Awesome, huge place to work or come w a group. Good coffee too! Sometimes a line for food
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Nutella Fitzgerald
Major
I come here almost every time I’m scheduled for work, but I can’t make a quick trip to use the rest room. I won’t be coming back.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 1
Marina
The latte here is excellent, perhaps not often seen in New York. It was not sour, as is the case in many coffee shops. If I lived nearby, this is the only place I would come for coffee! ☕
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Nick Felker
This is a small coffee shop near Astor Place where I got a latte and a brownie. It was fine overall.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 4
Jackie McK
Nice atmosphere just the chairs are uncomfy and it seems all the tables are wobbly. It’s really nice how laptop friendly the cafe is and is very nice to study in, just the coffee is not very good. Tasted like warm milk and a hint of instant coffee and very expensive for the quality of what you get. The pastries looked promising but did not try any this time. Lots of gluten free cookies though!
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 3
Isabell Killer
Please... Take responsibility and Reduce plastic waste ... If people stay inside no trash covers should be offered!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
ohboy
One of my most visited places because of location, great for studying and college students. Rewards program and very kind staff who helped when I spilled my drink over.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Erin Winward
Spacious NYC coffee shop with super duper cool artwork, drawings and decor all around you! Makes the experience more fun and interesting. Layout of shop is nice with plenty of seating areas. One of my favorite coffee spots to go to while in New York, East Village. Coffee is delish here and the fresh warm pastries! Menu is interesting as well with many options, great creative scene!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 3
Damien Malatino
Great selection of coffee, smoothies and snacks. Very creative drinks like the nutella latte that you can’t find everywhere and tastes so good. The place can get busy but there are plenty of seats to hang out and get some work done on your laptop (with wifi and a printer!).
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Justin Rogers-Cooper
A surprisingly relaxed spot for conversation and latte, in the space of the old St. Mark’s Bookshop (1977-2016). Plenty of student types and co-working, big bright space, big selection of coffee. I want to try the açaí bowl things, they look competitive with Playa Bowls. Solid stop when you’re cutting through the neighborhood.
My girlfriend and I went to this coffee shop for breakfast on Monday morning and left disgusted & embarrassed.
Our experience was so terrible that I had to take the time to write this review.
From the moment we entered; we were greeted by an unpleasant odor. It smelled as if they have been using an old dirty mop to clean the floors. That greeting was quickly followed up by a woman who scolded a patron for putting 2 tables together. We were limited on time so we decided to disregard it, grab a quick bite and get on with our day.
The man who took our order wasn’t the most pleasant but He isn’t what motivated me to write this review.
My girlfriend and I were picking up our order and my girlfriend was trying to get the attention of the workers because we needed a stirrer for our coffee. After saying “excuse me” 3 times and being ignored, my girlfriend decided to reach over the counter to grab 1 herself. The woman who worked behind the counter had the audacity to scream at the top of her lungs, from across the room, grabbing everyone’s attention inside the shop. She continued to berate my girlfriend even after she apologized for reaching over. The fact that someone believes they are in a position to talk to people the way she does is atrocious. Mind you, we are NOT children. We are 40 year old woman! I don't care how bad of a day You’re having, NOBODY has the right to do this. ESPECIALLY in the service industry.
I have worked in customer service for over 25 years and As a business owner myself, I was shocked & appalled by that workers behavior. How someone like that can continue to work in an establishment that is based solely on customer service is just bad for business! If the owner is smart, he will reconsider the people he chooses to employ.
One thing’s for sure…. We will never step foot in this place again!
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
angela coleman
Please consider putting more care into the way you craft a hot chocolate. Very disappointed.
tiff
Has really gone downhill. They only had ONE GUY working on a busy Monday morning. Why would management do that to him and to their own business? He gave fine service but was obviously overwhelmed. I ordered at 10:53AM and didn't actually get my food or receipt until 11:15AM, so I obviously missed the 15-minute window for the wifi. It's too much of a hassle to keep coming here.
