A little less newsletter
It's been a lot recently! It's about a good time to take a break.
A little music today
If you’re living here (NYC) long enough, I hope you have a favorite busker.
Mine is a guy who was playing the cello in the Bryant Park 7/D/F at 2:00a.m.
In a strong fight for second is Gabriel Mayers. Here is “Cocoon”.
If you want more, try this:
If you want to support him, follow him on patreon: www.patreon.com/gabrielmayers
He talks a lot about his love and thoughts around busking, and his meditation and how it helps him get through the day. This isn’t a paid ad, and he doesn’t know I’m shouting him out on this humbly small newsletter.
But this is New York Coffee, and he is New York.
This week’s coffee shop spotlight!
Caffè Vita! Caffè Vita is a Seattle-based coffee roaster/chain that refuses to tell me where the name comes from [at least as far as I can tell on their website]. I can only imagine it’s more useful to me than knowing the backstory of most of their C-level employees [which they happily provide], but go figure.
The café is pretty, and feels like a mix between a the bike gang hanging outside a harley dealership and harry potter. It works, magically.1
It’s not really about where they’re from though—if you’re smart, the real question is “how many songs can I steal off their playlist for my own?”
Their menu is absolutely so cool.
Based on the Sevilla, maybe it is a Spain-inspired café/menu?
Check it out here:
They also have a lot of specials. I like seeing innovation in a coffee shop, as well as an interesting menu. The drink specials on the top left of the picture above can be seen below with illustrations.
The coffee they roast in Seattle can be bought here; I love the branding and I think the medevial pop is a great move. It really screams “roasty” as a product, even if you didn’t think it was coffee at first. If you’re a coffeepreneur, take notes!
I had an awesome experience, but be careful your drink doesn’t get to expensive. Alt milk with a campfire mocha and cloud on top can run up to 10 bucks, and you’re tipping too. A café au lait is $4, though, so choose your own adventure and so on.
It’s extremely easy to park up and get coffee if you’re driving, and only a block away from the Jefferson stop on the L train.
I think this will be the last Bushwick coffee feature for a while—if I’m an hour away I can’t imagine how far my readers are.
Coming soon: Flushing spots
What’s new, Jude?
The Marquesina Coffee; part of “The Den”, SoHo
Bell Slip Social, Greenpoint
Café volt, SoHo — some kind of Nike ad café
CAFE 2BY2, NoHo
Pop-ups (thanks Coffee Klatsch, links below)
SATURDAY
At Arabica in Nolita — BOGO affogato/iced coffee and DJ — 10a.m.–2p.m.
At Secret Coffee in Bushwick — Montreal roaster 94 Celsius takeover
At Mod Ref, SoHo — Muted Entity pop-up — 11a.m.–5p.m.
At Filson, Union Square — Brooklyn Roasting Company, Loveless Coffee, Parlor Coffee, and Thoughtful Coffee tasting — 12p.m.–5p.m.
SUNDAY
Cup some Coffees with Nikolai at Principles Gowanus
At Honey Moon Coffee Shop, Ridgewood — Summer Market — 12–4p.m.
WEDNESDAY
Little Island, as if after some strange joke to make up for not inviting me to a Childish Gambino concert, is having a short residency of Té Company
At Hana House, Downtown Brooklyn — Là Viêt Coffee pop-up — 8:30a.m.–10a.m.
Break time!
Did you know I strip off all the “utm” tracking things on links?
Only to be thwarted by the ever-evil substack, adding its own garbage to tell me that 2 people clicked on the reusable bag link. As a professional newsletter writrepreneur, I’d like to formally apologize.
Not enough to do anything about it right now, but apologizing nonetheless. Sorry about that.
At least you’re only tracked once.
By “utm”, I’m referring to the stuff after the link that tells the service where you’re clicking that link from. I’m linking a spotify playlist in this article, and when I share that playlist I get the following link:
open.spotify.com/playlist/777oTcoeQw1rTsM3t14Txt?si=2f5461df75bb48b6
?si=2f5461df75bb48b6 is the stuff that’s tracking you. Removing it, like I did, gives you the same result, but you’re not tracked in the same way. You’re still being tracked by your browser, your internet provider, etc. but not the link.
Pretty much anything after the ? is tracking stuff, if you’re sending links to friends or sharing links to other coffee events, remove the tracking to be good.
I’m quite certain none of you care deeply about this as opposed to coffee, so I’ve got this beautiful picture as recompense.
And now…
I’m eating Jujube
Why aren’t you?
A recipe to come soon. This newsletter is a little short.
Thanks for tuning in!
Enjoy your coffee!
They all like to wear matching outfits, lots of cloaks, occasional violence…