La Colombe Coffee

Voted the #3 Favorite Coffee of New Yorkers according to this list:

Great neighborhood spot and real deal coffee. Almond croissant was on fire. Only there once, but will go back when in the area!

My favourite coffee shop in the city. The coffee is great. The cold press coffee in the bottle is INSANE. I throughly enjoy how it makes me feel like my heart is going to explode out of my chest and do all of my tasks for me. I generally feel invincible after a bottle. The staff are nice & chill. The long lines are a bit crazy, so pick your timing (especially at the one in NOHO), but it’s very much worth it.

Excellent coffee and nice variety of bean and brewing options. For each one you can order «classic» or «workshop», with the latter being a slight upgrade. For instance, the Drip is Cordoza for the Classic and a bean from Mexico is the «Worksop». In any event, these guys take coffee roasting and brewing to a new level that I’ve never seen in a retail operation. The result is in each cup you drink.

Very cool spot that seems very serious about their coffee. I had their workshop drip and it was delicious. Really like the interior space, especially the bar seating. Great for people watching in the cooper Union area through the huge Windows, but it’s a high traffic area so seats are snatched as soon as they are vacated. Vibe feels a little too busy for a relaxing café afternoon but great place for a quick coffee and a spot to sit and chat if you don’t mind the hustle and bustle.

This location is better than the smaller one. The staffs are friendly and quick, it didn’t take long to get my order.
Their latte is very creamy and smooth. The milk and coffee is so well mix that gives the full bold taste with a hit of the bitter from the coffee afterwards.
It is always a great stop to grab coffee after class or meeting up with friends. Only down side is there are not much of seats, it is always crowded in the weekends.

Just north on Lafayette from the SoHo one, this corner La Colombe always has a massive line, but today was only about 10 people. Sadly, the line isn’t handled very well, with a very confusing setup where at least one and sometimes 3 separate people ask you for your order at a random point in the line, with some ignoring it and passing you on to wait for the next one. Went with a tasty but small City Bakery «Croissant Almond» for $ 3.25 because the NYC locations don’t carry ice cream sandwiches, and the cashier took some time to make some jokes about the «see ID» in the signature space on my card.

Luckily the excellent La Colombe has a flagship store on the way back to the East Side. At La Columbe, a massive temple to the majestic coffee bean, complete with marble décor and massive pillars, any coffee beverage you can imagine will quickly be made by a great barista while you wrap your way around the central bar. The cold brew coffee on tap, as well as what they call a draft latte are delicious, and even better is a combination of the two called a black and tan. The dark coffee stays on the bottom with the light latte at the top due to the magical science of liquid tension. Now you can enjoy a tasty coffee and learn physics! Also, the combination is incredibly smooth and delicious. The baristas are perfectly West Coast here, amazing at making drinks, but a bit relaxed and you may have to repeat your order four or five times.

This was one of my favorite coffee shops while I was a student at NYU and it remains a place I love to visit when I am back in NYC. I had to come back to try the latte on draft and it was well worth it! I’ve never had a coffee like this but I hope more shops catch on and try to do a similar drink. It’s a great place to catch up with old friends and I’m sure I’ll be back again soon.

I wish I could just emoji my review because I would give them like 10 thumbs up. I love their coffee, it’s a staple at home.
Draft latte, black and tan, pure black… all wonderful choices. Americano is my drink of choice though… :)

Very nice café to sit and enjoy a cup of latte. The latte was very smooth tasting and not bitter. No need to add sugar. There was a generous amount of milk foam. The latte art, a leaf, was pretty. Just wished it closed at a later hour.

I’ve been to this location and the smaller location (a few blocks south) a handful of times. Each time service was quick and friendly (despite the long line). I especially like their lattes on tap! They’re super creamy, yummy and smooth. I’ve had their regular brews and hot lattes as well, all pretty decent.
I come here often to meet friends or just kill time. The crowd can be kind of annoying with obnoxious NYU kids and some pretentious hipsters. It can be hard to find seating at times.

This is the coffee shop I go to when I want to treat myself to a truly good Americano — and an almond croissant, of course.
I have had Americanos from here, as well as hot lattes and the draft latte. The draft latte is interesting, but I enjoyed it as a «later in the day cup of coffee», somehow like a dessert without sugar. Like on reviewer noted, it reminds me a little bit of a milkshake.
The almond croissants, though; they’re half the reason I drag myself down here. Light, buttery, crunchy, cakey, sweet: they’re basically everything you could ask for in a dessert. Get one: it’s worth the 3 dollars. Just make sure you get in before they sell out.
Also, I love the dishware. The coffee cups with doves on them really make the place a little more quaint and cute.

La Columbe Torrefaction
NY Manhattan NoHo
12:30pm Wednesday 4^th November 2015
Five Stars
This mini chain of Coffee Shops are by far my favorite in the city. They do everything well. This shop is slightly less crowded than the original which is just a couple blocks away and always with a line out of the door. This location had a large center island where you could order, wait for, and receive your coffee. There was not much seating but they were a couple places inside and outside. (I saw Malcom Gladwell outside on a bench). I had an ice coffee on this unseasonably warm November day.
The best part of this location is the self service water station with still and sparkling.
As always, a great experience.

