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Espresso Train : Stumptown Roasters

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...

Espresso Train : Box Kite

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, ...

The Disloyalty Card

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...

Espresso Train: Ground Central

Location: 155 East 52nd Street (Between 3rd Ave. & Lexington Ave.) One of the really cool things about all the espresso places around New York City is how wildly different they can look and feel between one another....

Espresso Train : Rex Coffee

Location: 864 10th Ave, New York, NY 10019 Unlike what some maps resembling NYC’s subway system would have you believe, Rex Coffee sits about half a mile away from Columbus Circle, just south of John Jay College. I...