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Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you are a coffee lover, you should consider visiting a coffee shop. These shops sell a range of whole beans from all over the world. These stores also offer unique trinkets, kitchenware, and other items.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions for their coffee beans. www.coffeee.uk sell them in bulk.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee shop that specializes in international brews and a selection of loose teas

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

Porto Rico, originally opened in 1907 by Italian immigrant Patsy Albonese. Greenwich Village at the time was experiencing an influx of Italian immigrants, who established businesses to cater to their dietary needs. Albanese named her shop after the renowned Puerto Rican coffee she imported (and sold) the beverage was so popular that even the Pope consumed it.

Today, Porto Rico sells 130 varieties of beans from around the world at three locations in New York City including their Bleecker Street location, Essex Market and online. Porto Rico 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 business was raised over the bakery of his family on Bleecker Street where his father operated Porto Rico. He continues to run the shop in the same manner as his grandfather and father.

Sey Coffee

The shop is located along Grattan Street in Morgantown, Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood, Sey Coffee is both a roaster and coffee shop. 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 2011. They called it Lofted Coffee. Local clients included Greenpoint's Budin, and Soho cart services Peddler and Peddler.

Sey's focus on purchasing micro-lots, or even whole harvests from single farmers has earned it the respect of highly discerning New York City coffee aficionados. In the past, they made a six-bag micro-lot purchase of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai 785 from Brazil's Espirito Santo region. The beans were picked at their peak ripeness and then steamed to eliminate any imperfections. They were then dried on the farm following a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a coffee with hints of berry lemongrass, and melon.

Sey's commitment goes beyond its shop to improve the overall wellbeing of employees and growers as well as customers. It uses composts and biodegradable plastics to keep waste out of the landfills. This helps reduce greenhouse gases and nourish the soil. It also eliminates gratuity. This lets baristas focus on their craft and earn a living.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee company that was founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. They began with a small shop and a dedicated team. Their honesty and ingenuity to delivering a truly exceptional coffee experience earned them a following, not just in their home town but also around the world.

La Carba follows a strict method to select their best beans. They search through hundreds of beans each year to select the beans that best meet their standards. They roast them lightly, adjusting their desired flavor profile. This results in clearer and more vibrant taste.

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

The shop utilizes a La Marzocco modbar and the plates and cups are designed by Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, an artist-run by a father and son. In a recent interview Atlanta Coffee Shops General Manager Ian Walla revealed that La Cabra serves 250 different types of coffee per day, and has usually seven or eight varieties available at any time.

The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant Coffee

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

Their on-site roaster is a fluid bed machine, that is distinct from the traditional drum machines commonly found in UK coffee shops. The beans are blown into an enclosed box that is heated and has high-speed, circulating air. This keeps the beans in suspension and allows for a consistent roasting speed.

I tried the Sumatran Coffee and it was incredibly rich and velvety with a smooth taste. Dark chocolate was evident in the aroma. As you sipped the coffee you could taste subtle citrus fruit aromas.

The coffee that has been roasted will be poured into the Eversys Super-Automatic Brewing Machines and brewed according to your specifications in under a minute. Customers can pick from nine single origins and different blends.

Parlor Coffee

It was founded in 2012 in the back of a barbershop that had an espresso machine with a single group, Parlor Coffee has become a growing roastery, whose beans are found at great restaurants, cafes and home brewers throughout the city. Parlor is dedicated to sourcing top-quality beans from all over the world, each of which is a long, arduous journey before arriving in the roasters.

The owners, who are self-described as "passionate about the craft and believe that good coffee should be accessible to everyone," have created a place that is a bit more grounded with chalkboards, compost bins, up-cycled hand-made products, and minimal decor.

They roast and create their own blends and single-origins (there were six at the time I was there) They also offer cuppings on Sundays, which are open to the public. Imagine it as a tasting area where you can smell and taste the beans as they are roasted. They range from earthy to chocolatey (one was similar to tomato!). It's a little off the beaten path, but worth the journey.

Here's my website: https://www.coffeee.uk/categories/coffee-beans