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Featured Photo: Crystalline caffeine. (Credit: Annie Cavanagh and David McCarthy, Wellcome Images.) Coffee has all sorts of interesting organic compounds that have helped cement it as a longtime favorite for sleep-deprived people around the world. Arguably, the most famous...
Location: 301 West Broadway (between Canal and Grand), 136 E 13th Street (between 3rd and 4th Ave.) While it’s a lot of fun to go to different cafés all the time, I feel like a major component of a place’s long-term...
Location: 43 Canal Street (Between Ludlow and Orchard) It’s always nice to know that no matter how fancy or simple a restaurant is, that a well-made piece of fried chicken will keep people coming back again and again. Fried chicken...
Location: 590 Avenue of the Americas. While most of my espresso adventures have had me traversing around the island of Manhattan, I have been fortunate to have a very good café a stone’s throw from my house in...
Over this past summer, I had the opportunity to spend some time on my own in London. While I personally think that traveling is probably more fun when one has other people to share the experience with, I...
Location: 30 West 8th Street (Between 5th and 6th Ave). Stumptown Roasters, of Portland, Oregon, has been on my radar for some time now, as one of the “Big Three” of the so-called Third Wave of Coffee. (The...
Let’s take a moment to talk about Iron Chef. Not the one that’s being made right now, I’m talking about the original, 料理の鉄人 (Ryouri no Tetsujin). Originally airing in Japan from 1993-1999 and syndicated on Food Network immediately...
Location: 115 St Marks Place (btwn 1st Avenue & Avenue A). Lower East Side is full of really good places to grab a cup of coffee, and Box Kite is no exception. Right next to Tompkins Square Park, ...
Location: 220 Church Street. A quick one – At the high recommendation of one of the baristas of Everyman Espresso, I took a swing by Arcade Bakery down in the Financial District. Honestly, I have no idea how...
Most of the espresso bars in NYC have loyalty cards of some variety – punch cards that after some arbitrary number of purchased beverages let you get something free from their menu. But less common is the notion...