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What makes Chelsea a unique neighborhood?
- Luxury high-rises stand side by side with former factories housing art galleries in the once culturally colorful and now rather stylish neighborhood of Chelsea.
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What are some popular attractions in Chelsea?
- Home to the elevated park built atop previous railroad tracks known as the High Line and the famous Chelsea Market, the district offers much to explore.
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What can visitors find in Chelsea's coffee scene?
- Chelsea is also home to modern coffee shops, cozy cafés, and innovative coffee purveyors to meet all coffee needs.
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Where can you find great coffee in Chelsea?
- Head to one of these hot coffee spots for a great cup of joe.
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1. Grace Street
Grace Street is a Korean café and coffee shop on W. 32nd Street in New York's Koreatown that serves a variety of coffee drinks and addictive desserts like Korean doughnuts, mochi waffles, and ho-duduk - pockets of fried dough filled with cinnamon caramel. The unassuming café a range of standard coffee drinks like cappuccinos, lattes, macchiatos, americanos, and single and double shot espressos, along with signature seasonal coffee drinks and teas. Surrounded by the hustle and bustle of Koreatown, Grace Street is a great spot to stop for a coffee and a sweet treat.
17 W 32nd St, New York, NY 10001, Phone: 917-745-2125
2. La Colombe Coffee
One of Philadelphia’s most renowned coffee roasting companies, La Colombe Coffee Roasters were the first to introduce rich Italian-style espressos, lattes on tap, and excellent macchiatos to the city’s coffee scene. Boasting five coffee shops in the shop’s hometown of Philly, and several more in other cities, La Colombe has been roasting and serving traditional European coffees since 1994 with five flagship blends. Co-founders Todd Carmichael and Jean-Philippe Iberti pride themselves on creating a coffee brand with a focus on sustainability and socially responsible coffee-growing, enabling support for local farmers and producers. All the locations serve a variety of traditional, hand-poured coffee specialty coffees and espressos along with fresh pastries and other baked goods for breakfast and lunch daily.
601 W 27th St, New York, NY 10001, Phone: 646-885-0677
3. Bean&Bean
Established in 2008, Bean&Bean Coffee is a local family-run coffee roasting company with a bean-first approach that ethically sources specialty coffee beans from sustainable farms in Hawaii, Jamaica, Ethiopia, Guatemala, and Mexico, among others. Beans are freshly roasted daily at the Queens roasting plant and distributed to each of the four coffee shops around town. The coffee menu features standard coffee drinks like cappuccinos, lattes, macchiatos, americanos, and single and double shot espressos, along with seasonal specialty drinks. Milk is sourced from Hudson Valley Fresh, and freshly baked sweet treats and pastries are delivered daily from partners such as Sensible Edibles, Il Laboratorio del Gelato, and Catskill Provisions.
318 8th Avenue, New York, NY 10001, Phone: 646-869-2070
4. Bird & Branch
Bird & Branch is a casual neighborhood coffee shop owned by a husband-and-wife team that serves as a gathering spot for the community. The coffee shop serves direct-trade, single-origin Saint Frank Coffee, a company that is committed to sustainability, responsibility, and empowerment and offers a job training program for budding baristas and coffee aficionados. The coffee menu features standard coffee drinks like cappuccinos, lattes, macchiatos, americanos, and single and double shot espressos, along with signature seasonal sips like the snowy owl, the puffin, the mockingbird, mulled apple cider, and Iced passionfruit black tea. Light bites and sweet treats include prosciutto fig and cheese twists, yuzu ricotta toast, lemon bombolini, and banana walnut bread, and the café is open for breakfast and lunch, daily.
359 West 45th Street, New York, NY, 10036, Phone: 917-265-8444
5. Hanamizuki Cafe
Hanamizuki Cafe is a minimalist-chic cafe and small oasis in the heart of Herald Square on 29th Street that specializes in contemporary Japanese food such as miso soup and omusubi (rice balls with various fillings). Tucked away and almost out of sight, the tiny eatery boasts a bright, airy space and a friendly, welcoming atmosphere and serves a menu of traditional Japanese snacks, soups, side dishes, and sweet treats. Lunch specials include two rice balls, one miso soup, one side dish, and Japanese pickled vegetables, followed by mouthwatering matcha chiffon cakes. The café also serves excellent coffee to enjoy in or take away. Hanamizuki Cafe is open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner daily.
143 W 29th St, New York, NY 10001, Phone: 212-695-5533
6. Citizens of Chelsea
Established in 2016, Citizens of Chelsea is an Australian-style coffee shop that serves breakfast, lunch, and excellent coffee in a friendly and comfortable setting. The coffee shop is bright and clean with ample seating, art-adorned walls and offers a menu of standard coffee drinks like cappuccinos, lattes, macchiatos, americanos, and single and double shot espressos, along with signature seasonal coffee drinks and teas. The breakfast and lunch menu features made-from-scratch dishes prepared using locally sourced ingredients, along with freshly baked pastries and toasts and other delectable goodies. Citizens of Chelsea is a great spot for a quick lunch with friends or a grab-and-go coffee.
401 W 25th St, New York, NY 10001, Phone: 212-372-7663
7. Gotham Coffee Roasters
Founded in 2013, Gotham Coffee Roasters serves single-origin coffees that are curated and roasted by coffee veteran and shop owner Chris Calkins at the Pulley Collective in Red Hook, Brooklyn. The coffee house focuses on serving direct trade coffee and micro-lots from seasonal offerings, and the 450 square-foot coffee shop serves the highest quality coffee to both our retail and wholesale customers and specializes in forming and maintaining partnerships and providing outstanding customer service. Gotham Coffee Roasters offers a menu of standard coffee drinks like cappuccinos, lattes, macchiatos, americanos, and single and double shot espressos, along with signature seasonal coffee drinks and teas, as well as freshly baked pastries and light bites.
23 W 19th St, New York, NY 10011, Phone: 212-255-2972
8. Intelligentsia Coffee Highline Coffee Bar
Located in the High Line Hotel, Intelligentsia Coffee Highline Coffee Bar is a trendy outpost of the renowned Chicago-based direct-trade roaster that features a hip café in Chelsea with an industrial-chic setting. The coffeeshop serves the full range of Intelligentsia coffees from direct-trade sources, along with its Kilogram tea line and an exclusive sparkling iced tea, which is brewed in-house. The café also offers a selection of bakery items from Somerville’s Forge Baking Company throughout the day, and Intelligentsia’s coffee training lab is situated next to the café and provides training for caffeine enthusiasts and budding baristas.
High Line Hotel 180 10th Ave at, W 20th St, New York, NY 10011, Phone: 212-933-9736
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