PSA: LA COLOMBE IS NOW SERVING CITY BAKERY PRETZEL CROISSANTS!
Their recent partnership with City Bakery means that they’re now serving their pretzel croissants and tartines. They’re not out-​of-​the-​oven warm, but the pretzel croissant I got was still very fresh and still 100% amazing.
Almond latte was also out of this world. One star off cause those two items run you 9 bucks, which is fine but still.
Either way, what are you still reading this for… RUN!

Ugh their almond croissant though SOOO on FLEEK. Crunchy on the outside yet chewy and sufficiently fills your mouth with amazing taste of sweetness but just the right amount, it doesn’t overflow. The white powder on top goes with the dainty yummy scrumptious taste of the croissant! Doesn’t taste too oily like the ones at dunkin. The line wasn’t too long when I went around 11am after my class. I also got their decaf mocha almond milk which is good for people like super sensitive to caffeine but need it for midterm week. And almond milk because I’m lactose.
They made the mocha really pretty too except I OD-​Ed on the sugar and honey hahah.
It’s a convenient place to go especially on the way to work, near NYU campus (down 1 – 2 blocks from stern) .
Anyways super cozy place :)

The pure black and tan — get it. I’ve always been a huge fan of La Colombe but this is seriously next level amazing. It’s smooth and lightly sweetened and strong too. Since it’s black coffee with topped off with their draft latte, you don’t even have to add milk or syrup. Definitely recommend.
I also tried the draft latte, which is a great idea, but it kind of tasted like a milkshake. It was much thicker than expected but it was very creamy and already sweetened. It would only be something that I’d order to try.
For the quality of La Colombe coffee, I definitely think it’s a fair price ($ 8 for both). This location is also lovely with wonderful and efficient staff that keeps the line moving. Definitely found a new favorite drink today!

Cute place. The coffee here tastes very different from other coffee shops. Even their ice coffee is excellent. If you like/​love/​speak coffee, this place is a must visit.

La Colombe is my Old Yeller. I love it so much, but I have to shoot it for just a couple of really dumb reasons.
This 3-​star review hurts so good. La Colombe has, hands down, my favorite iced coffee in the city. It’s actually a red-​eye because they put drip coffee and an espresso shot, so it will give you the caffeine you need to survive your upcoming waste-​of-​time conference call, but it’s also really good coffee and tastes fantastic. The pastries, specifically the double chocolate chip cookie and the almond croissant, are mouth watering — I’m literally drooling on my keyboard right now. Gross. Let me clean that up. Hold on.
Thanks.
The atmosphere is inviting, as La Colombe is on a nice street corner with huge floor-​to-​ceiling windows which are great for people watching and natural lighting. While it’s a little hard to find a table sometimes, there are also options for outdoor bench seating or you can head over to Washington Square. And they take credit card, which is super rare for coffee shops in and around the Village.
Here’s the thing, though. The service and the entire process of actually ordering the coffee is absolutely maddening, and I just can’t believe that nothing has been done about it over several years that I’ve been patronizing this business. I would say that 50% of the time that I try to spend my money here, I walk in the door, see the length of the line, kind of laugh to myself out loud because I’m a crazy person, and then walk out and go somewhere else. It’s taken me nearly an hour on a few occasions to get coffee here before, and it rarely takes less than 20 – 30 minutes. Which is absurd.
I think this is a combination of the fact that the place is understaffed — sometimes there is just one poor barista back there trying to manage the immense flow of coffee orders — but a lot of the time it seems like the staff has zero interest in helping move customers along faster. They’ll talk amongst themselves, chat with friends who come into the place, text on their phones, etc., which is all well and good during a lull, but not when there are 40+ people standing around waiting to order. I’ve definitely had a couple excellent baristas and cashiers here, but the vast majority are highly inattentive.
This hurts me more than it hurts you, La Colombe. I hope we can still be friends.
Food/​Coffee: ⁵⁄₅
Value: ⁴⁄₅
Service: ²⁄₅
Atmosphere: ⁵⁄₅

What I like most about La Colombe is that their beans are fair trade which is a huge deal for me.
I really like the setup of the place the bar is in the middle so you can see how the coffee is being made. The décor is very modern and there are lots of people reading and studying and chatting with friends.
I am always a little confused when I come here though.
I really dislike how there is no menu and no prices until you get you order. I asked the barista so many questions and I felt like I held up the line which could have been avoided if they had a menu.
I would really like to think about what I am going to get while I am waiting on their super long line. Not everyone is a coffee connoisseur. You don’t know the price till you get the register but the prices are fair.
Also I am unfamiliar with their sugar and cream station which is a little different from other places. They have different varieties of milk (almond, regular, hemp) and sugars. They place your coffee order on a thin counter where your coffee looks like its going to collapse any second. I felt kinda rushed at this station with all the people behind me.
Sorry for the very picky review La Colombe if you read this.
I ordered a mocha latte which was out of this world– it was smooth, rice, bittersweet and the barista made excellent latte art for me.
In the summer, its super nice with people sitting outside.
In summary– excellent coffee, bit of a confusing ordering experience.
I cant wait to come here again.

Très bel endroit, clientèle assez chic et très bon café. Prix dans la moyenne haute pour NYC.