm. Sat, 8am to 8pm. Sun, 9am to 6pm
East 140th Street gets coffee from seven on weekdays here. Pastries sit beside a short breakfast and lunch menu. It is the kind of place where people work at the tables for an hour, and it has a second counter operation nearby. Mott Haven did not have one of these until it did.
Mon to Fri, 7am to 4pm. Sat and Sun, 8am to 4pm
A Webster Avenue diner counter that opens at six in the morning six days a week. Eggs, coffee in a mug, a griddle and a row of stools. Nothing about it has been updated and nothing about it needs to be.
Mon to Sat, 6am to 4pm. Sun, 7am to 3pm
A Greek cafe on Broadway with a refrigerated case of galaktoboureko, ekmek and cakes cut to order, and a coffee counter that works from six in the morning until half past one the next night. People order a frappe and sit an hour at a marble-top table without anyone minding. There is waiter service at the tables rather than a line at a register. The Astoria branch is one of three, the others being in Bay Ridge and on the Upper West Side.
Daily, 6am to 1:30am
A small café on a tree-lined block of 75th between First and York, roasting its own coffee and not doing much else. A few seats are inside and a bench is out front. The line is four people at worst. It is the closest real coffee to Bohemian National Hall and it opens at seven on a weekday.
Mon to Fri, 7am to 5pm. Sat and Sun, 8am to 5pm
The 32nd Street branch opens at five in the morning, which nothing else on this block does. Trays and tongs at the door, then a wall of milk bread, red bean buns, cream-filled pastries and the sweet-savory garlic bread, and a coffee counter at the back. Seats upstairs if you want to sit with it.
Mon to Wed and Sun, 5am to 10pm. Thu to Sat, 5am to 11pm
Theo Peck's counter on Myrtle Avenue, open from 7am, pouring La Colombe and selling prepared food by the pound. Rotisserie chicken and brisket by the pound, with matzo ball soup made in house. He has been on this block about ten years and most of the trade is people who live within a few streets.
Daily, 7am to 5pm
A coffee shop on East 161st Street that has been open since 1955, two blocks from the Bronx Music Hall door. It is a griddle, a row of stools and a short menu of eggs and sandwiches, with coffee poured into a mug rather than a cup with a lid. It opens at half past six in the morning every day of the week. Nothing about the place has been styled.
Mon to Sat, 6:30am to 5:30pm. Sun, 6:30am to 3:30pm
A donut counter on Manhattan Avenue with counter stools, waitresses in mint-green uniforms and a fryer going from 4:30 in the morning. The red velvet and the honey dip are the ones people come back for. Bring cash.
Mon to Wed 4:30am to 6pm. Thu and Fri 4:30am to 7pm. Sat 5am to 7pm. Sun 5:30am to 6pm
Pasquale Albanese started this on Bleecker Street in 1907 and the Longo family bought it in 1958. Burlap sacks of green and roasted beans line the floor and the smell reaches the sidewalk. There is a small counter for espresso and iced coffee if you do not want a pound of beans.
Mon to Fri, 8am to 7pm. Sat, 9am to 7pm. Sun, 10am to 6pm
Four owners of Ethiopian, Turkish and Afghan background opened this at the top of Halsey Street in autumn 2025. The espresso is pulled from Ethiopian beans roasted by Red House, and alongside it are Oromo chai, Yemeni-style karak and Turkish and Afghan teas. Omar Bareentto built it around booths with outlets rather than a takeout window, and said so plainly: he does not like businesses opening in Newark with only to-go options.
Mon to Fri, 7am to 10pm. Sat, 10am to 10pm. Sun, 11am to 8pm
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 independent coffee shop on Rockaway Beach Boulevard doing espresso, cold brew, pressed juice and acai bowls, with pastries and savory croissants from the case and sandwiches made to order. It opens at seven on weekdays and eight at weekends and shuts at three, so it is a morning and early-afternoon operation. Surfers come in wet, which tells you how seriously the counter takes a dress code.
Mon to Fri, 7am to 3pm. Sat and Sun, 8am to 3pm
A corner café on Fourth Avenue at Carroll Street, doing breakfast sandwiches, muffins baked on site and coffee to sit with. It is the daytime counterweight to a strip that is otherwise garages and new towers. Tables turn slowly and nobody minds.
Mon to Fri, 7:30am to 4pm. Sat and Sun, 8am to 4pm
The oldest bakery in Queens, on Seneca since 1934, from when this part of Ridgewood spoke German and worked in the breweries. Traditional German cookies and breads are still on the counter alongside newer things, and there is a coffee bar inside now. It opens at 6am.
Monday to Saturday 6am to 8pm, Sunday 7am to 6pm
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
A small breakfast place on Morris Street doing eggs, sandwiches and espresso, open from half past six on a weekday. It writes its name in lower case and keeps the menu to what it can do well before lunch. There is a second sam a.m. in Bergen-Lafayette that has closed, so this Paulus Hook address is the one that trades.
Mon to Fri, 6:30am to 3:30pm. Sat and Sun, 8am to 2:30pm
The bakery storefront two doors down from the pizzeria, selling espresso and pastries from early in the morning, with bread by the loaf. It is a counter with a handful of tables rather than somewhere you settle in for hours. The same operators run both addresses on this block.
Daily, roughly 7am to 5pm. The operator does not publish these, so treat them as approximate
Coffee gives way to beer and wine at this Riverdale Avenue café just off West 238th. It runs from eight in the morning until ten at night every day. There is a food menu alongside the drinks, so it works as a meal or as a cup. The ten o'clock close is unusual for a café anywhere in the Bronx.
