Spoon Coffee House & Eatery

So sad this place closed down! I used to go there pretty regularly for lunch. They had great coffee and really good sandwiches. :-(

Spoon is great! The spinach artichoke dip is great as are the pizzas and paninis. I love the coffee very much as well. The ambiance is cool but cozy at the same time. Nice and quiet for lunch, sometimes for dinner too unless its open mic night. The staff are very nice and accommodating. I really just love it here. Affordable, delicious, warm.

The spoon is a every nice place to sit down and have a bit to eat. The food was good and the service was excellent

I really just needed a place to sit down and work on my laptop in between meetings, and have a nice drink and quick meal. This provided an excellent spot to do just that, and the food was pleasantly delicious.
The minestrone soup was nice, especially given that it was a cold day. The beans had good flavor in the soup.
Between the blackberry sage tea, and the coconut almond tea, the coconut almond wins the day. That beverage has excellent flavor. It was a little odd that it seems they have psychic readings and dream interpretations at the coffee house, but that did not affect my visit during work hours.
The place seems family run, and the wait staff a served me was very kind and helpful.

I came here last Thursday during the double rainbow afternoon. No one but another couple was there when I got there with my sis at 4:15, 45 mins later the place is relatively full and the barista put on her cardigan and became the waitress.
I ordered 2 types of teas one that I forgot and the other one that had pomegranate in, the latter was great. My sis had the frozen hot chocolate and a vanilla chai latte which she both enjoyed as well. The bruscheta was nice and light, maybe a bit too much vinegar but it wasn’t a deal breaker.
They have a section for lunch-​dinner seating and the window side seating where I sat was more for café like where one can pull out their laptop like i did. At one point they had a John Mayer track going every couple songs which was great.
This place has more food and a unique tea menu which makes it slightly different than the Babylon Bean.

We came here with friends not too long ago. The menu is definitely more oriented for lunch or café menu so it was probably not the best idea to come during dinner. Their sandwich melts were mostly good and I liked their desserts a lot. They have a DIY s’mores which is always fun.

Site of the short film «Love Is…» An Original Musical, this place is a true coffee house. With Open Mikes, Dream interpretations, it’s got a great atmosphere to sit down and be Artistic and Creative. PLUS… The coffee and food are top notch!

Best café in Long Island? I believe so!
I’ve performed here for open mic many many many times… people are always always nice… welcoming
Food is excellent… especially their spinach artichoke dip… best I’ve ever had! Their sandwiches are good too… salads as well… never had a bad experience with their food.
Coffee also tastes great.
Music is always good at spoon… the music they play or the live performances.
Overall it’s a good hang out spot… I’m not a person that normally hangs out in Long Island… but if my friends and I just want to chill in Long Island, Spoon is definitely one of the very very few places to be.

I may not always drink coffee but when I do, it’s at this place. And the fact that they support local artists is one of the best qualities.
And the food is really good and friendly staff who actually seem as if they love being there. Isn’t that what it’s all about? The owners seem to really care as well and go out of their way to make you feel comfortable and so I will come back.

Not a bad coffee shop, located on main street. A large selection of drinks but the place is more atmosphere then good coffee. Their deserts are amazing though and I would recommend the place for a very chill evening.

I live very close to this quaint café. The staff is always very kind and accommodating, and the food is usually very good =)
The coffee and teas are excellent, and we always have a great time here. The only thing we are not a fan of is the live music, it seems to be too loud usually and we just aren’t a fan of live music in general. We try to come on the days there is no live music happening. Otherwise it’s a great café and I recommend it!

