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| | | | | | 71 IRVING PLACE COFFEE & TEA BAR 71 Irving Place New York, NY 10003 212-995-5252 If you're like me and had just polished off two massive bottles of Sapporo, had eaten way more than the legal limit of sushi, and found yourself wandering in Gramercy, then you'd have found yourself drinking coffe... Read More | | | | | | Swimster and I live on opposite ends of the city, unfortunate commuting-wise, but fortunate restaurant-exploring-wise. I had to be at work this morning at 11am and we decided to take a little stroll since the unbearable heat of this summer has seemingly fled (knock on wood). We walked to Gramercy P... Read More | | | | | | Cute, country, cozy, and casual. | | | | | | I had heard of this place before but it had never been of any particular interest to me to go entirely out of my way to visit a coffee shop all the way down here until I went on a date here. I was… | | | | | | The last bite of a red velvet cupcake from 71 Irving Place Coffee & Tea Bar, where I went on a blind date. Let's just say it was the last for that, too. The frosting tasted like cheesecake. | | | | | | "Even though I’m half-Austrian, I never really used to like German or Austrian food."Photo: Melissa Hom As Marisha Pessl has it, she got so carried away describing food in her best-selling novel Special Topics in Calamity Physics that certain passages had to be edited down. It’s no surpri... Read More | | | | | | Coffeehouses were once places of camaraderie and social gathering. Lately, however, they’ve become anti-social environments of solitary people steadfastly glued to their laptops. But whether it’s a date with your laptop or a cherished friend, there’s still no better place to hang out, re... Read More | | | | | | On semi-conscious mornings over the past few weeks, as I've waited for the staff at my new-new favorite neighborhood coffee spot, Gimme! Coffee, to brew my Americanos and Red-Eyes, I've been browsing through a copy of a just-published book, Café Life New York, that's always sitting on the count... Read More | | | | | | "WHERE'S MY CLIP MOM!?!?" "Honey, I don't know, look in the bag." "WHERE ARE MY SUNGLASSES MOM!?!?" "Honey, I don't know, look on the sheet." "UGHHHH, forget it." Why did I think my mom would know where I clumsily threw stuff before my mile-lon... Read More | | | |
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