Variety Coffee Roasters
Variety Coffee Roasters offers exceptional coffee with a focus on quality espresso drinks, featuring fruity and chocolatey notes with balanced flavor profiles. The warm, classy atmosphere attracts both remote workers and casual visitors, with friendly baristas providing excellent service in a spacious setting that includes indoor and outdoor seating options.
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9 months ago
Coffee is excellent, I’ve ordered a flat white and latte there, both had great texture and lovely latte art from the baristas! The beans they use haves notes of fruit and chocolate, nicely pulled and balanced espresso. Also they offer vanilla simple syrup along with regular simple syrup which is a fun plus! The employees are friendly and the atmosphere is classy (if you can get a seat).
7 months ago
Baristas were so friendly. I liked the fact that I could (for the first time) find the time and atmosphere to talked to a barista in NYC! Generally coffee shops are crowded and baristas seem to be fed up with the work and crowd. In Variety, it was the opposite. Espresso beans were a little dark roasted, preserving rhe acidity and complexness. Worth visiting! P.S. it has a joyful, corner space, ideal to sit.
Edited 8 months ago
At their Lexington Avenue and 85th Street store I tried their oatmeal raisin as well as their chive cookies ($3.24 each, including tax). Each had a very mild flavor which was not satisfying. For the oatmeal cookie (pictured first), I give it a 6.5 rating on a scale of 1 to 10, the chive cookie I rate a 6. I have had other baked items here which I have enjoyed more than the oatmeal and chive cookies.
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