UWS Coffee Shop Named One Of USA's Best: Food And Wine Magazine

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — New York City's love of coffee is well-documented, but with national chains, trendy cafes and trusty bodegas serving up fine joe on every block it's tough to find the city's best cup. It turns out that a miniscule spot on the Upper West Side is one of the best coffee sellers in the entire nation, according to an exhaustive two year study carried out by Food & Wine magazine.

Box Kite Coffee, on West 72nd Street between Amsterdam and Columbus avenues, didn't make Food and Wine's top 10 list, but it was named one of the "best of the rest." The hole-in-the-wall spot serves up a curated seasonal menu of coffees brewed by only top-quality roasters, according to its website.

"The last thing you’re expecting to find on West 72nd Street (mid block, yet) is one of Manhattan’s most studiously committed multi-roaster cafes, but that’s half the fun. One of the best places in the city to sample Sey Coffee, without the trip to Bushwick," the magazine's review reads.

The Bushwick roaster Sey Coffee was crowned by Food and Wine as thebest coffee spot in the country. One other New York City coffee house, Greenwich Village's Caffe Reggio, was also named "best of the rest."

Here's what the magazine had to say abot the two spots:

Sey Coffee, 18 Grattan St.

"Everything is tightly focused, orderly — there are never too many carefully sourced coffees to choose from, the menu is simple, service is quietly kind, efficient, workers make a living wage, tipping is frowned upon," they write.

"How exhilarating to sit here in anonymity, on the last seat in a packed house, watching the whole thing go, wondering how many people know they're in the presence of true greatness."

Caffe Reggio, 119 Macdougal St.

"Domenico Parisi sank his life savings into America's first espresso machine, a shiny, expensive beast of a thing imported from Italy, back in the 1920s, and you can see it, any time you like, sitting in the back of this moody, art-filled Greenwich Village cafe, where the country was first introduced to the cappuccino."

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