New York is Super Serious About Coffee Now, Times Decides

Today the Times has a list of the top 30 places to get coffee in the city, praising New York for finally shedding its shackles as a "second-string city when it came to coffee." With places like Abraço and Café Grumpy, we can stop relying on fancy pants San Francisco companies to roast our beans and do it ourselves. Of course, this kind of dedication comes with a price, with some shops refusing to serve espresso in anything but a warm ceramic cup, or saying goodbye to cappuccino because "milk would overpower the subtle flavors of the coffee." Of course, all this hype means a backlash must be brewing, and we predict the Times will soon be running a trend piece about clean-cut scenesters swearing by their Folgers crystals.

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By Jaya Saxena in Food on March 10, 2010 2:05 PM

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eflash

for the record grumpy is native to NYC and now roast their own in greenpoint.

Greenpoint60

he trinks his coffee black without sugar

wow 14th street

Coffee destroys your Pancreas and leeches calcium out

of your bones, but we still drink it in the morning.

Nuttin wrong with cheaper Trader Joe's" French roast and make it your self with a "Mellita filter" use spring water for a better taste.

Guest

The best NY coffee comes out of Brooklyn: Gorilla. Yummy!

Guest

Here's the link: Gorilla Coffee

Greenpoint60

But that is Italian style mud

Greenpoint60

I am still waiting for German coffee to come to NY. They would make a mint. Try Jacobs

swag

The great irony being that most of that list consists of imports. (Abraço's Jamie McCormick is an SF import even.)

Just because you call your casino "New York New York" and plant it in Vegas doesn't make it New York.

krinkle cut fires

I know! I think it is sad that both Mud and Porto Rico didn't get mentioned in the article. They roast their own beans and are local.

dirty hipster

Yeah - also, La Colombe Torrefaction is from Philly

and several on the list just brew Stumptown beans

Alamo L7

Yeah, your coffee suddenly became good, because you got some Blue Bottle Coffee from SF in Brooklyn...

buffmancandy

sounds like a typical second city inferiority complex except san fran is like tenth city at best.... and yes you are below boston

dirty hipster

San Francisco is #1 at homeless people though

Papercutninja

i gotta say ouch to SF. But i concur.

virgilstarkwell

so was this plug of the ny times article part of the ad buy?

krinkle cut fires

NYC coffee sucks because most people prefer it light and sweet. ugh... I think Porto Rico Coffee deserves a medal for lasting over 100 years in this coffee wasteland.

KiljoyWasHere

I always have this trouble ordering coffee at Delis. No matter what I do I get a cup that is half milk, half sugar, and a drop of coffee.