Cocoa Grinder, a cafe chainlet with multiple locations in Brooklyn, is opening an outpost here on First Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue...
Some background via the Cocoa Grinder website:
Started by Abdul Elenani in his college years during 2013, Cocoa Grinder is more than a coffee shop. It’s an idea that for the hardworking individual of today, convenience is everything: why shouldn’t you have your specialty cup o’joe and healthy meal in the same place? Perfect for the person on the go, or the busy individual seeking to get some work done, Cocoa Grinder offers the perfect environment to enhance your daily grind or take a well-deserving break from it.
Unlike most coffee shops, we roast our own coffee to ensure quality and flavor so that a better brew ends up in your cup. We support local farmers overseas by sourcing the beans directly from their regions. In a small farm in Chiapas, Mexico, we grow some of the best decaf you’ll ever taste. From bean to cup, we make every effort to ensure our coffee exceeds standards.
They feature a menu of all-day breakfast, burgers, protein shakes, and freshly squeezed juices. Prices range from $4 for a to-go egg-and-cheese wrap to $12 for the "Poachy Poach," an ensemble of poached eggs and gravlax salmon on an English muffin with a side of tater tots and greens.
No word on an opening date. Here's a current look inside the space...
This address previously housed the bar-restaurant Joe and Misses Doe at No. 45.
Seem like posers to me -
ReplyDeleteThe website is a bunch of mixed up key word dumps mixed together to sound hip.
"We support local farmers overseas" - uh, locally overseas?
"In a small farm in Chiapas, Mexico, we grow some of the best decaf you’ll ever taste." - Coffee beans naturally have caffeine. They must then be decaffeinated. There are no magic decaf plants growing decaf coffee.
"There are no magic decaf plants growing decaf coffee"
ReplyDeleteThese crops may be by the same farm with the brown cows that make chocolate milk.
Yeah, they are poseurs, I mean posers alright. Typical from gentrified parts of Brooklyn. 12 dollar egg and cheese? GFY
I didnt know you can grow decaf.
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ReplyDeleteThe $12 egg and cheese has salmon, which is the reason for the higher price. It also includes two sides. About the going rate if you would get out more.
So much Coffee. Why am I YAWNNNNNNNNNING when I read this?
ReplyDeleteCan't wait 2 of my favorite things, Cocoa and Grinder.
ReplyDeleteI'm confused. Shouldn't a place called Cocoa Grinders specialize in hot chocolate?
ReplyDeleteHere, I fixed it:
ReplyDeleteEat. Drink. Grind. Drunk.
Sound familiar now?
Man alive ya'll be some bitter mo fo's.
ReplyDeleteYou have to admire the spunk of people willing to start yet another coffee shop with some food in such a glutted market. In spite of comments on social media by the owners, I am finding it difficult to distinguish between the places that now seem to be everywhere in the East Village (no one gave me a heads up on Frisson an espresso coffee shop with about 6 counter seats that opened on Third Avenue between 10th and 11th Streets). I no longer get excited about these openings, because I figure they won't be here in a year. Sorry to be so negative, but coffee shops and noodle shops--enough is enough.
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ReplyDeleteThank you friend, you ain't seen nothing yet, these comments are only the light, satire kind.
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ReplyDeleteTo not be bitter in NYC is to be in mf'n denial. Which is a good qualification to be a six figured salary aide in city hall.
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I get out enough and I have seen the paltry portions of these inflated glorified fast food delicacies.
If they roast their own coffee, as they say, I might give it a shot.
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