coffee: an isolation series

Our Bustelo store...prior to COVID-19.

Places I would have liked coffee from, but smartly weren’t open:

Cafe Grumpy
Odd Fox
Champion Coffee (Nassau Ave)

Ovenly

Places that weren’t open, but I only was pretending I would have gotten coffee from anyway:

Champion Coffee (Manhattan Ave)
Ashbox Cafe

Woops Bakeshop

Places open, but I chose not to check out:

Eleva - This apparently recently opened in those big new condo buildings on that new street,

“Bell Slip”. I need some time to accept that this street exists and that someday, possibly, I will try

the coffee here. I just wasn’t sure if I could get there yet, like when the Bachelor tells the ladies he

likes, but just hasn’t gotten to know as well compared to the other women who are left on the show,

and can’t give them a rose.

Eagle Street Trading Co - I got anxious as I thought it was too close to closing time to bother them

with an espresso request.

Unknown, aka I forgot to walk up those blocks:

Bakeri

Sweetleaf (Greenpoint)

Attempts this week to associate coffee with home rather than the outdoors in light of social distancing:

- Using a grinder my dad bought me for the first time after months of occasionally looking at it, but never
making an attempt to utilize.

- Making Bustelo in the little Bialetti.



A Timeline:

Last chance last week at Charlotte

Current situation: Home

Last chance to-go coffee from Variety

Last chance to-go coffee at Hungry Ghost