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Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a coffee lover and you're looking for a place to shop, then you'll need to try out a coffee shop. They offer a wide selection of whole beans from all over the world. These stores also sell unique trinkets, kitchenware, and other products.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions to their coffee beans. Some shops sell these in bulk.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee seller specializing in international brews as well as a range of loose teas

The aroma of freshly roasting beans fills the air as you enter this West Village shop. The shelves are packed with jars, sacks and dark brown beans, with tea-making equipment, coffee accessories and sugar.

Originally opened in 1907, Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrant Patsy Albanese. At the time, Greenwich Village was seeing an influx of Italian immigrants who had opened businesses to meet their culinary requirements. Albanese named her shop after the famous Puerto Rican coffee she imported (and sold) the beverage was that was so popular at the time that even the Pope was a fan.

Porto Rico offers 130 different varieties of beans, including those from around the world, at three locations, including Bleecker Street, Essex Market and online. Porto Rico roasts their own beans and provides wholesale distribution for 350 restaurants in NYC, Brooklyn and Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, current owner and president, grew up in the family bakery located on Bleecker Street, where his father was the owner of Porto Rico. He still runs the shop in the same way as his father and grandfather.

Sey Coffee

The shop is located along Grattan Street in Morgantown, Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood, Sey Coffee is both a coffee shop and roaster. Tobin Polk, Lance Schnorenberg and their 33-year-old co-founders started roasting coffee in an apartment on the fourth floor, just around the corner in the year 2011. They named it Lofted Coffee. Local clients included Greenpoint's Budin and Soho cart services Peddler and Peddler.

Sey's decision to buy micro-lots, and even whole harvests, from farmers who are one has earned it the respect of New York City coffee enthusiasts. In 2011, Sey purchased a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai from Brazil's Espirito-Santo region. The beans were harvested at their peak ripeness and floated to remove any imperfections. They were then dried on the farm after a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a coffee with hints of berry, melon and lemongrass.

Sey's mission extends beyond the shop to improve the overall health of staff and farmers, and customers. It makes use of composts and biodegradable products to keep waste out of the garbage dumps. This helps reduce greenhouse gases and nourish the soil. It also does away with gratuity, which puts baristas into a position to provide their livelihoods and inspire them to concentrate on their craft.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee company founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. The company began with a small shop and a committed team. Their open and creative approach to delivering a truly exceptional coffee experience has earned them a following that was not only in their hometown but also around the world.

La Carba has a rigorous method of identifying their ideal beans, searching through hundreds of different varieties a year to find the ones that fit their ideals. They roast them lightly, dialing in their desired flavor profile. This gives the coffees a more intense flavor and clarity.

The East Village store opened last October with a sleek minimalist design. It's been praised by global coffee lovers for its precise pour overs and baked goods overseen by head baker Jared Sexton, who's previously worked at Bien Cuit and Dominique Ansel.

The shop employs a La Marzocco modbar, and the cups and plates are custom-designed at Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, which is a father-son studio. In a recent interview with Atlanta Coffee Shops, General Manager Ian Walla reveals that La Cabra serves around 250 different coffees per year, and typically has seven or eight varieties available at any given time.

The Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is a multi-unit retailer of coffee roasts and brews its coffee on the spot. Each cup is brewed and roasted according to your preferences in less than one second. It scour the globe for the finest specialty beans that are sourced directly providing customers with the option of choice and quality.

The roaster on site uses fluid bed technology, which is quite different from the drum-type machines commonly found in most UK coffee shops. The beans are blown around an enclosed box heated by high-speed air which keeps the beans in a suspended state and allows roasting to happen at a consistent rate as they move through the machine.


I tried the Sumatran Coffee and it was rich and velvety with a rich and velvety taste. Dark chocolate was evident in the aroma. And as coffee beans in bulk sipped the coffee you could detect subtle citrus fruit flavors.

The coffee is then be taken to the Eversys Super-Automatic Brewing Machines, and brewed to your preferences within less than a minute. Customers can select from nine single origins and different blends.

Parlor Coffee

It was founded in 2012 in the back of a barbershop with an espresso machine that was single-group, Parlor Coffee has become a rapidly growing roastery whose beans can be found in top restaurants, cafes and home brewers across the city. Parlor Coffee is committed to finding the highest-quality beans, that have all been through a long journey before reaching its roasters.

According to their own words the owners "have an unrelenting passion for craft and a belief that great coffee should be available to anyone." They achieve this by putting their home-like area on a residential street. Think compost bins, chalkboard welcome hand-made up-cycled goods, and low-frills deco.

They roast their own blends (there were six at the time I was there) and single-origins, but they also have cuppings on Sundays, which are accessible to the public. Imagine it as a brewery tasting room, where you can smell and taste the beans in the ground. They vary from earthy to chocolaty (one was almost like tomato!). They're a bit off the beaten track however, they're it's worth the trip.

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