Filter coffee bars in New York
Where New York takes pour-over and batch brew seriously. Single origins, careful extraction, beans that change with the season.
33 cafés · United States
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Black Fox Coffee
Black Fox sets an unusually high bar in the Financial District, sourcing from North America's leading independent…
Devoción
Devoción sources exclusively from Colombia, flying fresh green coffee to its Williamsburg roastery so the beans…
Joe Coffee Roastery Long Island City
Joe Coffee's Long Island City roastery cafe at 40-37 23rd Street is the operational heart of one of New York's most…
Ninth Street Espresso LIC Roastery
The Long Island City roastery and cafe at 43-58 12th Street marks the first time Ninth Street Espresso has operated…
Sey Coffee
Sey is a micro-roastery and cafe at 18 Grattan Street in Bushwick built around obsessive sourcing, paying producers…
Café Integral
Café Integral at 149 Elizabeth Street is one of Manhattan's most focused Central American coffee programs, built…
Hamlet Coffee Company
Tucked into a ground-floor space at 465 Rogers Avenue in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Hamlet serves international…
Passionfruit Coffee
Opened by Pacific Northwest transplants at 733 Madison Street, Passionfruit pairs serious specialty coffee with…
Cafe Grumpy Greenpoint
The flagship location that helped define Brooklyn specialty coffee when it opened on Meserole Avenue in 2005, Cafe…
City of Saints Coffee Roasters
Founded in 2014 by Matt Wade and Joe Palozzi, City of Saints has roasted single-origin coffees at 297 Meserole Street…
Joe Coffee West Village
The original Joe Coffee opened in 2003 on the corner of Waverly Place and Gay Street, and the two iconic benches out…
Loveless Coffees
A Brooklyn roaster with a New York-Nordic identity, Loveless at 86 Central Avenue roasts with pronounced clarity and…
Plowshares Coffee Roasters
Plowshares at 1351 Amsterdam Avenue is a plant-filled, 50-seat roastery-cafe that anchors the Manhattanville Factory…
Villager
Australian-founded and independently owned at 841 Classon Avenue, Villager has been a Crown Heights anchor since late…
La Cabra Roastery
La Cabra's North American headquarters opened at 1329 Willoughby Avenue in 2025, doubling as a working roastery and a…
St. Kilda Coffee
An Australian-founded specialty roaster that opened its Restaurant Row outpost at 374 West 46th Street in 2024, St.…
Three Legged Cat
Opened in June 2024 at 142 Waterbury Street, Three Legged Cat is a gratuity-free multi-roaster cafe in East…
WatchHouse Chrysler Building
The second WatchHouse New York sits inside the Art Deco landmark at 405 Lexington Avenue, with a nine-foot oculus…
WatchHouse Fifth Avenue
London's WatchHouse opened its first U.S. location at 660 Fifth Avenue in May 2024, bringing its Rarities menu of…
Blue Bottle Coffee SoHo
The Walker Hotel location at 396 Broadway is among Blue Bottle's most accessible Manhattan cafes, drawing on the…
Cafe Grumpy Grand Central
Inside Grand Central Terminal at 89 East 42nd Street, Cafe Grumpy brings its house-roasted, direct-trade coffee…
Cafe Grumpy Lower East Side
The Lower East Side Cafe Grumpy at 13 Essex Street brings the brand's direct-trade, house-roasted espresso and…
Coffee Project New York
Coffee Project New York opened at 239 E 5th Street in 2015 and built its reputation on the deconstructed latte, a…
Devoción Flatiron
Devocion's Flatiron location brings the brand's farm-fresh Colombian coffee program to a polished Manhattan setting…
Felix Roasting Co.
Felix Roasting at 450 Park Avenue South occupies a grand two-level space decorated with plants, arched mirrors, and…
Foreigner NYC
Foreigner at 64 W 21st Street is a specialty fine coffee and tea bar with a minimalist interior designed by the East…
Kinship Coffee Cooperative
Kinship Coffee Cooperative in Astoria is a locally rooted operation founded in 2014 by Stanley Rivera and Ashley…
Partners Coffee
Partners Coffee at 125 N 6th Street is the flagship cafe and roastery for the Williamsburg-born brand formerly known…
Plowshares Coffee Roasters
Plowshares' Upper West Side flagship at 2730 Broadway opened in November 2014 as the brand's first retail cafe,…
Stumptown Coffee Roasters
Stumptown's 18 W 29th Street location brought the Portland roaster's cold brew and Hair Bender espresso blend to…
Stumptown Coffee Roasters
The Greenwich Village Stumptown at 30 W 8th Street has operated since 2013 in a historic literary space that retains…
Sweetleaf Coffee Roasters
Sweetleaf opened in Long Island City in 2008 and began roasting its own coffee in 2014, making it one of Queens' most…
Variety Coffee Roasters
Variety opened its Bushwick roastery-cafe at 146 Wyckoff Avenue as the production hub for its now nine-location NYC…
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