So, I was so excited to try a new café. I’ve been to the cup and witches brew, but my favorite café was located by my college and I have been on a hunt to find something similar (I’ll take half as good) on the island but I can’t.
Now, my 2 stars, has nothing to do with the fact that it does not match up with what I’m looking for. It has to do with my actual visit there…and I’m not even including the bad live music as a fault they could control.
So, I had a big group and we were all arriving separately, at slightly different times. (they knew we were a bigger group — 9 — and they reserved us 2 booths… we had to ask to move into a bigger seating area where we could all be together — a seating area that was empty the whole time). I came in second and about one minute after I sat down I was asked what I wanted to drink (which I don’t mind, but I had just said hello and had no time to look at the menu). The waitress then had a minor panic asking if I just sat and did I need another minute (yes.), but then she never came back to check if I wanted anything. Our second booth arrived, got drinks and ordered desert before she checked if there was anything our table needed. When we moved, I had to actually tell her I needed to order and she had to go get her pad and return (not a big deal because she actually came back). 2 waitresses for that small place… and they couldn’t handle it. They should just have you order and pay at the counter yourself.
As for the drink menu, thoroughly disappointing. Coffee selections were limited. Regular, decaf or strong. And flavor syrups galore. No lattes? Or specialty coffees. Just syrups. They mostly seem to make frappes (which were huge and kind-​of like milkshakes). I got one with coffee (which I think they forgot to put in) and blended oreos… so it tasted like i was drinking oreos which, at this point in the night, I was cool with.
Desserts? The owner is obviously cheap. The peanut butter pie is the caramel pie…which doesn’t quite work when you think about it (but I knew that before I ordered it — it’s really peanu tbutter, which i wanted). And the oreo cheesecake is regular cheesecake with oreos and chocolate sauce on-​top. I also had a cheesecake crêpe… which was warm and odd but okay. And my friends got brownie and blondie sundaes. (I’m actually happily surprised to see they have blondies).
If my car broke down and I was stuck out in 105degree weather for an hour, I might come here to drink an oreo milkshake and wait. In a snow storm, maybe I’d come for a coffee. But there is a cvs across the street and I actually might rather wait there.

What a gem. A good old friend of mine lives in the area so I try to come here with her as often as possible for coffee and dessert. Their vanilla chai latte is OUTRAGEOUS. It’s sweeter than your average chai latte but I don’t mind at all. If you’re even kind of maybe entertaining the idea of getting it, GET IT.
When they started expanding their menu to include more savory, dinner-​esque fares I was concerned that a) the place would lose its endearing, non-​hipster coffehouse-​esque atmosphere and b) it wouldn’t be good. I’m so silly! The atmosphere was unchanged and the food tasty. Not my first choice for dinner but you could absolutely do much worse. They offer wraps, sandwiches, pizzas, and they don’t fry anything which is nice. The desserts are really quite delightful. You can’t go wrong with any of them.

My favorite coffee house. I’ve been coming here for about seven years, and I’m just in love with it. The coffee is great, the servers are always friendly, the menu is varied for a coffee shop, and the ambience is genuine and comfortable. It’s a cozy, cool coffee place, neither a hole in the wall, nor a corporate chain, nor a trendy, hipster-​crowded nest.
The one thing to watch out for (and I’m hesitant to say anything negative about it) is that if you go on an open mic night, each member of your party will be charged an extra dollar, and you will have difficulty hearing each other over the noise.

Aw I really like this place and I have a feeling I am going to like it more and more!
i love places that support local musicians. I have not tried a ton on the menu but I did have the BLT sandwich which I am still thinking about! The bread was so crispy out and soft inside and I loved the well done-​ish bacon so this sandwich, while so simple, made me so happy.
I will write more about this place another time. I would like to try some of thier beverages and actually would like to play there one night!
Definitely support places like this :)

I’m not a big java guy… I prefer the hard stuff. But coffeehouses often have very tranquil atmospheres and that’s something I can really appreciate. Life is maddening sometimes so its always good to take some time to yourself and reboot the computer. You probably can get the same type of feel at a library or a bookstore but let’s not kid ourselves, that’s how nerds get down.
So a friend and I met up here one night to chillax with some hot bevs. Definitely NOT what I expected. The place is smaller than the pictures suggest and there was a wait. Plus, you can’t really just order then find a seat– you have to be seated and then order — restaurant style. Complete whackness. But the topper, and this is just my bad luck… it was open microphone night, and not up and coming comedians or American Idol hopefuls… it was kids. Don’t get me wrong, it was kind of adorable (and deafening at the same time) but it just wasn’t what I was expecting.
The drinks themselves were good and large! They have some white chocolate drinks and tons of other stuff including desserts. Service was OK.
I’m giving it 2 stars but I am sure it’s a better experience on different days. The place itself is nice, just wasn’t for me.

Spoon doesn’t impress me. The waitress that normally works here is bleak and not very personable. Some of the food is good (the pizzas stand out) and the drinks are huge, which is a plus. Desserts are yummy. Tea selection is lacking. Nothing too unique here and the place seems to market itself as a hip and off-​beat hangout – hardly the truth given the amount of screaming children and unreasonably early closing hours – not condusive to studying or late-​night storytelling.
Overall, it’s not bad, just not something I’m not too enthused about. However, with local cafes on Long Island are becoming a rarity (I’ve been searching desperately for a café to fill the void left by the closing of Pisces Café in Babylon, to no avail) I’ll probably be back anyway.

