Café Grumpy

Chinatown & Two Bridges

HoursOpen · Closes 19:00

TypeRoaster · Small Chain

Greenpoint cafe from 2005, whose roastery moved to a former flower warehouse.

Caroline Bell and Chris Timbrell opened the first Café Grumpy in Greenpoint in 2005, after training in Seattle with Kyle Glanville. Roasting moved out of the back of that cafe to a former flower warehouse up the block, where a 15-kilo Probat L12 was joined by a 45-kilo Probat G45 by 2014.

Victrola was Grumpy's first roaster. Its coffee is roasted in Brooklyn.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

At this shop

The shop takes the ground floor of a brick building at 13 Essex Street, with a bench on the sidewalk against its front window. Exposed brick runs along one side of the room, above a mosaic tile floor that leads back to a wooden counter. Pour-over stands and the espresso machine sit in the open behind it.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