A gourmet cup o' Joe at Gimme! Coffee in lower Manhattan
[Flickr/Premshree Pillai]
We’ve already told you about the best places to lounge over coffee in New York, so what about drinkers who could care less about the lounging but are super-serious about the Joe? New York has actually been a little late to the artisan coffee craze that has swept West Coast cities like Seattle, Portland and San Francisco over the past decade, but the city is now home to several notable specialty coffee shops.
Cafe Grumpy: When this local mini-chain, which operates its own roasting facility in Brooklyn, opened a Chelsea outpost in 2006, they brought in two Clovers, the $11,000 machines that give baristas a wide degree of control over each single-brewed cup. When Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz wandered into the shop to try a cup, he liked it so much that he ended up buying the company that makes those machines. Cafe Grumpy’s sole Manhattan shop is just a few blocks from the GEM Hotel, with two more locations in Brooklyn. 224 West 20th Street
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