Cafehop.com — Café hopping in New York City

Mario emailed me today — “IT’S A WINTER WONDERLAND!” Maybe down in the calm Village. Here on bustling 23rd Street, just days before we’re scheduled to move to Bushwick, it’s a cesspool of gray-brown slush. It could have been a fun day for Niko, who has never played in snow, but by the time I found him a clean patch of fresh snow to play in we were both frozen. He did his business in the median between Broadway and 5th on 23rd, and tried to play in the snow but his paws got numb and he began to trip.

I think instead of even trying to get on all my gear and meet anyone for coffee, I’ll just sit here in my disaster of an apartment and drink my own coffee among the boxes.

Yes, the holy trinity of keeping warm: a fresh cup of coffee, unadulterated heavy cream, and a pot of sugar.

Mario and I were sitting in the small back room of a Soho patisserie the other day, critiquing the croissant we were sharing, when I blurted out: “We should do a café review blog.” He said something like “uh-huh, sure.” The thing is, once a week we go to at least two, many times three, and sometimes four different places to get coffee and maybe a pastry, and an occasional lunch. We café hop. I’m not sure there are very many people who have been to as many cafés in their whole lives as we go to in three months. So why not share what we find? And here we are.