JoliAmour DuBose-Morris
Hi! I've been coming here for several weeks with my writing club. Which means, for the past month, I've been a pretty dedicated customer to them. Yesterday, my writing team met, and I hadn't bought anything yet (as I wasn't aware that one, a cafe has a mandatory buying policy—and two, that it has to be done in the first fifteen minutes), this lady, presumably the manager goes, "did you buy anything?" I guess, 'hi, how are you?' is included in the tax? I softly said, "No." But, after we finished with our first prompt I was going to go up and get an iced mocha. Loveee an iced mocha. This lady, presumably the manager, but again very rude goes, "well, you can't be in here if you don't buy anything." Ma'am, this isn't a Chilli's.
I don't even want to point out that her tone with me in contrast to the other customers, who were well—a different race—received a more gentle approach. As if her impression of me, from I guess, looking at the back of my head, was that I was going to scam her out of the $6.34 I was going to give anyway. Since, I was just there last week. I understand that The Bean has a policy, and I respect it (I literally bought an iced mocha right after), but to be so crass in tone, and also impolite makes me feel as if the policy was really for a feeling of power. Since, once I got to the counter, the very friendly cashier goes, "did she get you too?" As if she's some hall monitor checking for passes. It's giving slave-catcher. The last time I checked, the first fifteen minutes of which you go into any establishment comes with a grace period. No one kicks you out of a library if you haven't checked out a book in fifteen minutes. No one kicks you out of a restaurant if you haven't decided between the cocktail, a glass of pinot grigio, or if you want to go straight for appetizers and just have some water for now. Beacon's closet isn't going to kick you out because you haven't found the right banana-colored round-neck button down sweater yet. And yet, somehow, at The Bean—a cafe, mind you—I might potentially be forced to leave because of an assumption that I'm going to cheat the workers, and not buy—hold on, let me check my receipt—a coffee. Let's have some decorum, please.
And hey, maybe after the week of election, especially with those results, and the statistics we have, you shouldn't peer down to look at your customer [description redacted] with a sort of 'como se dice,' uh....certainty, that she wasn't going to buy anything. It feels very accusatory, and that kind of vibe isn't meshing with the blue beaded bracelet allyship Katy Perry aroma that's happening here. Thanks!
Mesut Uzman
The Bean is a cozy, friendly spot that’s perfect for a quiet breakfast. I come here regularly and love their variety of acai bowls. Highly recommend for a relaxing start to the day!
Awesome, huge place to work or come w a group. Good coffee too! Sometimes a line for food
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Nutella Fitzgerald
I come here almost every time I’m scheduled for work, but I can’t make a quick trip to use the rest room. I won’t be coming back.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 1
The latte here is excellent, perhaps not often seen in New York. It was not sour, as is the case in many coffee shops. If I lived nearby, this is the only place I would come for coffee! ☕
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
This is a small coffee shop near Astor Place where I got a latte and a brownie. It was fine overall.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 4
Nice atmosphere just the chairs are uncomfy and it seems all the tables are wobbly. It’s really nice how laptop friendly the cafe is and is very nice to study in, just the coffee is not very good. Tasted like warm milk and a hint of instant coffee and very expensive for the quality of what you get. The pastries looked promising but did not try any this time. Lots of gluten free cookies though!
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 3
Please... Take responsibility and Reduce plastic waste ... If people stay inside no trash covers should be offered!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
One of my most visited places because of location, great for studying and college students. Rewards program and very kind staff who helped when I spilled my drink over.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Spacious NYC coffee shop with super duper cool artwork, drawings and decor all around you! Makes the experience more fun and interesting. Layout of shop is nice with plenty of seating areas. One of my favorite coffee spots to go to while in New York, East Village. Coffee is delish here and the fresh warm pastries! Menu is interesting as well with many options, great creative scene!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 3
Great selection of coffee, smoothies and snacks. Very creative drinks like the nutella latte that you can’t find everywhere and tastes so good. The place can get busy but there are plenty of seats to hang out and get some work done on your laptop (with wifi and a printer!).
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
A surprisingly relaxed spot for conversation and latte, in the space of the old St. Mark’s Bookshop (1977-2016). Plenty of student types and co-working, big bright space, big selection of coffee. I want to try the açaí bowl things, they look competitive with Playa Bowls. Solid stop when you’re cutting through the neighborhood.
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
Restaurantji Recommends
My girlfriend and I went to this coffee shop for breakfast on Monday morning and left disgusted & embarrassed.
