I met a friend for coffee on Greenwich Street this weekend (and as all of us New Yorkers know, anything on Greenwich Street is positively adorable, anyway), so expectations were high. Stepping into Kaffe 1668 is like being in the Restoration Hardware showroom (ahem, my favorite furniture store, ever.) Ginormous wooden tables and buckets of lavender aside, their coffee is really, really good.
Maybe it’s something with the way they individually brew each cup (but if you’re in a hurry and don’t have the 10+ minutes the coffee can take to make, you can just order their daily drip). Maybe it’s the super low-lighting, and twinkling candle light. Or maybe it’s their delicious honey granola + yogurt. But whatever it is, this Tribeca spot is now a staple on my coffee shop circuit, totally worth the trek below 14th Street (which means a lot coming from a Midtowner). Kudos, Kaffe 1688.
p.s. There’s two locations on Greenwich Street, I went to the one between Beach and Hubert Streets.
Jessica Tiare Bowen lives in the juicy Big Apple with her adorable pink-nosed chihuahua, Gillman. He’s the inspiration for her first published children’s book, “Park Avenue Pound Puppy.” The book is the combined result of her two greatest passions: pooches and penning stories.
Her passions include art, urban hikes through Manhattan, drinking coffee with 3 creams and 6 sugars, making extremely detailed itineraries and traveling to far away places, singing along to Broadway shows, Netflix movie nights, discovering incredible treasures at Goodwill and thrift stores, and listening to stories from little people under 7 and big people over 70.
She started her career as New York City Teaching Fellow, teaching elementary school and theater arts at a special education school in the South Bronx for 6 years. She is now a Special Education School Improvement Specialist working in public schools throughout New York City. She is the Editor-In-Chief of the online New York City travel magazine, Used York City. The magazine focuses on finding the best of New York…as used by New Yorkers. She is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, and an ASPCA Ambassador.
