1. Sip Like a Local, Brewed with Grit: Black Brick Coffee
Black Brick Coffee is a cozy, softly-lit café that serves Stumptown Coffee and Dough donuts in a quiet atmosphere. I started here with a double espresso and a freshly baked pastry. The low-key café has a warm and welcoming ambiance with vintage décor, a giant swing chair, and a charming back patio for sipping morning coffee outside.
The café serves a variety of standard coffee such as americano, single and double espresso, cappuccino, macchiato, and latte, along with specialty coffee drinks like single-origin French presses, nitrox, Chemex, and pour-over coffee.
Drinks are accompanied by a selection of freshly baked pastries, mouthwatering donuts, and other baked goods, and the café is open all day, seven days a week.
Black Brick Coffee, 300 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11249, Phone: 718-384-0075
2. Craft Meets Clean Lines: Blue Bottle Coffee
Located in the historic Lewis Steel Building on North 4th Street, Blue Bottle Coffee is a multi-roaster coffee chain that specializes in roasting, brewing, and serving artisan coffee using classic coffee-crafting devices. Once known for steel manufacturing, Williamsburg is now a leader in the arts, crafts, and creative scene, and Blue Bottle Coffee fits right in.
Boasting a beautifully restored 1958 Faema Urania espresso machine, a vintage Probat roaster, a La Marzocco espresso machine, and Japanese Kyoto-style ice-coffee drippers, the trendy café serves a variety of standard coffee, along with specialty coffee drinks like single-origin French presses, nitrox, Chemex, and pour-over coffee.
Blue Bottle Coffee, 76 N. 4th Street, Store A, Brooklyn, NY 11249
3. Brunch with Flair, Brew with Soul: Cafe Colette
Cafe Colette is a casual American eatery with a vintage tin ceiling and zinc bar that serves brunch, lunch, dinner, and excellent coffee in a relaxed, laid-back ambiance. The café boasts a beautiful greenhouse garden, which is ideal for quiet moments or lazy brunches, and a farm-to-table menu boasts simple, rustic food prepared with fresh, locally sourced ingredients from artisanal producers and farmers. The café serves a variety of standard coffee such as americano, single and double espresso, cappuccino, macchiato, and latte, along with a range of casual wines, craft beers, and handcrafted cocktails. Cafe Colette is open for lunch and dinner, seven days a week.
Cafe Colette, 79 Berry St, Brooklyn, NY 11249
4. Rainforest to Roast, No Compromises: Devocion Cafe
Based inside an industrial brick building and former warehouse when the neighborhood was a working waterfront district, Devocion Cafe is a hip, chic café that serves thoughtfully-sourced Colombian coffee. The coffee house boasts steel beams; exposed brick walls flanked with greenery, natural light from a large skylight, and plenty of comfortable seating options, including plush leather sofas. The café has a roasting room where guests can see the beans being roasted to perfection before sipping a variety of coffees from drip, French press, and espresso to pour-over and cold brews. Devoción Café is open for breakfast, lunch, and early dinner, seven days a week.
Devocion Cafe, 69 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY 11249, Phone: 718-285-6180
5. Cafe Meets Clubhouse: Freehold Brooklyn
The Freehold is a bar, coffee shop and restaurant with a hotel-lobby-like space where patrons can enjoy great coffee from Stumptown Coffee Roasters and teas from Harney & Sons Teas and Somage Teas gastropub fare, a variety of fine wines, craft beers and cocktails, along with stand-up comedy or live music. Freehold boasts trendy décor and a relaxed, laid-back ambiance and has a charming outdoor space with grassy lawns for alfresco-style dining, where visitors can enjoy brunch, lunch, and dinner every day of the week.
Freehold, 45 S 3rd St, Brooklyn, NY 11249, Phone: 718-388-7591
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6. Locally Roasted, Globally Cool: Partners Coffee
Partners Coffee is a Brooklyn roastery and coffee shop that serves gourmet coffee and offers coffee education classes. Formerly known as Toby’s Estate, which was founded by attorney-turned-barista Toby Smith in 1997, Partners Coffee is now helmed by Australian couple Amber Jacobsen and Adam Boyd and offers locally-roasted coffee from thoughtfully-sourced beans to drink in or take home in bright packaging. The café serves a selection of freshly baked pastries and sandwiches and has a Partners Brew School that offers a wide range of brewing for people wanting to learn how to make the perfect cup of coffee in a variety of methods.
Partners Coffee, 125 N 6th St, Brooklyn, NY 11249, Phone: 347-586-0063
7. Experience the Theater of Coffee: Starbucks Reserve
The Starbucks Reserve is a massive roastery is Seattle-based coffee Starbucks chain’s high-end version of the regular coffee shop. The Reserve Roastery is large and spacious and caters to more upscale clientele with trendy bars selling handcrafted cocktails, and gourmet deli-style fare. The facility has three large roasters, producing freshly roasted thoughtfully sourced beans all day, and freshly baked pastries are sourced from a local Brooklyn commissary. Specialty drinks include nitro draft latte, hazelnut Bianco latte (espresso with hazelnut praline-infused), and espresso-based ganache Signature cocktails include a Black & White Manhattan, combining coffee, bourbon, and vermouth.
Starbucks Reserve, 154 N 7th St, Brooklyn, NY 11211, Phone: 718-384-0152
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