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    Black Star Bakery & Cafe

    4.6 (65 reviews)
    Open 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

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    Outdoor seating
    Dogs allowed

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    Maria M.

    Everything I have eaten in this cute little place has been very good. The coffee is great. I was a little disappointed with the waffle the other day. Just please be careful to offer to warm up the waffle or do not serve ones which are not too fresh. Service is very good too!

    Misti M.

    Cute little cafe on 24th - very close to the Freehand hotel, where I was staying. I popped down there in the morning to grab a breakfast sandwich and some treats for us for later in the day. The siracha egg sandwich was tasty, but next time I would definitely ask for it on a bagel. The bun was light and fluffy but didn't offer a lot of flavor. The tea selection was good, there were three donuts to choose from (I went with the confetti!), and there were a variety of other pastries. My friend really liked the lemon poppyseed muffin and my donut was very good. The seating inside is limited to about 4-6 people, but there were a few outdoor options. Not the most picturesque street (lots of scaffolding on surrounding buildings right now) - but I'm sure w/o that it would be a lovely little place to spend the morning.

    Jenny N.

    Excellent Chai tea latte! Great place to casually catch up with friends outside or inside. They have seating inside and outside. Staff have always been friendly! I've tried a variety of their pastries! They have savory and sweet. I'm more of a sweet than savory person. Here's what I recommend ordering that you won't regret. - The pistachio Muffin, if you love pistachio. This is for you! The muffin is moist but strong in pistachio flavors! - Almond croissant, The cake donuts are cute, but inconsistent from dry to moist.

    Outdoor seating
    Charlotte M.

    Coffee & pastries? Yes, please. This little gem has such delicious pastries and desserts, and a great selection of coffee options. The cinnamon churro scone was so good. And nothing like an iced almond milk latte to refresh & energize. My friend had the salted caramel iced latte and said it was delicious. I can't wait to go back and try their sriracha egg & cheese . sandwich. I firmly believe sriracha makes everything taste better so I must go back and confirm this. Also, to try more pastries...or doughnuts, or the muffins, or the cake pops, or the cookies...or the apple brie croissant! They have all the non-dairy milk options. Plus - almond and oat creamer as well as honey, sugars, and simple syrup etc. if you like to fix your coffee to your liking. I found my almond milk latte the perfect sweetness & didn't sneed anything added to it. I also like that it has both a small inside and outside seating area. The outside was cute with flowers in planters.

    Breakfast Burrito
    Sonja K.

    Cute little cafe! Tons of food options, I got the breakfast burrito which was really delicious. Coffee is great as well. The cafe is quite small with minimal seating though I was still able to enjoy my food there. They have a good pastry selection as well. I will surely be back soon!

    16 oz. Iced Chai Latte
    Daphne C.

    One of my favorite places to get an iced chai latte! They also have delicious croissants. Very quick and friendly service. It's a pretty small cafe so getting a seat is not always promised.

    Breakfast Burrito
    Elaine M.

    I love Black Star cafe and whenever I'm in the gramercy area I make sure to stop by, not for their coffee (which is great) but for their food. Their breakfast burrito is simple but delicious, but I think my favorite thing to grab their is their turkey and Swiss croissant. While it's a cafe with little to no seating, the food is super good and they have a wide assortment of sweet and savory pastries for you to nibble on. I absolutely recommend this place!

    16 oz. Iced Mocha
    Danyel M.

    I really enjoyed this iced mocha! Very good amount of sweet to bitter. I probably would not study here since the inside is very small with limited seats, but I do want to come back to try the pastries!

    Breakfast burrito with lox
    Morlene C.

    I really need to cast aside preconceived notions I have about multi-loc eateries being soulless, flavorless places because Black Star Bakery is anything but. They seem to be thriving despite opening this Gramercy location in the midst of a pandemic, and it's no surprise their array of pastries, delicious breakfast sandwiches, and Oslo coffee brings customers back to their airy, plant-filled space. People need their coffee in a cute environment after all, pandemic be damned. They're carefully following CDC guidelines by enforcing mask usage among staff and patrons, limiting occupancy inside at any given time, installing a hand sanitizer station, and having contactless payment available. They have a couple of tables outside under a huge patio umbrella so you can stay dry and shaded while satisfying your caffeine fix. Under this umbrella I enjoyed an admittedly overly sweet iced chai latte, which I viewed more as a dessert than a vehicle for caffeine. I was so pleasantly surprised by my breakfast burrito, which had the perfect ratio of cheese, eggs, avocado, sprouts, and sriracha mayo. $9.99 felt appropriately priced for the area, and adding lox to the burrito was only $3.50 extra-- that's less than even a bagel shop would charge, and the bagel shop wouldn't even be cute inside. The burrito itself is pretty sizeable and left me feeling pretty sated for the rest of the day. Separately I've tried the Avocado Trip, which is an avocado, egg and cheese breakfast sandwich that comes on a nice pillowy croissant--my preferred breakfast sandwich bread. There's been so much turnover for businesses at this location over the years, but I have a feeling the foot traffic this cafe has been bringing to this block will break the curse. Long live Gramercy's Black Star Bakery!

    Kristelle S.

