Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you’re a coffee connoisseur and you’re looking for a place to shop, then you’ll need to visit a coffee shop. They offer a wide selection of whole beans from all over the world. They also sell unique trinkets and kitchenware.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions to their coffee beans. Some shops offer coffee beans in bulk.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee seller that specializes in international brews, loose teas and a selection.

When you walk into this old-school West Village shop, the smell of fresh roasting beans fills your nostrils. The sacks of dark roast coffee beans brown beans are stacked on the shelves along with sugar jars, coffee-making equipment as well as tea accessories.

The first restaurant opened in 1907, Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrants Patsy Albanese. Greenwich Village at the time was experiencing an influx Italian immigrants, who established businesses to meet their culinary needs. Albanese named her shop after the popular Puerto Rican coffee she imported (and sold) – – a drink that was so popular that even the Pope took a sip.

Today, Porto Rico sells 130 varieties of beans from all over the world at three locations in New York City including their Bleecker Street location, Essex Market and online. Porto Rico also roasts their own beans and offers wholesale coffee beans uk distribution for 350 restaurants in NYC, Brooklyn and Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, current owner and president, grew up in the family bakery on Bleecker Street, where his father was the owner of Porto Rico. He continues to operate the shop in a similar way as his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

Located along Grattan Street in Morgantown, Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood, Sey Coffee is both a roaster and coffee shop. Tobin Polk, Lance Schnorenberg and their 33-year-old co-founders began roasting coffee in the loft on the fourth floor, just around the corner in the year 2011. They called it Lofted Coffee. Local clients included Greenpoint’s Budin and Soho cart services Peddler and Peddler.

Sey’s reliance on micro-lots — or even whole harvests from single farmers has earned it the respect of discerning New York City coffee aficionados. In the past, they made a six-bag micro-lot purchase of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai 785 from Brazil’s Espirito Santo region. the Coffee Bean shop beans were carefully picked at peak ripeness, removed by flotation to eliminate defects and dried fermented for 36 hours prior to being dried on the farm. The result is a cup that is fragrant with hints of melons and berries.

Sey’s focus on holistically improving the well-being of staff, customers, and growers extends beyond the shop. It uses biodegradable disposables and composts, preventing waste from garbage and converting it into substances that reduce harmful greenhouse gases and enrich the soil. It also eliminates gratuity, which places baristas in the position to help sustain their livelihoods as well as encourage them to concentrate on their art.

La Cabra

La Cabra, a modern specialty coffee company, was founded in Aarhus in Denmark in 2012. The company started with a modest store and a dedicated staff. Their innovative and honest method of providing an exceptional coffee experience has earned them a loyal following, not just in their home town and across the globe.

La Carba follows a strict procedure to find their perfect beans. They search through hundreds of lots each year to find beans that fit their ideals. They then roast them very light, adjusting the desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees a greater clarity and a more vibrant taste.

The East Village store, which opened in October last year was praised for its top-quality pour-overs as well as its baked goods, overseen by Jared Sexton. He previously worked at Bien Cuit, Dominique Ansel and other coffee houses.

The shop uses the La Marzocco Modbar and the cups, plates, and bowls are custom-designed by Wurtz ceramics, a father and son studio located in Horsens. In a recent interview with Atlanta Coffee Shops, General Manager Ian Walla reveals that La Cabra serves approximately 250 different types of coffees each year, and usually has seven or eight varieties available at any given point.

The Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit coffee retailer which roasts on-site and brews on demand, with each cup of coffee roasted and brewed to your specifications in less than one minute. It scour countries far and far to find the finest, directly sourced specialty beans that provide customers with a choice and quality coffee beans.

Their on-site roaster utilizes fluid bed technology that is quite different from the drum-type machines that are commonly used in most UK coffee houses. The beans are blown around in a heated container by high-speed air which keeps the beans in a suspended state and allows roasting to happen at a consistent rate throughout the machine.

I tried the Sumatran coffee and it was very rich with a velvety mouthfeel, dark chocolate aroma was evident and the coffee began to cool as you sip and subtle aromas of citrus fruit were detected.

The roasted coffee beans shop will be poured into the Eversys Super-Automatic Brewing Machines to be brewed according your specifications within less than a minute. Customers can select from a selection of nine single origin choices and a variety of blends.

Parlor Coffee

Founded in 2012 in the back of a barbershop equipped with an espresso machine that was single-group, Parlor Coffee has become a growing roastery, whose beans can be found in top restaurants, cafes and home brewers in the city. Parlor is dedicated to sourcing top-quality beans from around the globe, each of which has endured a laborious journey before reaching the hands of its roasters.

In their own words the owners “have an unstoppable passion for craft and a belief that good coffee should be available to everyone.” They achieve that with their down-to-earth streetscape that is a mix of residential and commercial. Think compost bins, chalkboards handmade up-cycled products, and a simple deco.

They roast and brew their own blends and single-origins (there were six at the time I was there) They also have cuppings on Sundays that are open to the public. Imagine it as a brewery tasting area where you can smell and taste the beans in the ground. They range from earthy to chocolatey (one was similar to tomato!). They’re off the beaten path, but worthwhile to visit.