Coffee and the Voice
Last night I went to bed early because I got home from work so late. I'd spent the day in gnarly Somers, NY speaking about RSS and Social Tagging on behalf of IBM at a Web 2.0 Summit. Interesting stuff, but doing the same presentation 3x in a row, being video taped and having execs in the room while your presenting takes up a lot of energy. It's always surprising to me how similarly I feel after a big presentation and a musical performance. I guess the two draw on the same reserves of performance-energy.
Anyway, went to bed early last night and so I woke up early today. It was just so nice to go to Cafe Gelato (I think that's the name) on the corner of 10th Street and 1st Ave (right across from where I live) and have a cappucino and a chocolate croissant while reading the Village Voice. I honestly think this place has the best coffee in town. They prepare it lovingly and without pomposity nor any of the BS you find at Starbucks (grande, verde, merde!) This place uses Lavazza coffee beans, which for those of you who care, are the real deal. I recommend real milk and sugar in the raw (I usually use skim and Equal, but not at this place) for cappucinos served here.
And their chocolate croissants are top rate too. And this is coming from a guy who perfected the art of eating chocolate croissants at an early age (my elementary school was a French Magnet School) and went on to pursue an advanced degree in choco-croissant-ology while living in Paris in the '90s. The cafe at 10th street and 1st avenue (which, by the way, also serves wine and beer) makes both Italian and French style chocolate croissants -- go for the French style. The Italian ones are ok, but they are more like canolis. I think they use some kind of ricotta in the filling and they are not as buttery. The French style croissants are naked on the premises and will transport you to, uh, France, I guess. What I mean to say is: they are damn good and true to form.
Anyway, that was a great start to a kind of bland day -- I just did some paperwork and stayed inside (away from the heat, rain and humid air.) But yeah...eat some croissants! Drink some coffee! Read the Voice! (even if their Sexpert pales in comparison to Time Out New York's witty Jamie Buffalino.)
Anyway, went to bed early last night and so I woke up early today. It was just so nice to go to Cafe Gelato (I think that's the name) on the corner of 10th Street and 1st Ave (right across from where I live) and have a cappucino and a chocolate croissant while reading the Village Voice. I honestly think this place has the best coffee in town. They prepare it lovingly and without pomposity nor any of the BS you find at Starbucks (grande, verde, merde!) This place uses Lavazza coffee beans, which for those of you who care, are the real deal. I recommend real milk and sugar in the raw (I usually use skim and Equal, but not at this place) for cappucinos served here.
And their chocolate croissants are top rate too. And this is coming from a guy who perfected the art of eating chocolate croissants at an early age (my elementary school was a French Magnet School) and went on to pursue an advanced degree in choco-croissant-ology while living in Paris in the '90s. The cafe at 10th street and 1st avenue (which, by the way, also serves wine and beer) makes both Italian and French style chocolate croissants -- go for the French style. The Italian ones are ok, but they are more like canolis. I think they use some kind of ricotta in the filling and they are not as buttery. The French style croissants are naked on the premises and will transport you to, uh, France, I guess. What I mean to say is: they are damn good and true to form.
Anyway, that was a great start to a kind of bland day -- I just did some paperwork and stayed inside (away from the heat, rain and humid air.) But yeah...eat some croissants! Drink some coffee! Read the Voice! (even if their Sexpert pales in comparison to Time Out New York's witty Jamie Buffalino.)
posted by Ethan at 5:20 PM
6 Comments:
I dare you to try out the capps and chocolicious croissants at Le Pain Quotidien... Not to mention their giant chocolate chip cookie! mmm...
I love the espresso at that place, and the Italian chocolate things -- haven't tried the French yet. I got a soy hot chocolate there once and it was basically chocolate goo. I had to eat it with a spoon and couldn't get beyond the first third. Damn, I miss New York!
But why does it shroud its name in mystery? I can never figure out if it's called Cafe e Gelato or Taralucci [sp.?] e Vino, as both are written on the awning and both seem to be descriptions of merchandise so far as I can tell. We need a translator of Italian, and I have just the clever black-wearing long-dark-curly-haired lady in mind. Fear not. All will be clear in the next couple of weeks.
Anna -- Le Pain Quotidien is pretty awesome; I went there a long time ago and remember having a yummy coffee. Alas, not within easy walking dist. of my pad -- but I'll give a it a try next time I'm in SoHo.
Geeti -- yeah, what's up with that?!?! I was trying to find them in CitySearch so I could give them a cyber-shoutout with a link...but no luck!
"The French style croissants are naked on the premises and will transport you to, uh, France, I guess"
Naked on the premises? Am I not geting something or is that a totally bizarre slip?
Um, guess the B and N keys are a little close on my keyboard. Baked on the premises. But they're so good you may find yourself ripping off your clothes or launching into a Harry-Met-Sally-style resturaunt orgasm scene.
Yeah, I was just about to ask about the naked croissants. I was on that block yesterday and I didn't see any.
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