The Top 25 Coffee Shops in Manhattan
The best coffee shops in Manhattan, by the professional record: Sprudgie Awards, US Coffee Championships, and Time Out have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Arcane Estate Coffee comes out on top.
Coffee Project New York and Abraço hold the next two places. Time Out shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with The Infatuation next.
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Rank 1. Arcane Estate Coffee
Panamanian Coffee
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- US Coffee Championships #1 · U.S. Latte Art Championship · Piyapat "Flook" Lapteerawut
- US Coffee Championships #7 · U.S. Coffee in Good Spirits Championship · John Chau Ly
- US Coffee Championships #7 · U.S. Brewers Cup · Peace Sakulclanuwat
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Rank 3. Abraço
Coffee
The cured olive cookie has been living rent-free in regulars' heads for years, which tells you something about this East Village espresso bar. Abraço roasts its own, keeps laptops out, and occasionally pivots to cocktails for evening music events, which is either a flex or just very New York. The room fills fast on weekends, the bites are small and creative, and the whole operation runs with a neighborhood-institution energy that's genuinely hard to fake.
- Time Out #3 · The 21 very best coffee shops in NYC
- Eater The Best Coffee Shops in New York City
- The Infatuation The Best Coffee Shops In NYC
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Rank 3. La Cabra
Danish Coffee
A U-shaped bar anchors this Danish coffee shop, where streamlined taps for cold drinks share space with a proper V60 setup and a counter lined with pastries worth stopping for. La Cabra built a following in Copenhagen before planting roots on the Lower East Side, and the East Village original still draws a crowd that treats croissants and a carefully pulled espresso as a reasonable reason to leave the house.
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Rank 5. Hi-Collar
Japanese
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- Time Out #12 · The 21 very best coffee shops in NYC
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Rank 6. Grace Street
Korean Coffee Shop
- Time Out #16 · The 21 very best coffee shops in NYC
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The picture window looks out on a community garden at 9th and Avenue C, and that's about as decorative as this coffee shop gets. Ninth Street Espresso has been a purist espresso spot in Alphabet City since what feels like the dawn of specialty coffee, roasting its own beans out in Long Island City and keeping the menu ruthlessly short. A cookie, a vegan mini-loaf, a bench out front if the weather allows.
- Time Out #15 · The 21 very best coffee shops in NYC
- Sprudge The Sprudge Guide To Coffee In Lower Manhattan
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Concrete floors, black accent walls, and two arc-shaped bars make this FiDi coffee shop feel like it wandered in from Brooklyn and decided to stay. A multi-roaster menu pulls from a rotating cast of serious names, and the espresso machine moonlights for by-the-cup drip. There's a small food menu, housemade pastries, and, naturally, wine. Laptop seating is deliberately scarce, which says everything about what the room is for.
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Rank 12. Bluestone Lane
Australian Coffee
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Rank 12. Lê Phin
Vietnamese Coffee
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Rank 12. maman
French
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Rank 21. Buunni Coffee
Ethiopian Coffee
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Rank 25. Joe Coffee Company
Coffee
Two benches out front are famous enough to appear in the logo, which tells you something about how long this West Village coffee shop has been part of the neighborhood. Joe Coffee Company roasts its own beans in Long Island City and piles the pastry case high with muffins and quickbreads. It has the warm, unhurried feel of a place where regulars know the staff by name, which in New York passes for a small miracle.