Best Coffee Shop In USA Is In NYC: Food And Wine Magazine

NEW YORK – The best coffee shop in the U.S. is serving cups of Joe right here in New York City, according to an exhaustive two year study carried out by Food & Wine magazine.

Sey Coffee has been roasting its beans on Grattan Street, on the border of Bushwick and Williamsburg, for more than 10 years – and what its owners have created blew away the magazine's reviewer.

"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."

Sey is the only NYC coffee shop to make the magazine's top 10, but another two were named as "the best of the rest." They are:

Box Kite Coffee, 128 W. 72nd St.

What the review said:"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."

Caffe Reggio, 119 Macdougal St.

What the review said: "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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