Daily, 8am to 10pm
A micro roastery on Grattan Street with a cafe counter at the front of the same daylit space. They roast on site and run public cuppings where anyone can taste what is currently on the bar. You order at the counter and sit at the long tables.
Weekdays 7am to 5pm. Weekends 8am to 5pm.
Jim Lahey's bakery, with pizza bianca cut off the slab at the counter. A few stools face the ovens.
Daily, 7am to 7pm
The counter directly across from the Morgan Avenue L stairs, and the one the loft buildings on Bogart Street run on. Coffee, bagels and sandwiches ordered standing up. Independently owned, with two other Brooklyn shops under the same name.
Monday to Friday 7am to 7pm. Saturday and Sunday 8am to 7pm.
Sybil Bernard-Kerrutt was a hairdresser from Guyana who started selling bread to friends, opened her first bakery in Jamaica in 1976, and later put this flagship in a yellow and turquoise triangular building on Liberty Avenue. Pine tarts, which are caramelized pineapple folded into a pastry triangle, are what to buy, by the half dozen. The currant roll is the other one. The savory side runs to pepper pot, the Guyanese beef stew made with cassareep, and goat roti. There is a counter line most of the day and it moves.
Mon to Thu and Sun, 6:30am to 10pm. Fri and Sat, 6:30am to 11:30pm
A coffee and tea merchant on Broad Street trading since 1869, still family owned, selling beans by the pound alongside roasted nuts and boiled sweets. The fittings are old and the smell carries out onto the sidewalk. It is a shop with a counter rather than a café with seats, so you take the cup with you.
Mon to Fri, 7:30am to 3:30pm. Sat, 9am to 2pm. Closed Sun
Tongs and a metal tray at the door, then you load up on single-serving buns and pay at the register. Roast pork, taro, red bean, salted egg yolk, plus egg tarts and slices of Swiss roll, most of it between two and four dollars. Coffee and milk tea come from the counter at the back and there are a few seats if you want to sit.
Daily, 7:30am to 7pm
A coffee shop on West Nyack Road that opens at six in the morning and keeps going into the evening, serving espresso and filter with pastry. There is a second store across the New Jersey line in Montvale. Seating is limited and most of the counter trade is on the way somewhere else.
Mon to Sat, 6am to 8pm. Sun, 7am to 7pm
A Japanese bakery on Murray Street run by the family behind the Takahachi sushi restaurants, selling curry bread and matcha pastries alongside drip coffee at a counter. Most of the trade is people carrying a bag back to a desk. There are a few seats by the window if you want to sit with it.
Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 6pm. Saturday, 9am to 6pm. Closed Sunday
A Portuguese bakery and café on Ferry Street that opens at five in the morning, selling papo-secos, custard tarts and coffee over a long counter. There is a second Teixeira's on Kossuth Street. The bread comes out through the day and most of the trade is people buying a bag of it on the way past.
Daily, 5am to 8pm
The village coffee counter, open at six in the morning on Wheeler Avenue and busiest with people walking down to the train. Espresso, drip and pastry, ordered at the counter, with tables inside and a few on the sidewalk. The same owners run a counter in Croton-on-Hudson and one inside Phelps Hospital in Sleepy Hollow, and this is the storefront.
Mon to Fri, 6am to 5pm. Sat, 6:30am to 6pm. Sun, 7am to 5pm
A coffee shop on West 16th just east of Eighth that also does eggs, sandwiches and a burger, from a counter you order at rather than a table you are seated at. Wooden chairs, old framed prints on the walls, mugs rather than paper cups if you are staying. It opens at eight and runs to nine at night every day of the week, which is a longer day than anything else on this block.
Mon to Sun, 8am to 9pm
A café on Mamaroneck Avenue that gives all of its profit to local charities, which is the whole reason it exists rather than a line on a chalkboard. The coffee is Rainforest Alliance certified and the pastry comes in from New York bakeries. There is a counter of gourmet truffles and bulk candy on the way out.
Mon to Fri, 7am to 6pm. Sat and Sun, 8am to 6pm
Variety roasts on site here and the smell of it is the first thing you get through the door. Bright, big enough to sit in, and open until 9pm, which almost nothing else on Wyckoff manages.
Daily 7am to 9pm
The Graham Avenue branch of a Bushwick roaster that started on Wyckoff Avenue in 2008. It stays open until 9pm, which is unusual for coffee anywhere near these venues. Counter service and enough tables to sit down.
Daily 7am to 9pm.
Antonio Veniero opened this pasticceria on East 11th Street in September 1894 and the pastry case still runs the length of the front. Cannoli are filled to order and you can sit down with an espresso behind the counter. They stop seating half an hour before close.
Sun to Thu, 8am to 10pm. Fri and Sat, 8am to 11pm
Sfogliatelle and an espresso from the bakery that brought the old Prince Street name back in 2021. The Dapolito family baked under that green sign from 1920 until the storefront went dark.
Daily, 6am to 8pm
A narrow Milanese café on 73rd just off Madison, dark wood and a crowded bar, doing espresso and pressed panini from eight in the morning. The cappuccino is the thing people come back for and the sandwiches are made to order behind the counter. There is a proper kitchen at the back doing pasta if you want to sit down, but the front is where it works as a stop.
Mon to Fri, 8am to 10pm. Sat and Sun, 9am to 10pm. The kitchen closes at 9:30pm
An Italian bakery under the elevated 6 train on Buhre Avenue, started in 1968 by Carmine Zeppieri on nothing but S-rolls and pane di casa and now run by his sons and grandsons. The counter carries bread, sfogliatelle, cannoli and coffee from six in the morning until eight at night, seven days a week. It takes cash only, so stop at a machine on the way.
Daily, 6am to 8pm. Cash only