Bin 620

Great hidden lunch treasure on The Avenue! Must have the Chicken Souvlacki with homemade tzatziki sauce. It is fabulous. Great price for lunch menu. Try the coffee too. Very cozy place. Wine and beer options too.

Unexpected, Cute coffee shop inside Holiday Inn. Surprised it was dead. Lots of hot drink options as well as wine. Nice ambiance. I don’t think people know about it!

This is a pretty nice, lowkey coffeeshop that also serves wines (and has a huge NY-​centered wine list) with happy hour from 4−7pm Monday thru Friday where you can enjoy NY-​state wines for half off.
It’s a nice place to lounge around with plenty of comfortable chairs AND footrests! You can just plop down on a super comfy chair, put your foot up on the rest… and kick back in relaxation heaven. The tea and coffee is standard, nothing special. They roast Seattle’s best and have an OK selection of teas.
The employees here were awesome — just kicking back and having a good time.
Haven’t tried any of the food, but it gets my seal of approval for having fast wifi and a nice staff. Totally hidden inside the Holiday Inn, so you don’t see many people wander in here. Nice outside patio. Only downside is a limited amount of charging ports, so come with your laptop fully charged!

Have you ever stumbled across one of those neighborhood gems and DIDN’T want to tell anyone about it?
This is one of those places. For over a week now, I have sat on this review not because the café isn’t WORTH a review, but because then people would know about it and that might change the experience.
It’s a quiet haven with good coffee, tasty desserts, decent lunches, and very nice, appreciative staff. Want to buy a hot tea and lounge around reading for several hours? The barista is happy to have you. Jessica (mornings) is the perfect blend of welcoming but not overly chatty.
If you want something more than what is on the Café menu, Grill 620 will serve food to the Café for your convenience.

So Bin 620 is an afterthought of a café somehow smushed, squashed, squeezed between what I am sure must be yet another terrible hotel restaurant inside a Holiday Inn Express and a big olé parking lot. So Bin 620 is thoroughly corporate and rife with trite offerings: Seattle’s Best coffee, Odwalla smoothies, random fruits and desserts. Accordingly, the décor is generic: a long bar, individual bar tables with stools, and a bunch of couches around a faux fireplace. Oh boy. And it’s dim, and dark, and quiet. And they play Kenny G-​style elevator muzak. And there aren’t any people there. Corporate muck. Bah…
… but wait a minute. That doesn’t sound half bad. Seattle’s Best coffee ain’t craft… but it’s not bad, either. I like sitting at bar stools. I suppose muzak is at least an improvement over the Taylor Swift-​ridden Star 102.5 or Grizzly Bear-​infested indie rock mess most places play. Wait just a minute…
Take two. So Bin 620 is an afterthought of a café somehow smushed between the terrible hotel restaurant inside a Holiday Inn Express and a big olé parking lot. And it’s corporate and generic in every way… except that it’s good. And by good, I mean that everything has been engineered to please. Clean layout, quiet music, solid if not exceptional offerings, efficient and unobtrusive customer service, an electrical outlet or two by every seat. And did I mention that coffee seems to be half off between 1.00 and 4.00 PM every day? And did I mention that they have a wiiiide selection of wines, almost all of which are sourced from New York State, the Empire State, our state?
Shoot, I’m getting enthusiastic about a spot owned by a big box business. But wouldn’t you be, too? Especially if I told you that the place was almost empty every day, far from the noisy, distracting herkyjerk of Spot or Starbucks? If you had a chance for a Starbucks all to yourself, dear Unilocalers, wouldn’t you snap it up lickety split?
But the best part of Bin 620 is that for all of its shoehorned location and its obvious corporate design, it is ever so obliquely extending its middle finger to the overlords that rule it. See, to enter and exit Bin 620, you never even need to enter the Holiday Inn Express. It’s named 620 because it’s right at 620 Delaware, because you can walk right up Delaware, right up the steps and into this gem of a café.
3 stars for coffee
4 stars for wine selection
4.5 stars for delicious cake (locally catered, not housemade)
4 stars for service
4 stars for atmosphere
5 stars for intangibles
4 stars overall