Swiss coffee shop Züri Coffee opened its second NYC location earlier this week on the Upper East Side.
Located at 1443 York Avenue (corner of 77th Street), the branch opened this past Monday, a barista who preferred not to be named told East Side Feed. Züri Coffee’s original location is located at 79th and Broadway on the Upper West Side.
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The red and white of the Swiss flag is omnipresent at this new location, which serves up Viennese speciality coffee Julius Meinl. “Since 1862, we’ve been sourcing, innovating, and delighting customers and businesses with premium coffee, fine tea and more,” Julius Meinl’s website states.
In addition to the premium java, Züri Coffee also serves up a wide selection of desserts and other sweets. Offerings include a raspberry linzer tart, an engraving nut tart, carrot cake, flourless chocolate cake, biberli—a soft gingerbread cookie that is a Swiss specialty—and läckerli, another traditional Swiss hard spice biscuit that originates from the city of Basel.
This author had a whole milk cappuccino and tried a sample of the linzer tart. In this day and age, when it seems like every dessert is too sweet and many coffees try to mask their mediocrity with gimmicks and out-there flavors, the simple goodness of both of these classics stood out. The cappuccino was just the right amount of frothy, and it had an excellent roasted quality to its flavor. The tart, meanwhile, was just that: tart, but in all the best ways.The Züri Coffee location on the UWS has a 4.3 star rating on Yelp.
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“I ordered an iced Americano with a pump of chocolate, which is my usual. The coffee is strong and delicious,” one user wrote earlier this year.
The only issue some customers seem to have is the relatively high price point. (My cappuccino was $5.54 with tax.)
“I’m a fan of the cold brew. It’s very smooth. I’m not a fan of the prices but that’s me just complaining,” another Yelp reviewer wrote.
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“The only issue some customers seem to have is the relatively high price point.” How unusual on the UES!