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City Bakery
3 W 18th St.
b/w 5th & 6th Ave.
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1.9
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City Bakery owner-and-baker Maury Rubin tempts us with daily flavors throughout February at his 17th Annual City Bakery Hot Chocolate Festival. His creative con-cocoa-tions includ.. >
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Financier
62 Stone St.
b/w Mill Ln. & William St.
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2.9
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financier patisserie is in lower manhattan down in the wall street area. it has several branches , one on stone street, another on cedar street. where is stone street and cedar str.. >
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Chocolat Michel Cluizel
888 Broadway, 1st Fl.
b/w 19th & 20th St.
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$$$$$
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3.4
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I overhear the nice guy behind the bar: “It’s like drinking melted chocolate.” Say no more; I’m in for a single shot of hot cocoa. I’m at Michel Cluizel, world-renowned Parisian c.. >
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Le Pain Quotidien
252 E 77th St.
b/w 2nd & 3rd Ave.
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3
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Le Pain Quotidien is a chain that touts organic products and a homey vibe. The tables are rustic and many of them communal. All this comes at a premium. DMR and I ate at the one.. >
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Once Upon a Tart
135 Sullivan St.
b/w Prince & Houston St.
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$$$$$
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3.1
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the first time i came here with chich (i think. or cynthia?), i had no idea where i was. but now that i’ve spent some more time in soho and more time staring at google maps, i can .. >
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Tisserie
857 Broadway
at 17th St.
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$$$$$
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2.8
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I have tried many items among the seemingly endless array of baked goods, sandwiches, and pizzas at Tisserie, but it wasn't until I happened upon its 53% Cacao Venezuelan Brownie t.. >
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Sundaes & Cones
95 E 10th St.
b/w 3rd & 4th Ave.
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$$$$$
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3.3
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Dear Boo, It's friggin HOT out there. Seriously, what the F? A minute ago it was 70 degrees and I was carrying around a jacket for post 7pm wear. Now it's like New York has been t.. >
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Dean & Deluca
560 Broadway
b/w Prince & Spring St.
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$$$$$
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I hate over-priced food, but there is a soft spot in my heart for Dean & Deluca. Probably because I could spend hours roaming the big one in Soho (even though I’ve never actuall.. >
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Joe The Art of Coffee
141 Waverly Pl.
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$$$$$
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3
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In my undergrad days, The Haymarket was my regular coffee shop spot. The coffee wasn't great, but it was cheap and the vegan anarchist baristas didn't care if you sat all day, ord.. >
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Starbucks
370 7th Ave., Ste 1
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2.8
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Ever since I read about Starbucks acquiring the Clover Brewing System last week, I've struggled with trying to decide how I feel about it. I read up on it this week and talked to J.. >
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Grey Dog Coffee
33 Carmine St.
b/w Bedford & Bleecker St.
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$$$$$
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3.2
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So we found ourselves in the West Village this sunny Sunday morning, and decided it was the perfect time to check out the Grey Dog Cafe, which the hubby informed me was "the place .. >
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Sweet Melissa
75 W Houston St.
at W Broadway
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2.7
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Sweet Melissa is expanding into the space next door and, according to the person at the counter, is planning to open in April. The new space will serve beer and wine (always a good.. >
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Hiroko's Place
75 Thompson St.
b/w Spring & Broome St.
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2.6
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After Won Jo, we decided it was time for dessert. Somehow we ended up in Soho, and stumbled upon a cute little Japanese cafe. Their siphon technique of brewing coffee ultimately co.. >
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FIKA
41 W 58th St.
b/w 5th & 6th Ave.
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$$$$$
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3.3
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Take a break from the mad 5th Avenue Christmas rush, turn right on 58th Street and stop into FIKA, a contemporary Swedish coffee/sweets/sandwich shop. You'll be able to enjoy junip.. >
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MUDtruck
4th Ave. at 8th St.
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$$$$$
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2.6
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The friendly orange truck parked near the Astor Place Uptown 6 Station is a familiar sight to East Villagers, and a pleasing alternative to the well-known Corporate behemoth, which.. >
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Choux Factory
865 1st Ave.
at 48th St.