I have a new found appreciation for the spoon. Especially when the privately owned cafes on long island are closing faster than Venus fly traps on their dinner (check out my non-​starsmucks list on Unilocal for proof!).
On a quiet weeknight night, the spoon is a more than appropriate venue to do some after hours work on your laptop, or enjoy the company of someone special. Avoid it like the plague on fri/​sat nights if you’re interested in hearing anything the person next to you is saying. On most weekends, local talent loudly floods the air with creative renditions of Beatles songs, classic rock, etc. If you’re into that jive, come here on the weekend to grab a cup of joe and appreciate local musicians.
As for the atmosphere, it’s like your downtown indie café but super clean and grown up. Warm earth tones of green, reds, browns accentuate the roomy interior of the café. Local artwork adorns the walls. White Christmas lights line the window, red curtains give privacy and there’s even booth seating for maximum tush satisfaction.
The bruchetta makes for a semi-​healthy snack. The bread is warm and soft, sprinkled with Parmesan cheese. Pizzas are ridiculously large and filling, eat half and save the rest for lunch. As for drinks, the vanilla chai is my mainstay drink, whether it be hot or cold. I believe they use the chai amore powered mix. Not entirely creative, but still delicious. All of the loose teas are good. They’re served «cup» style– Loose tea in a ball strainer dunked in a clear mug. Acceptable.
The café appropriately named after my favorite utensil (next to the knife of course when my serial killer instincts kick in) would be worthy of 5 stars except for the following.
— They close abnormally EARLY on weekends and weeknights. By 10:20 their doors are closed on weekends, 9:30ish on weekdays. Sometimes they’ll kick you out early without much warning. No late night snacks or study sessions.
— Plenty of «local talent.» Yeah, I can dig the acoustic guitar sometimes. but it gets so loud in here I can’t hear myself think. Sometimes they have little kids perform. Cute, but really only self-​serving to the parents. The loud performances are especially a problem when I’m working on something important. If I want drinks and loud music, I’ll head to a bar.
— Limited tea options. I’m admittedly a tea snob and would love to see some creative brew here.
— Your selection of wines is limited to the oh so extensive quality of sutter home. If they wanted to please the masses, they could start pouring inexpensive bottles of north fork wine and support the long island economy. Heck, I’d even drink pindar, which is normally a moral sin for me.
Take the good with the bad and support your local cafes!

I love going to the Spoon. It’s friendly, it’s warm, it’s bright and comfortable. If you go, order the peanut butter torte. It’s served hot and nearly melting, a confection of peanut butter mousse inside a chocolate cup. Think Reese’s, only on the divine scale.
My experiences at the Spoon have been spotty, though; one time our table was given to someone else after the waitress said we were next to be seated, another time a friend and I were told they were closing up, although we were in the process of eating. Granted, it was 9:00 or so on a weeknight, but they could have told us when we sat down and ordered that they would be closing up shortly.
The Spoon closes comparatively early to other coffeehouses; it would be a nice place to stop in after a movie or a night out, but even on the weekends it shuts down by 10:30.
In spite of the iffy service I’ve experienced in the past, I’ve gone back for a quick bite or for coffee with friends, and normally it’s wonderful; both of my negative experiences occurred a while ago now. I would recommend the Spoon for lunch, a light dinner, or dessert, or just coffee and catching up with friends.

A cute little coffeehouse just a few minutes from my parents’ house. Awesome! I have somewhere to go during the day to get away and get some work done.
They have free wi-​fi. The owner and his staff are marvelous! The girls were quick and efficient with my requests and orders, and they were made «just right»! I had tried their eggplant parm ’cause I wanted to be vegetarian for the day, and it was pretty good! I was actually upset when I forgot about my leftover in my parents’ fridge on my way back to Massachusetts and remembered as I was crossing over the Throgs Neck Bridge.
They also had live performance beginning at 6 or 7 pm (I can’t remember the start time). Any coffeehouse that supports the local artists/​performers are «A Okay» in my book. Speaking of which, the coffeehouse had some artwork along their walls that intrigued me. Now, if only I could have afforded these pieces, I would have taken them home with me.
The shop itself has somewhat of a «loungey» feel to it, as the velvet-​like booth that wraps along their front window is a deep red with mini circular tables to compliment it. On the right are filled with comfortable table booths. What added to the flair of the table booths are the table lamps over each of the tables. They don’t match and I LIKE IT! Their menu — on chalk board! Oh YEH!!! They also sell t-​shirts with the store’s name on it.
So, basically what I’m trying to tell you is that if you’re in the area, or even a townie, go support this local coffeehouse. You won’t regret it!