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Over the last two years so many great coffee shops have opened in New
York, it’s hard to choose between them. For coffee snobs and serious
baristas, Eater.com has compiled some of the hottest spots explaining
“a truly great cafe experience is also about the vibe, location, and
personalities of the people that work there.” These aren’t your
ordinary cups of joe and even midtown has caught up with the downtown
coffee scene: “Culture Espresso Bar is perhaps the best non-chain
coffee shop in midtown. They almost always use espresso from Chicago’s
Intelligentsia, but they also mix it up by brewing beans.”
Where the best places to drink coffee in New York are right now