The Best Coffee Shops in Queens, by the Record
The best coffee shops in Queens, by the professional record: Sprudge, Eater, and Time Out have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Melting Cups comes out on top.
Cholita and Mokafe' hold the next two places. Eater shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with Sprudge next.
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Rank 1. Melting Cups
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The back lounge is velvet, laptop-free, and clearly the whole point. Melting Cups is a Black-owned coffee shop a short walk from Queens Boulevard in Sunnyside, pouring Sey Coffee with pastries by day and pivoting to wine and beer come evening. A few tables out front catch the street; the cozy back room is for books, crosswords, or actual conversation, which is a quietly radical offer in 2024.
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