    Really good & satisfying breakfast burrito. Coffee is okay nothing to be crazy about. The staff is friendly. The place is also cute.

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    Brianne B.

    This place may not seem like THE coffee shop but IT IS. I have been frequenting this location since I came to NYC and it has been unmatched so far! The croissants, the coffee, the service, everything is as I could dream. Churro croissant is a MUSTT. I would sprint in front of all the crazy taxi cabs to get it.

    Egg cheese and avocado on a croissant and matcha with almond milk

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    Amazing place with great food, fantastic coffee/drinks and a super friendly staff and awesome space too. Love it!!!

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    4.5
    (120 reviews)
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    ordered the hinata matcha latte and it was great!! it's so nutty and i loved it…read more it was a quaint tiny store and they sold japanese tea leaves. so glad my friend and i snagged the one table that they had indoors :)

    Small hidden shop in Koreatown specializing in matcha and tea-based drinks!…read more I came to Mika's on a Friday morning, and while there wasn't a line, it did feel packed with the five people inside. I'd actually passed by this place multiple times but had no idea it was a cafe. This shop itself is more of a grab-and-go, but it might still take a while since all drinks are whisked and made to order. There isn't really space for a line to form inside, so you may need to wait outside to order (there's also a bit of a lack of room to wait for your drink once it's ordered). My strawberry matcha came out to $9.25 total, which is pretty pricey, so I expected a lot. In total, it took me around 10-ish minutes to get my drink with about 4 people in front of me. At first it took a while for our orders to get taken since the two employees were focused on getting drinks out ASAP, one person was preparing the syrups and milk, and the other was making the matcha. The matcha itself had a nice green color. I've had many strawberry matchas prior to this, and based on my experience, this place was alright. The strawberry syrup was nice and not too sweet, but I wish there was a bit more flavoring or more of it, as after two sips I couldn't taste the strawberry at all. Overall, it's a nice shop with cute trinkets around and their own products they sell, like matchas and tea sets. However, for $9, it was a lot for what the drink offered in my opinion.

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    Prince Tea House

    4.2
    (229 reviews)
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    I am a frequent Prince Tea House goer, but I've never been to the KTown location which has always…read morebeen on my bucket list because of the nice wall decors! And I commonly see the upstairs for private events like baby showers, bridal showers, or birthday parties on social media. After dinner with my friends, I was looking for dessert and I was glad to see this location closes relatively late on a weekday night at 11 pm. Upon walking in, I was greeted by a waiter who led us to one of the purple velvet chair booths that was perfect for two people and another waiter brought us a pitcher of water almost immediately. The menu is on a QR code already on the table and we were given ample of time to decide. My friend and I both already knew what we wanted to order. I got the purple Yam Souffle which takes 25 minutes to make and my friend got the fried squid tails. We also got a signature Rose Green Milk Tea to share. The waitress who took our order has great memory and recalled all of our items without writing it down. She also reminded me that I could adjust the ice and sugar levels of my drink which I had completely forgotten and would have got annoyed if my drink came out 100% sweetness. Another thing is that my drink order frequently comes out wrong at other locations so I was glad she got it right! Green tea instead of black tea and with milk instead of without milk. The purple Yam Souffle is just like the other locations. Hot, soft cakey texture balanced with an ice cold red bean Ice-Cream. So delicious! The squid tails on the other hand was not what we expected. It came out burnt and hard. The outer batter was not crispy either. We informed one of the waiters and he brought it back to inform the kitchen staff. We received a new batch that was not as burnt and had more flavoring this time around. However, the squid was still hard and not like the ones we get from other locations with smaller crispier pieces. Overall, it was still a good experience and I love the decorations at this location! This might be my second favorite location after the Flushing one. Would love to come back for brunch or hi-tea. Or regular food options when I have not already eaten dinner. My usual go-tos are the twister fries, Santa Fe chicken rolls, fried salted crispy chicken, and the trio dessert combo. However, this location has a lot more variety! FYI - there are two unisex restrooms in the rear for customers to use with really cute wallpapers too.

    This is always my favorite spot to go for desserts and hangout. The interior decor is very modern,…read moresophisticated and stylish. We ordered potted rose milk tea to share, Dubai affogato and Brown Sugar Boba Mille Crêpes Cake. We came on a Friday around 4pm. Originally I wanted to try the strawberry matchamisu, however, was told that it sold out. What a bummer. The rose milk tea came with a themed pot and cups which is really cute. The rose fragrant smelled so good and the milk tea also tasted good and has a hint of rose taste. The cake was good, the boba was well cooked, chewy and flavorful! This time there was an unpleasant experience. At first when the Dubai affogato was served, we did not realize that the amount of the coffee was little until we saw another customer's dish that the volume of their coffee looked significantly more than ours. My friend brought it to the waitress attention but the waitress brushed it off and did not acknowledge our concern. When we finished and were about to leave, the same waitress came over and showed us that the container of the coffee was different and hence the volume of the coffee looked different. At this point, we did not care for it anymore. We would have been fine if the staff acknowledged our concern. We thought that maybe using standardized containers for the coffee would avoid this problem. Other than that, the food and drinks were good.

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