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If you are a coffee lover, you should go to a coffee shop. the coffee bean shop provide a large variety of beans that are whole from all across the globe. They also sell exclusive trinkets, kitchenware and other items.
Some of these shops offer subscriptions to their coffee beans. Others offer them in bulk at their retail stores.
Porto Rico Importing Co.
Veteran coffee seller who specializes in international brews, loose teas and a variety.
When you walk into this old-school West Village shop, the smell of fresh roasting beans fills your nostrils. The sacks of dark brown beans are displayed on the shelves alongside jars of sugar coffee-making equipment, tea and other accessories.
Porto Rico, originally opened in 1907 by Italian immigrant Patsy Albonese. Greenwich Village at the time was witnessing a surge of Italian immigrants, who opened businesses in order to meet their dietary needs. Albanese named the shop after the famous Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a drink that was so popular that at the time, even the Pope would drink it.
Porto Rico offers 130 different kinds of beans, including those from around the world in three locations, including Bleecker Street, Essex Market and online. The company also roasts their own beans and provides wholesale distribution to 350 restaurants in NYC, Brooklyn and Brooklyn.
Peter Longo, the current president and owner of the company was raised above the bakery of his family located on Bleecker Street where his father was the owner of Porto Rico. He still runs the shop in the same fashion as his father did and grandfather.
Sey Coffee
It is located on Grattan Street in Morgantown, Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood, Sey Coffee is both a cafe and a roaster. Co-founders Tobin Polk and Lance Schnorenberg, both 33 started roasting in a fourth-floor loft located across the street from their new location in 2011 under the name Lofted Coffee (with local clients including Greenpoint's Budin and Soho cart service Peddler).
Sey's preference for micro-lots or even whole harvests from a single farmer has earned it the acclaim of the most discerning New York City coffee aficionados. Last year they made a 6-bag micro-lot purchase of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai 785 from Brazil's Espirito Santo region. The beans were hand-picked at the peak of ripeness, then floated to eliminate any defects and dried fermented for a period of 36 hours before being dried on the farm. The result is a cup with hints of berry, melon and lemongrass.
Sey's focus on holistically improving the well-being of staff, growers and customers extends beyond the shop. It utilizes biodegradable disposables as well as composts to keep waste out of the landfill and converting it into substances that reduce harmful greenhouse gases and nourish soil. It also eliminates gratuity, which places baristas in the position to support their livelihoods and inspire them to concentrate on their art.
La Cabra
La Cabra, a modern specialty-coffee company, was founded in Aarhus in Denmark in 2012. It started with a small shop and a dedicated staff. Their honest and innovative approach to delivering an extraordinary coffee experience earned them a following that was not only in their own town however, but across the globe.
La Carba has a rigorous process for finding their perfect beans, going through hundreds of different varieties every year to find ones that fit their ideals. They roast them lightly, dialing in their desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees more vibrant taste and clarity.
The East Village store, which opened in October last year was praised for its premium pour-overs and baked goods, which are overseen by Jared Sexton. He previously worked at Bien Cuit, Dominique Ansel, and other coffee establishments.
The shop uses the La Marzocco Modbar and the cups, plates, and bowls are custom-designed by Wurtz ceramics, a father-and-son studio in Horsens. In a recent Q&A with Atlanta Coffee Shops, General Manager Ian Walla reveals that La Cabra serves approximately 250 different coffees a year, and typically has seven or eight varieties on offer at any given point.
The Roasting Plant Coffee
The Roasting Plant is a multi-unit coffee retailer, roasts and brews coffee on site. Each cup is brewed and roasted according to your requirements in less than an hour. It scour countries far and far for the finest quality specialty beans, which are directly sourced that offer customers a variety and quality.
Their onsite roaster is a fluid bed device, which is different from traditional drum machines commonly found in UK coffee shops. The beans are blown around in a heated container by high-speed air that keeps the beans in a suspended state and allows them to be roasted in a steady manner when they pass through the machine.
I tried the Sumatran Coffee and it was velvety and rich with a velvety taste. Dark chocolate was evident from the aroma. And as you sipped the coffee, you could smell subtle citrus fruit flavours.
The roasted coffee is then whisked to the store's Eversys super-automatic brewing systems and it is brewed to your requirements in less than a minute. Customers can select from nine single origins as well as a variety blends.
Parlor Coffee
Parlor Coffee was founded in 2012 behind a barbershop, using a single espresso machine. It has since morphed into a bustling coffee roastery, whose coffee beans are sold in top cafes, restaurants, and home brewers all over the city. Parlor is committed to procuring high-quality coffee beans from all over the world, each of which has had to endure a lengthy journey before arriving in the hands of its roasters.
In their own words according to their own words, they "have an unrelenting love of craft and a conviction that good coffee should be accessible to everyone." They accomplish this with their earthy streetscape that is a mix of residential and commercial. Think compost bins, chalkboards handmade up-cycled items, and a simple deco.
They roast their own blends (there were six at the time I was there) and single-origins, but they also hold cuppings on Sundays, which are open to the general public. Think of it like a tasting room for breweries. You can smell and taste the beans, from chocolatey to earthy (one was almost tomato-like!). They're a bit off the beaten path however, they're is worth a visit.