stumptown coffee roasters

as you may know, i'm officially boycotting starbucks.

even thought there was a branch 2 minutes from the pod hotel

i was determined to stay away and sample some good coffee in new york.

i showed you a couple of days ago, my first decent flat white in manhattan...

http://markwhitfieldphotography.blogspot.com/2010/11/new-york-coffee.html

now let me show you the next place i visited...

it is located in the lobby of the ace hotel and is called stumptown coffee roasters

it's at 18 west 29th street between 5th and broadway

there was a big queue inside, which i took to be a good sign. behind the counter were

four baristas. now i know this is not a great photo but i just wanted to show you

how the baristas looked in action...

they all wore really stylish hats. trilbys, fedoras, pork pies ? i don't know what they

were but they looked so stylish it was untrue. three of them also wore old-fashioned waistcoats, and they all had pencil moustaches. it was like having my coffee made

for me by a team of models. really friendly lads too. not too cool to talk or to be polite.

this is the flat white i had

shshshshrrr... it was off the hook !

here's the view of it as i stood at the bar inside ( there are no seats or tables )

here's the view i had of the interior from where i stood by the window

you can just see the queue snaking around the corner into the hotel lobby

and here's the view behind me. coffee and stuff.

stumptown coffee gets two enthusiastic thumbs ups from me

www.stumptowncoffee.com

www.acehotel.com/newyork