StreetLevel: New Coffee Shop for 4th Avenue
As noted in a Food & Drink Roundup a couple weeks ago, 4th Avenue has a new coffee shop. Cafe 474, which is between 10th and 11th streets, has cups of drip starting at $1.50 and shots of espresso for $2.25. There’s also an assortment of baked goods from Blue Sky and Little Buddy. One…
As noted in a Food & Drink Roundup a couple weeks ago, 4th Avenue has a new coffee shop. Cafe 474, which is between 10th and 11th streets, has cups of drip starting at $1.50 and shots of espresso for $2.25. There’s also an assortment of baked goods from Blue Sky and Little Buddy. One of 474’s owners used to run a coffee truck. GMAP
oddly, i DO like starbucks coffee (and im NOT trying to be contrarian). i treat myself to their plain hot or cold coffee sometimes.
ive been a coffee drinker since i was THREE!!!! i refused to go to school until i had at least 2 cups of coffee. it was great, it kept me focused, but the teachers hated the fact that every morning like clockwork i had to pee like a racehorse at like 10am. we also had a youre only allowed to go to the bathroom twice per semester rule :-/ which was ridiculous. anwyay, whatever. i guess ill have to try it. the only kind of coffee i dont like is weak coffee.. but i can never really tell the difference much between brands. maybe all the brands ive tried are basically the same tho, i dont know.
i will say im not a huge fan of maxwell house and foldgers, which is essentially what i grew up on
*rob*
I don’t want it any more expensive Rob. Just tastier.
Until recently when Stumptown, La Columbe and all these others came into town, NYC had shit for coffee.
I’d rather drink lighter fluid than Starbucks.
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NYC is SO behind the times when it comes to coffee.
::rolls eyes::
yeah, as if coffee needs get even more expensive or snooty. please. you squish water thru beans and you have coffee.
*rob*
The original Intelligentsia was on Broadway, the roasting works was in Old Town. I left Chicago before the Randolph St. place. But I know they sent an employee to NYC last year to scout the market, so soon, hopefully.
Btw, I didn’t know Get Fresh had it. We used to roast a coffee there from a Brazillian estate called Fazenda Vista Allegra. I would LOVE to get my hands on that.
Oh wow, thanks for the info WTbound! I mean…I know they serve Intelligentsia at a few places (they also have it at Get Fresh Table and Market on 5th Avenue I mentioned earlier) but I meant like a free-standing coffee shop.
I guess it’s the same that places carry these brands, but I just like the actual Intelligentsia coffee shop on E. Randolph in Chicago so much that I wish they’d open up a full fledge operation here.
Someday. NYC is SO behind the times when it comes to coffee. We are just in the past couple years starting to get it.
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Intelligentsia is indeed in the NYC market and wanting to expand. The chocolate place on 7th used to have their coffee and a place in Manhattan by city hall has it. There was talk of a place opening in South Slope that had it, but I didn’t follow up. I used to work at the original one in Chicago a gazillion years ago and keep up with those guys.
Rob will not go into any cafe period
will not go. Ehhh, I need coffee now too!
This is gonna go down as one of the memorable posts of 2010.