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The Oakland-based coffee experts found real estate in Williamsburg and put extra care in each cup, perhaps because it takes about five minutes to brew. Coffee snobs can appreciate the $7 Nel Drip, even if novices might gasp at the price. Blue Bottle baristas prepare beans in a giant vintage Probat roaster and use one of the slowest drips around. Snacks from the pastry kitchen include biscotti, olive oil shortbread, ginger molasses cookies, Brooklyn Bootleg s'mores, and gelato. --Jessica Goodman
Much as it has helped transform coffee from brown beverage to eroticized fetish object, Blue Bottle has taken the snickerdoodle, one of the most prosaic members of the American cookie canon, and remade it into an obscure object of desire. It's a feat that's accomplished by swapping the cookie's customary cinnamon with saffron, a substitution that's such a natural fit with its butter and vanilla that you'll wonder why it wasn't there all along. 160 Berry Street, Brooklyn, 718-387-4160,... More »
Blue Bottle Coffee in Brooklyn has terrific drip brews, yes, but it's also a uniquely spartan coffee experience. Since the Bay Area roasters expanded eastward this year, they've commanded the coffee scene in Williamsburg with a loftlike space to match. Leave the agitated busybody attitude to Manhattan; on Berry Street, the line extends to the door as patrons shift their weight patiently, peruse the java cookbooks, and glance bewilderedly at the Grendel-size steel machine in the minimalist... More »
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