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What? It's over $2.00 for a small black coffee. If you think thats cheap you need your head checked!
How much cheaper is a small coffee in 7-11 or DD? A quarter maybe? Even au Bon pan charges $2 now for small. The only place it's much less is off street vendor carts.
Now if anyone wants good quality coffee for a little more than Starbucks, try Roasting Plant on Orchard St or Jacks by the Seaport.
How much cheaper is a small coffee in 7-11 or DD? A quarter maybe? Even au Bon pan charges $2 now for small. The only place it's much less is off street vendor carts.
Now if anyone wants good quality coffee for a little more than Starbucks, try Roasting Plant on Orchard St or Jacks by the Seaport.
I make my coffee at home so I couldn't tell you how much other places charge. Reason I know starbucks is around $2.20 for a small coffee is from when I got a gift card from there and got me a small coffee.
I make my coffee at home so I couldn't tell you how much other places charge. Reason I know starbucks is around $2.20 for a small coffee is from when I got a gift card from there and got me a small coffee.
Oh I know its called a tall there I just refuse to call it that. Even when I go there and order I always ask for a small coffee. That cup is anything but tall.
All of these people suggesting you make coffee at home are annoying. Most people drink coffee at work, doubt OP wants to head home every time he needs coffee.
Most New Yorkers seem to hate Starbucks. I don't hate it, I think it's just ok, but which places do you think a person should go to get great coffee in the city?
You probably are either too young to recall and or have not lived in NYC long.
Before Starbucks arrived there were plenty of small places to get good to excellent coffee. Coffee houses, diners, delis, could be found on every block serving good brew. Then just as Duane Reade killed off small pharmacies Starbucks murdered theirs.
Being a large multinational corporate business SB could and can pay rents that small places couldn't match. They could also afford to sell product at lower rates as well. Starbucks fit right into the 1980's/1990's Yuppie craze; right along with Perrier, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Bass shoes.
Starbucks of that era brought the "latte" to the masses. Hence you have shows like Frazier and Friends literally making a SB type of place their home away from home and ordering weird SB type lattes that would get you laughed out of any coffee place in Europe.
If you went to NYU the Village was full of great coffee places especially on or around Bleecker Street.
Now of course you have one, two or three Starbucks in a two city block radius. Places are trying to compete and some are doing a good job, but many have the expectation of the Starbucks "experience". That is wanting free Wi-Fi and to turn your coffee place into their home office, library or whatever.
Blue Bottle on Berry St. in Brooklyn has a huge wall of interconnected beakers for cold brewing. A coffee-loving friend from California asked especially to see it, so we went. When she saw it, she got all verklempt, like Linda Richman. I thought the coffee tasted pretty good.
From that store's website: "We are roasting coffee on a vintage Probat roaster, and serving coffee on a variety of interesting devices: Oji-style iced coffee drippers, a custom Slayer espresso machine, and perhaps the longest and most theatrical drip bar on the eastern seaboard."
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Now of course you have one, two or three Starbucks in a two city block radius.
There's a funny scene in GhostBusters: customers flee from a Starbucks, escaping into another Starbucks across the street.
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I was in Penn Station last week, and decided I needed a cup of coffee, before the train. After walking up and down the gallery, decided to abandon station and go outside in search of. Greek deli, 7th Av, directly across the street from MSG, got a good small coffee for $1.35. Did the trick. Starbucks, etc. eat your heart out.
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