Coffee Talk

June 24, 2003 Notes from the downtown coffee scene while we sip an iced coffee from Starbucks in a midtown office... Ian says reports of the first LES Starbucks have proven false: "The café that signed a lease for the empty Hallmark store at 409 Grand Street [@ Clinton] on May 30 is mid-rehab and just posted its name: Full City Coffee. Evidently it will be another 'boutique' coffeehouse in the vein of Brown and Sunshine Factory Café, not a Starbucks as previously rumored." The same Full City Coffee as the Oregon microchain?... The terrific Angelina's Bakery on Orchard St. (@ Houston/Stanton) has just added a second location on Mercer St. (@ Houston/Prince) in Soho... DailyCandy reports that the East Village's preeminent restaurant block (2nd Ave. @ 5th/6th Sts.) now boats a hypohip coffee shop, too. Blue Goose Cafe comes from none other than the team behind Jewel Bako. Like Angelina's, it stocks pizzas and such from Sullivan Street Bakery.

It's about time ... i hope they serve fake frappucinos. Hoorah for gentrification - Next, an Internet cafe, a gym, a Gap, and a pub - all on grand street. maybe they'll add the old Grand st bus back and consider mapping a subway down there. Wonder if mister man and economy candy will make it through.

Posted by: d at June 24, 2003 03:07 PM

No, no, the Gap is gonna be up on the corner of Orchard and Houston, across from Bereket.

(Actually, I heard it was gonna be a Banana Republic... anyone know?)

Posted by: deanna at June 25, 2003 12:42 PM

Are you serious? That's craziness.

Posted by: d at June 26, 2003 09:47 AM

What the frick? You guys are all nuts, who cares if its' a gap a crap or a drop of drap? You are living in hell. Brown , starbucks, biegh or cafe mandingo,
it's only coffee folks get a life.

wnats next ? warden says we can have soap if we slip him a few cigs?

Posted by: joe at June 30, 2003 05:44 AM