Mod Cup Coffee To Open Its First Hoboken Storefront Next To Church Square Park

HOBOKEN, NJ — The beans have been spilled.

A popular coffee shop that started with a cart on the Hoboken waterfront 10 years ago — then opened its first location across from Riverview-Fisk Park in Jersey City Heights in 2014 — is gearing up for its first Hoboken storefront.

Mod Cup Coffee's "Caffeine and Dreams" sign appeared in the past few days at the former location of Hoboken Dog Wash on Fourth Street, just south of Church Square Park.

Travas Clifton, the co-founder of the group of shops, said Monday that they don't have a definite timeline to open, but they are hoping for August.

The company has grown. Besides Jersey City Heights, it has a location at Exchange Place, and a store and roastery at 25 Senate Place in Journal Square.

"We are thrilled to be returning to the town where all of this started," Clifton said. "Hoboken is a town with a significant part in the story of coffee on the East Coast, and also our own humble beginnings when we roasted in a garage in the Heights and dragged a cart to Sinatra drive every morning ... As a result Hoboken has a very special place in our heart."

The block is already home to a hip new Asian fusion restaurant called Number Eleven Food Store, and Hoboken Burrito.

Mod Cup is named after the modernists, or "mods," the British post-World War II youth whom— they note — had "a love of all things Italian and American. Vespa Scooters, pencil thin suits and frequenting coffee shops to listen to rare imported American Jazz and Soul records was their mantra. The past was dull and grey, their future bright caffeinated and soulful."

The shop will be part of a slew of new coffee spots opening in Hoboken and in Jersey City. Get the scoop here.

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