Brooklyn shop named for a three-legged cat, Onyx as house roaster.
Leeor Waisbrod and Adelaide Cope met working in coffee on the Jersey Shore, and named the shop after Pirate, a three-legged cat Leeor adopted in 2018. Leeor, who has an architecture background, drew the 3D renderings of the space, and they took over 142 Waterbury Street in 2024.
Onyx Coffee Lab is the house roaster, with its Geometry blend always available. Guests include Loveless, DAK and the local nano-roaster Obscure. A La Marzocco Strada retrofitted with conical valves pulls espresso, and the pour-over bar runs V60 and AeroPress.
A reclaimed timber ceiling with a skylight runs the length of the narrow room, with a pale oak bar down one side and a bench along the whitewashed brick wall opposite.
