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Updates in the coffeeshop world

cafe amritaIt appears that Morningside Heights coffeeshops took winter break as an opportunity to shake things up.

In the case of Saurin Park Café, a coffee and sandwich shop with free wireless located on the corner of 110th and Frederick Douglass Blvd, the cafe's ownership has changed. It's now called Cafe Amrita and is owned by "some Chinese man" according to the cashier. The new owner is considering small alterations to the menu and prices (read: it will get more expensive) but otherwise the cafe is virtually untouched. The same grad students and Morningside moms are there, and the easy-listening music is still just a little too loud. Hungarian Pastry Shop update after the jump.


The Hungarian Pastry Shop is currently under construction--half of the store is blocked off as workers build a new kitchen. This should all be over by Monday but, in the meantime, you can still sit in the front half of the store and drink coffee in paper cups.


Posted by alexw: #1 · reply · track
January 18, 2008 at 10:49 AM
Strokos has recently renovated, and their pizza zone (P'zone) is currently under construction and therefore closed.

I am slowly wasting away (Jeff Julian syndrome).
Posted by frederick: #2 · reply · track
January 18, 2008 at 10:50 AM
douglass is in morningside?
Posted by in a sense: #3 (in reply to #2) · reply · track
January 18, 2008 at 11:02 AM
yes. its cathedral parkway spillover, though its sort of between below-the-cliff/park harlem and Park West village.
Posted by No,: #4 (in reply to #3) · reply · track
January 18, 2008 at 11:06 AM
it is not.
Posted by Yes: #5 (in reply to #4) · reply · track
January 18, 2008 at 11:34 AM
it is. That area used to be called Manhattan Valley but no one really uses that name anymore. Now it's really the border of Morningside.
Posted by Correct: #6 (in reply to #5) · reply · track
January 18, 2008 at 1:03 PM
it is
Posted by seth: #7 · reply · track
January 18, 2008 at 2:20 PM
note on hungarian

don't take it for granted: since graduating i haven't found anything in the city dark enough for proper studying, moody enough for a good think, and where you can be calmingly neglected while given access to infinite amounts of coffee
Posted by huh?: #8 · reply · track
January 18, 2008 at 3:15 PM
You need darkness in order to do proper studying?
Posted by Rick James: #9 · reply · track
January 18, 2008 at 4:49 PM
Darkness Brothers!
Posted by wifi friends: #10 · reply · track
January 18, 2008 at 5:24 PM
saurin park took away the free wifi, apparently, as i found out after i schlepped all my crap down there and ordered a seven dollar sandwich. also there are NO MORE OUTLETS IN THE PLACE. boo.
Posted by La Negrita: #11 (in reply to #10) · reply · track
January 18, 2008 at 6:10 PM
Is a coffee shop during the day and has free wireless...and it's closer.
Posted by what is the: #12 · reply · track
January 18, 2008 at 10:56 PM
name of the espresso bar at the UN?

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