Manhattan - Upper West Side

HAMPTON CHUTNEY
Coffee Served: Cardamom Coffee

464 Amsterdam Avenue, between 82nd and 83rd Streets
TRAINS:
79th St. or 86th St.



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This is not a coffee shop. (The food is delicious.) But I bring people from out of town here just for the coffee. Since this is doctored-up, sweetened coffee, I don't know how good it would be black..but as it's served here..delicious.

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Manhattan - Soho

HAMPTON CHUTNEY
Coffee Served: Cardamom Coffee

68 Prince Street, at Crosby Street
TRAINS:
Prince St.
Broadway-Lafayette
Spring St.



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This is not a coffee shop. (The food is delicious.) But I bring people from out of town here just for the coffee. Since this is doctored-up, sweetened coffee, I don't know how good it would be black..but as it's served here..delicious.

NY Mag review of Hampton Chutney
Citysearch review of Hampton Chutney

Manhattan - West Village (NYU area)

THINK COFFEE
Coffee Served: Fair trade, organic and shade-grown...

248 Mercer Street, at 3rd St.
TRAINS:
Bleecker
Broadway-Lafayette
8th St. - NYU
W. 4th St.


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I've been here once. I had an americano. Not my favorite coffee. But really not bad at all/pretty good. (I didn't add cream to my americano..but I think I may not have quite finished it.) For now, it's the best I've found in this area and quite decent.

They also have teas, pastries, soups, sandwiches, salads..
The shop itself is much larger than it looks (or at least--than it looked to me) from the outside.

Think Coffee has tables and stools and couches where people seem to settle in for quite a while. Probably a good place to work or study if you like a lot of background noise--and if you manage to get a decent spot before it fills up. (For better or for worse, this is near NYU, and that's reflected in the crowd here.)