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If you don't follow my flickr account, you'll miss a lot of stuff. I've somehow managed to procrastinate not only in school work but also in blogging, which makes you wonder what I.. >
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Think Coffee
248 Mercer St.
at 3rd St.
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$$$$$
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clay tipped me off to this coffee shop just down the street from his dorm. his usual scrabble-playing locale with jim. while i haven’t yet played scrabble here (this is my first tr.. >
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Fauchon
442 Park Ave.
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3.1
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I’d start off with something witty to grab your attention (or pretend I have Tourette’s) but I think this list is sufficient:.. >
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Caffe Reggio
119 MacDougal St.
b/w Minetta Ln. & W 3rd St.
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$$$$$
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Last Thursday I went to Friendly's in Midland Park with my brother, Hubert (yes, that's his name, yes, that's his LJ, yes, he's an odd fellow, and yes, ladeez, he's single!), and h.. >
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Cafe Lalo
201 W 83rd St.
b/w Broadway & Amsterdam Ave.
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$$$$$
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4.1
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Since my Food Science and Technology book is used, it has some highlighting and scribbled notes in the margins (I've deduced that the former owner was female since I've rarely seen.. >
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Cafe Mozart
154 W 70th St.
at Broadway
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$$$$$
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3
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w 70th st btwn b’way & amsterdam after my late-ish pcr setup (which turned out to be pointless…d’oh) and C’s pseudo-recovery from his cold symptoms, we met up on the west side .. >
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sNice
45 8th Ave.
at W 4th St.
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$$$$$
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A hot new name in food, S'Nice is a comfy sandwich shop located in the West Village (a few doors down from the Chocolate Bar). Despite its liberal use of tempeh and tofu, it's har.. >
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Podunk
231 E 5th St.
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$$$$$
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When we walked into Podunk, a tiny tea shop on a strangely quiet block of 5th Street, J and I were desperate for cardamom cake. The proprietress seemed tickled that such a craving.. >
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Mei Lai Wah Coffeehouse
64 Bayard St.
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$$$$$
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3.4
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HI THERE. I didn't know how to start this entry, so I thought I'd thought I'd take the weight off myself of having to fulfill any expectations of coming up with something amusing (.. >
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Sympathy For The Kettle
109 St. Marks Pl.
at 1st Ave.
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$$$$$
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Perfect solution~ tea to counter all that oil and fat from hotdog, right next door is a pretty little tea parlor Sympathy for the Kettle. The seatings are very limited. I got Kyoto.. >
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71 Irving Place
71 Irving Pl.
b/w 18th & 19th St.
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$$$$$
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Although I’ve spent a lot of time at 71 Irving, I just thought of blogging cafes as well (Since cafes are always a handy thing for the resident and visitor of any locale). I spent .. >
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Gimme Coffee
495 Lorimer St.
b/w Grand & Powers St.
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$$$$$
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I know I haven’t written in ages, but it’s just the fact that I haven’t really found anything tasty around the Upper East Side that is new to me. Sure, there’s Alice’s Tea Cup and .. >
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Roebling Tea Room
143 Roebling St.
at Metropolitan Ave.
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$$$$$
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For $6.00 I was impressed with the frittata at the Roebling Tea Room. Tasty and light, it was chock full of tomatoes and asparagus. Served with a side of lightly-dressed arugula, i.. >
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Fortunato Brothers
289 Manhattan Ave.
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3.3
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Yesterday’s recovery walk took us to Fortunato Brothers bakery, one of the handful of old-school Italian holdouts near Williamsburg’s Graham Avenue. Their pignoli cookies and tarts.. >
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Sip
998 Amsterdam Ave.
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$$$$$
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2.8
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Well, not really enough bars to call it a crawl, but I did head up to Columbia University and, after cutting through the campus I headed down Amsterdam Avenue where I found a few b.. >
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Society Coffee
2104 Frederick Douglass Blvd
b/w 113th & 114th St.
