Manhattan cafes roasted upstate in Millerton, New York Magazine's 2002 Best Coffee.
Dave Elwell and Steve Leven, the original owners, opened their first cafe at 52 Irving Place in 1996 and converted a Millerton carriage house into a roastery two years later. The company says it still roasts all its coffee there. They moved to 71 Irving Place in 2001, a year before the award.
Santa Isabel, the Guatemalan farm of Alex and Martin Keller, has supplied Irving Farm since 2012. The Monserrate cooperative in Huila, Colombia, has been a partner since 2013 and receives a fixed price for its coffee. The company says it has contributed over $30,000 since 2017 toward wastewater treatment and solar coffee drying there.
