Let’s go visiting the best New York City Coffee Roasters.

It’s the crack of dawn, 5am in New York City and I need a coffee.  Most of my days start out this way, a deep heady mix of confusion from the night before, all neurons firing just a light year or two slower than I would like but I do have a cure. Coffee.  Well, caffeine to be precise. 

A major part of the journey coffee takes, from crop to cup has the little green bean pausing within the capable wall of the coffee roasters domain.  These guys and girls, some even called Master’s, are the chemists in the process of curing you with caffeine.  They know how to extract the best from each growing location the beans may come from.  The roasters now how an African bean will want a lighter roast to one from Guatemala, or how best to draw forth the berry complexities of beans from Ethiopia.  These mad hatters live for slurping, tasting, profiling and dabbling in the art of coffee roasting.  So who is the best?  And where can I stumble to now and be fed, intravenous-like if possible please, my elixir of life, coffee, blacker night and hotter than hell.

88 Orchard Street NY. NY. 10002 – Monday to Sunday 8am – 8pm the team behind Irving Farm Coffee Roasters have one of the nicest places to visit in this part of town.  Soft lighting to not strain the temperament of the weary early morning traveler, they’ll hook you up with one of the best handcrafted organic espressos you’ll find  

18 W 29^th Street NY.NY. 10001 – Monday to Friday 6am – 8pm, Weekends 7am – 8pm The Ace Hotel at this location houses the first Stumptown Coffee Roasters.  A beautiful hipster setup sees the team here offering all the varieties of caffeine you could ever need, from heat beating cold brews to long sipping brew by the cup coffee for the winter mornings 

2730 Broadway (btwn 104^th/105^th) NY.NY. 10025 – Plowshares Coffee roast up only the finest small batch single origins to delight your taste buds and tickle your imagination.  With a sustainable, social responsibility deeply rooted in who they are, this cup of joe is crafted for the benefits of many, not just the pleasures of the few.