Our experience was so terrible that I had to take the time to write this review.
From the moment we entered; we were greeted by an unpleasant odor. It smelled as if they have been using an old dirty mop to clean the floors. That greeting was quickly followed up by a woman who scolded a patron for putting 2 tables together.
We were limited on time so we decided to disregard it, grab a quick bite and get on with our day.
The man who took our order wasn’t the most pleasant but He isn’t what motivated me to write this review.
My girlfriend and I were picking up our order and my girlfriend was trying to get the attention of the workers because we needed a stirrer for our coffee.
After saying “excuse me” 3 times and being ignored, my girlfriend decided to reach over the counter to grab 1 herself.
The woman who worked behind the counter had the audacity to scream at the top of her lungs, from across the room, grabbing everyone’s attention inside the shop.
She continued to berate my girlfriend even after she apologized for reaching over.
The fact that someone believes they are in a position to talk to people the way she does is atrocious. Mind you, we are NOT children. We are 40 year old woman! I don't care how bad of a day You’re having, NOBODY has the right to do this. ESPECIALLY in the service industry.
I have worked in customer service for over 25 years and As a business owner myself, I was shocked & appalled by that workers behavior.
How someone like that can continue to work in an establishment that is based solely on customer service is just bad for business!
If the owner is smart, he will reconsider the people he chooses to employ.
One thing’s for sure….
We will never step foot in this place again!
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Please consider putting more care into the way you craft a hot chocolate. Very disappointed.
Has really gone downhill. They only had ONE GUY working on a busy Monday morning. Why would management do that to him and to their own business? He gave fine service but was obviously overwhelmed. I ordered at 10:53AM and didn't actually get my food or receipt until 11:15AM, so I obviously missed the 15-minute window for the wifi. It's too much of a hassle to keep coming here.
Hi! I've been coming here for several weeks with my writing club. Which means, for the past month, I've been a pretty dedicated customer to them. Yesterday, my writing team met, and I hadn't bought anything yet (as I wasn't aware that one, a cafe has a mandatory buying policy—and two, that it has to be done in the first fifteen minutes), this lady, presumably the manager goes, "did you buy anything?" I guess, 'hi, how are you?' is included in the tax? I softly said, "No." But, after we finished with our first prompt I was going to go up and get an iced mocha. Loveee an iced mocha. This lady, presumably the manager, but again very rude goes, "well, you can't be in here if you don't buy anything." Ma'am, this isn't a Chilli's.
I don't even want to point out that her tone with me in contrast to the other customers, who were well—a different race—received a more gentle approach. As if her impression of me, from I guess, looking at the back of my head, was that I was going to scam her out of the $6.34 I was going to give anyway. Since, I was just there last week. I understand that The Bean has a policy, and I respect it (I literally bought an iced mocha right after), but to be so crass in tone, and also impolite makes me feel as if the policy was really for a feeling of power. Since, once I got to the counter, the very friendly cashier goes, "did she get you too?" As if she's some hall monitor checking for passes. It's giving slave-catcher. The last time I checked, the first fifteen minutes of which you go into any establishment comes with a grace period. No one kicks you out of a library if you haven't checked out a book in fifteen minutes. No one kicks you out of a restaurant if you haven't decided between the cocktail, a glass of pinot grigio, or if you want to go straight for appetizers and just have some water for now. Beacon's closet isn't going to kick you out because you haven't found the right banana-colored round-neck button down sweater yet. And yet, somehow, at The Bean—a cafe, mind you—I might potentially be forced to leave because of an assumption that I'm going to cheat the workers, and not buy—hold on, let me check my receipt—a coffee. Let's have some decorum, please.
And hey, maybe after the week of election, especially with those results, and the statistics we have, you shouldn't peer down to look at your customer [description redacted] with a sort of 'como se dice,' uh....certainty, that she wasn't going to buy anything. It feels very accusatory, and that kind of vibe isn't meshing with the blue beaded bracelet allyship Katy Perry aroma that's happening here. Thanks!
The Bean is a cozy, friendly spot that’s perfect for a quiet breakfast. I come here regularly and love their variety of acai bowls. Highly recommend for a relaxing start to the day!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
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