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$$$$$
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2.8
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Lon and I had Sunday brunch at Society Cafe Society Cafe. The slightly artsy cafe has average food, terribly slow service (I eventually got up to get my own menu.), at regular Manh.. >
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Klatch
9 Maiden Ln
b/w Broadway & Nassau St.
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$$$$$
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With great fanfare, my afternoon sweets craving announced its arrival. For the life of me, I could not decide whether I wanted a coconut doughnut from the Doughnut Plant or an oran.. >
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The Mudspot
307 E 9th St.
at 2nd Ave.
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$$$$$
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Despite, or maybe, in spite of the ubiquity of Starbucks, there are a plethora of cozy cafés strewn around Manhattan and Brooklyn. I'm always on the look out for the best cafés to .. >
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Manon Café
74 Trinity Pl.
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As my hands turned red and my eyelashes threatened to freeze together, I chastised myself for venturing out into the Arctic weather. However, it was just then that I noticed a sign.. >
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Mocca Espresso Lounge
78-82 Reade St.
at Church St.
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$$$$$
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I love the joy of discovering new places and Tribeca is full of them. I am going to go back here again on Saturday because they are having a street fair related to the Tribeca Film.. >
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McNulty's
109 Christopher St.
b/w Bleecker & Hudson St.
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$$$$$
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Walking into McNulty's in the West Village is like experiencing a bit of early 19th century America. This Manhattan purveyor of the finest coffees and teas from around the world ha.. >
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Rocco's
243 Bleecker St.
b/w Carmine & Cornelia St.
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2.7
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This old-school Italian eatery has Calabrian roots, according to Robert Sietsema (which makes it "practically paisan" to Sicilian, according to the younger Vito Corleone)... >
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Madeleine “The Crepe Lady” (at CyberCafe)
705 8th Ave.
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3.7
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A little while after discovering Tuck Shop hidden inside the CyberCafe, I noticed another sign go up in the window. “Madeleine ‘The Crepe Lady’. Making Crepes Wednesday -Sunday 1.. >
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Coffee Pot
350 W 49th St.
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$$$$$
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Not very long ago, rumors abounded that The Coffee Pot on 9th Avenue and 49th Street had shut its doors forever, that progress in the H.K. had finally driven this stodgy stalwart i.. >
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Oren's Daily Roast
177 E 87th St., Ste 409
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2.7
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I am currently recovering from bringing my camera with me...but with no batteries. Thus there are no pictures for my lunch at Gray Dog Coffee house, second outing at Doma, and Murr.. >
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Kudo Beans
49 1st Ave.
at 3rd St.
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$$$$$
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Do you long for true flavor in your coffee? Do you savor a sip of java like you would a fine wine? But most of all, do you agree that the popular practice of over-roasting coffee b.. >
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The Blind Tiger
281 Bleecker St.
at Jones St.
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We all know when the going gets tough the tough make exceptionally good double ristretto espresso, and that when life gives you lemons the only thing to do is make a hearty chili. .. >
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Blind Tiger
281 Bleecker St.
b/w 7th Ave. & Jones St.
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I don't know why, but my note-taking was really bad today. Maybe it was because I spent too much time chatting, or maybe it was my selection of bars. Who knows? I will do my best t.. >
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17 Bleecker
17 Bleecker
b/w Bowery & Lafayette
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$$$$$
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A pointed out this cafe to me as the place he goes when housingworks closes at 9 on weekdays and 7 on weekends. it’s a short couple of blocks away on bleecker, conveniently close t.. >
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Porto Rico Coffee
40 1/2 Saint Marks Pl., Ste 1
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2.8
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I swear that I am not completely addicted to coffee. The fact that fully thirty percent of my recent posts have been either about coffee houses or coffee roasters should not count .. >
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Studio Coffee
630 9th Ave.
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$$$$$
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Coffee shops that are not named Starbucks do not open up very often in this city. When they do, you can almost hear the faraway scribbling in Seattle coming from the desks of the p.. >
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Puff & Pao
105 Christopher St.
b/w Bleecker & Hudson St.
