Five Brooklyn Coffee Bean Shops

If you're a lavazza coffee beans lover and you're looking for a place to shop, then you'll need to try out a coffee bean shop. These shops offer a variety of whole beans from all over the globe. These stores also sell unique trinkets, kitchenware, and other items.

Some of these shops offer subscriptions to their coffee beans. Others sell large quantities of coffee beans at their retail locations.

Porto Rico Importing Co.

Veteran coffee vendor specializing in international brews and a selection of loose teas

The aroma of freshly roasting beans fills the air once you walk into this West Village shop. The shelves are packed with jars and sacks of dark brown beans, with coffee-making equipment, tea accessories and sugar.

Porto Rico was first opened in 1907 Porto Rico was founded by Italian immigrant Patsy Albanese. At the time, Greenwich Village was seeing an large influx of Italian immigrants who established businesses to cater to their culinary requirements. Albanese named the shop after the famous Puerto Rican Coffee she imported and sold - a beverage that was so famous that at the time, even the Pope would drink it.

Today, Porto Rico sells 130 varieties of beans from all over the world at three locations in New York City including their Bleecker Street location, Essex Market and online. The company roasts its own beans and provides wholesale distribution to 350 restaurants in NYC, Brooklyn and Brooklyn.

Peter Longo, current owner and president, grew up in the family bakery located on Bleecker Street, where his father ran Porto Rico. He continues to run the shop in the same manner as his grandfather and father.

Sey Coffee

It is located on Grattan Street in Morgantown, Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood, Sey Coffee is both a roaster and coffee shop. Co-founders Tobin Polk and Lance Schnorenberg, both 33, started roasting in a fourth-floor loft just around the corner from their new shop in 2011 under the name Lofted Coffee (with local clients including Greenpoint's Budin and Soho cart service Peddler).

Sey's emphasis on buying micro-lots--or even whole harvests from single farmers--has earned it the praise of the most discerning New York City coffee aficionados. In 2011, Sey purchased a six-bag micro lot of Danilo Dones Sitio Catucai from Brazil's Espirito-Santo region. The beans were harvested at the peak of ripeness, and then floated to eliminate any defects. They were then dried on the farm following a 36-hour dry fermentation. The result is a cup with hints of berry and melon.

Sey's commitment extends beyond its shop to improve the overall well-being of staff and farmers, commercial as well as its customers. It makes use of biodegradable plastics and composts, preventing waste from landfills and converting it to agents that lower harmful greenhouse gases as well as nourish soil. It also removes gratuities. This lets baristas concentrate on their craft and to earn a living.

La Cabra

La Cabra is a modern specialty coffee business that was founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. They began with a small shop and a team of dedicated employees. Their honest and innovative approach to providing a superior coffee beans shop experience has earned them a loyal following not just in their own town but also around the world.

La Carba has a rigorous process to find their perfect beans, scouring through hundreds of different varieties every year to locate the ones that meet their standards. Then they roast them in a light style and dial the roast to create their desired flavor profile. This results in a brighter taste and clarity.

The East Village store opened last October with a sleek and minimalist design, and has been praised worldwide by coffee enthusiasts for its scrumptious pour-overs and baked goods, which are overseen by head baker Jared Sexton, who's previously worked at Bien Cuit and Dominique Ansel.

The shop is equipped with the La Marzocco modbar, and the plates and cups are designed specifically for Wurtz ceramics in Horsens, the son and father studio. In a recent Q&A session with Atlanta Coffee Shops, General Manager Ian Walla reveals that La Cabra serves approximately 250 different coffees a year, commercial and usually has seven or eight different varieties available at any given time.

The Plant Coffee Roasting Plant Coffee

The Roasting Plant is the only multi-unit retailer of coffee that roasts on-site and brews to order with every cup of coffee being roasted and brewed according to your preferences in less than an hour. It searches countries far and wide for the highest-grade specialty beans, which are directly sourced that provide customers with a choice and high-quality.

Their roaster on site is an automatic fluid bed machine which is different from traditional drum machines found in UK coffee shops. The beans are blown around in a heated box by high-velocity air that keeps the green beans in suspension and allows roasting to happen at a consistent rate when they pass through the machine.

I tried the Sumatran coffee and it was delicious with a an enveloping mouthfeel, dark chocolate aromas were present. The coffee beans subscription began to cool as you sip and subtle aromas of citrus fruit were detected.

The coffee that has been roasted is transported to the Eversys super-automatic brewing systems and you can have your coffee brewed to your specifications in just a few minutes. Customers can pick from a selection of nine single origin choices and a variety of blends.

Parlor Coffee

The company was founded in 2012 at the back of a barbershop with a single-group espresso machine, Parlor Coffee has become a burgeoning roastery whose beans are found at great restaurants, cafes and home brewers in the city. Parlor is dedicated to sourcing the highest-quality beans all over the world, each of which has endured a laborious journey before reaching the roasters.

In their own words according to their own words, they "have an unrelenting love of craft and believe that good coffee should be accessible to everyone." They accomplish this by putting their home-like streetscape that is a mix of residential and commercial. Think compost bins, chalkboards handmade up-cycled products, and a minimalist deco.

They roast their own blends (there were six when I was there) and single-origins, but they also have cuppings on Sundays, which are accessible to the public. Imagine it as an artisanal tasting room in which you can smell and taste the beans, ranging from chocolaty to earthy (one was very tomato-like!). They're off the beaten track, but it's worth the trip.