Around the cornier from fancier fish fare at Nobu, rumor has it they source from the same provider. Head on over for better prices, much more zen, and maki named after movies: Taxi Driver anyone?
Rustic and inviting, Forgione’s food is a mix of Italian cooking, French technique and a few Southeast Asian flavors. Get the juicy cooked-under-a-brick chicken and finish with the pumpkin soufflé.
The is food described as “family-style,” - if your family makes things like the truffled-ricotta-and-honey combo is on the seasonal crostini menu, consider yourself lucky.
Not particularly strong on aesthetics, this huge Dumbo-based roasting operation has a small cafe area in the front and supplies coffee to a large number of wholesale accounts. Read more.
One of our favorite overall cafe/roasting operations in NYC, this local chain has a green coffee buyer that does direct trade with coffee farmers for all of their coffee & roasts it in Greenpoint. Read more.
This is a bit of a mystery operation, represented by their solitary shop on E 10th Street off 4th Ave in Manhattan. We don't know of any wholesale accounts at the moment.
Now with three shops, two in LIC and one in the growing western edge of Williamsburg, Sweetleaf has begun roasting at a secret Brooklyn location but will unveil their roastery to the world soon.
Formerly on the cutting edge, in the early years of NYC specialty coffee, serving single origin Stumptown beans, Variety is reinventing itself with its own Bushwick roastery and cafe.