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$$$$$
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The last entry left our food-laden heroes in the chewy, buttery enclaves of Milk & Cookies, where they fended off a giant knife-wielding cookie growling, "SEE HOW YOU LIKE IT IF I .. >
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Tavalon
22 E 14th St.
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Sarah, along with a million other people, just couldn't stop talking about Otto's olive oil gelato. Although I've been interested in trying it for a long time (hey, I love olive oi.. >
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Simone
134 1st Ave.
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$$$$$
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2.8
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After a fairly, shall we say, intense day yesterday I decided to take it somewhat easier today... >
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Cafe Regular
318a 11th St.
b/w 4th & 5th Ave.
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$$$$$
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Everyone has one. A place that whisks you away to another place (induced by caffeine). A place where you feel at once at home. If you're like me,exploring the nooks and crannies of.. >
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Nascent Cafe
143 Nevins St.
at Bergen St.
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3.2
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Normally I wouldn’t flip over a coffee shop, but this one’s too cool and conveniently-located (to me) not to give a shout out to: The Nascent, located at Bergen St. and Nevins St. .. >
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St. Helen Cafe
150 Wythe Ave.
b/w N 7th & N 8th St.
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$$$$$
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Whenever I wander through Williamsburg, I always wonder what lies off Bedford Avenue? There's got to be more to all the hipster hype than this. In fact there is. Off the main avenu.. >
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Sweet Melissa
175 7th Ave.
b/w 1st & 2nd St.
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$$$$$
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3.3
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I hadn't gone to Sweet Melissa's in a long time when i wandered into Melissa Murphy's newest location in Park Slope. I had to have the butterscotch pudding, which still sets the st.. >
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Mike's Donuts
6822 5th Ave.
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Blognut’s back in Brooklyn celebrating our centesimal post with a visit to Mike’s Donuts in Bay Ridge. Mike’s has been stuffing Brooklynites full of monstrous bursting-at-the-seem.. >
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Perch Cafe
365 5th Ave.
b/w 5th & 6th St.
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$$$$$
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Friday's Lunch: Taro Sushi (ok, technically on Dean, but steps from 5th Avenue) I took a personal day from work on Friday and wound up having lunch with the China-Latina Chowhound... >
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Sweet Melissa
276 Court St.
at Douglass St.
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$$$$$
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Is there anyone who does NOT love Patisseries?? To me the Patisserie is the ultimate in decadent sweet shop, many steps up from the average cafe/coffee shop or bakery in the intri.. >
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Settepani Bakery
196 Lenox Ave.
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Last Saturday I rode over the Williamsburg Bridge to check out Brian’s new digs. I’m happy to report that you no longer have to post like a British horseback rider over the Bridge .. >
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Saint's Alp Teahouse
39 3rd Ave.
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A couple of fun eating spots I've hit over the last few weeks... >
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Tea Box Café
693 Fifth Ave.
at 54th St.
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$$$$$
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4.6
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Takashimaya's Tea Box Café is a great place for the Midtown power-shopper to unwind. It's supposed to be a serene place to eat but with the lunch hour crowd, it tends to be a bit h.. >
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Bus Stop Coffee Shop
542 Ninth Avenue
at 40th St.
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$$$$$
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I spend so much time running around, beneath, and through the Port Authority Bus Terminal that I feel it is in some ways my third home (right after the office, which is right after.. >
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Bar Panini
31 N Moore St.
b/w Hudson & Varick St.
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B Cup
212 Avenue B
at 13th St.
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Printon 56
50 W 56th St.
b/w 5th & 6th Ave.
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DT-UT
1626 2nd Ave.
b/w 84th & 85th St.
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Cima
378 Greenwich St.
at N Moore St.
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Edgar's Cafe
255 W 84th St.
b/w Broadway & W End Ave.
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Max Caffe
1262 Amsterdam Ave.
b/w 122nd & 123rd St.
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Brown Cup
334 8th Ave.
b/w 26th & 27th St.
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Viand
673 Madison Ave.
at 61st St.
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Sips Cafe
933 2nd Ave.
b/w 49th & 50th St.
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Opus 22
559 W 22nd St.
at 11th Ave.
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$$$$$
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CC's Café
496 Hudson St.
b/w Christopher & Grove St.
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