The Chipped Cup

Favorite coffee shop! Love their coffee! The Barista are super friendly and remember you and your coffee order when you come in! Best Late’ Breve hands down!!!

This place is pretty chill, ambience wise. I got a large size chai and it was definitely good, and at 4.75 I didn’t find it terribly overpriced like some reviewers have mentioned. Music is good, albeit oddly loud for a coffee shop.
Wifi wasn’t good when I went. It kept kicking me offline while I was working — I use the internet productivity timer «Toggl» to record my productivity on specific projects within a time frame, and since the internet kicked me off 4 times in 15 min, it took me 35 minutes to complete something that should’ve taken 15 minutes. Since there is a limit to how long you can use the wifi (they give you 120 minutes) I’d think their internet would and should be on point. Alas, I left after an hour, cuz I couldnt get work done.
I’d come back to hang for sure, but I’ll stick to the library for work.

Been here twice this week– lovely coffee spot!
The coffee, bagels, and cookies are all really good, and the employees are friendly and happy to make recommendations.
Nothing snooty about this place, and it has a really nice community feel to it.
Plus, the patio in the back is awesome, and let’s you have your morning coffee in the sun or provides a shaded spot to cool off in the evening.

I love the chipped cup for its cozy atmosphere and wonderful coffee. Great neighborhood place to visit!

Not a lot of variety in the food/​drinks, but overall a really nice and cozy place to study. Even has an outdoor seating area/​patio in a nice shade which makes it a place I’d definitely go back to to study in the future. Free wifi, but you have to order something, and they will give you a slip of paper with a passcode. The wifi lasts for 2 hours, and after that you have to get a new passcode.

I absolutely love the vibe, the space, the service and the coffee.

This place is the best. So cute inside, delicious coffee, great place to work or chat, awesome staff, lovely outdoor patio in back.

The baristas here make a mean Americano; I was wired for the whole day after one small cup.
My roomies and I came here during Snowstorm Jonas instead of being cooped up in our apartment and it was packed! Seems many other people got the same idea as us. When I step into Chipped Cup, I feel like I walking into an eccentric aunt’s attic from the crows on the pipes to the pastel coloring of the walls to the shelves overflowing with books. It adds to the quirky charm of the place and I will definetely come again in the near future.

Unpretentious coffee and lattes — it was my first time here and it’s very cozy. Fair-​trade featured coffee of the month was yum! There is enough space to study, chat, or read.
Their morning roll was tasty — not overly sweet and had a nice, crispy texture to the crust, and a soft, gooey cinnamon sugar base. It was a good compliment to my black coffee.

The vibe in this place is the main reason why I come. It’s always nice and cozy and I love the décor. Today I tried this cute little almond flour and butter teddy and it was a perfect compliment to a coffee.
The staff our always really friendly. This is my go to study place for sure.
It also helps that they have awesome taste in music, and during the summer time the patio is always nice: D
Point is:
— try the cute teddy bear pastry. It was really a delight
— Skip the Belgium hot chocolate. I didn’t think it was great to be honest.

Some of the employees are super weird but I had another set of good coffee experiences. The pan aux raisins is awesome (have them heat it up), as are the chai tea lattes and chocolate ginger molasses cookies.

I love this place. I love their coffee (I am a coffee snob). I love their layout. I love that I can always find a seat. I love that they have sections with bright lighting (YAAAS coffee shops that dont make me go blind!). I love that they have a bathroom. I love that they have a terrace in the back.
The only thing that would make it perfect is if they had more sunlight. But you know, I barely get any sun in my own apartment, so… let’s manage our expectations.
The Chipped Cup is a great place to get some work done, so if you’re planning on coming here to talk smack about your co workers, you should reconsider that. Most everyone is on their laptop or doing something else that is relatively low volume, so you can overhear most conversations. I would not take someone on a first date here for that reason, but if you’re looking to 1) read some music scores, 2) study for the LSATs, 3) pretend to write your dissertation, or 4) anything else that is uncharacteristic of 147^th and Broadway, this is a good place.
I only wish they stayed open a little later… but I’ll deal with it.

The exterior of this place is cute and dainty, slightly hipsterish with a sign out front that lures with you with a catchy quote about their expresso and coffee. (Something along the line of using their exquisite coffee names as one liners… I dig it.)
I love the décor of the interior, with the perfect balance of antique and homey with enough space and wooden tables for dates and groups. The best part about this place is the backyard open space seating offered with lights hanging over the ceiling g and comfy wooden table. The backyard seating gets me excited — imagine all the work you can get done there! It is also quieter than the inside of the coffee shop.
The price is decent for the upper west side, I pay about $ 2 for a cup of coffee and $ 4 for Belgian hot chocolate. The coffee was mediocre, I still prefer stumptown coffee but I do hope to come back and try their expresso.

I’m new to this part of the city, so my first mission was to find a coffee shop I could call my second home… and I’m pretty sure I found it. Located in West Harlem, it’s easy to spot with it’s decorative blue easel outside.
When I first discovered this place, I was amazed at how much table space was available to plug in, chill out, and have a cup of coffee with a friend. They even have an adorable garden terrace out in back.
Better yet, their fair trade coffee isn’t half bad either. For me, I’m a big chi latte fan, so make sure to try theirs. It’s delicious.

This walk down café is soooooo adorable. It gets a bit crowded and is hard to get that corner couch area in the front (I will one day!). Once inside, you’ll have to walk all the way in the back to order your café/​pastry goods, but it’ll definitely be worth the catwalk. The chai is probably my favorite here. The café is on a block strip of other awesome foodie places too. I also heard the owner of the «Handpulled Noodle» which is right next door owns this café.
The walls are decorated with grandma’s vintage barrage of clocks, pictures, and old stuff — it’s great.

So I’ve been coming to this little «Alice in Wonderland» type of coffee house for over two years now but never wrote a review! It’s a great place to have 3 blocks from my house. One thing though avoid Sundays after 1 pm– mad packed! They also offer different social events for the community on Wednesdays — there’s sweet eye Candy, but I wouldn’t suggest trying a pick up because most of them
Are on their laptop working on their post grad or thesis. Great place for a date though!

I’m always on the lookout for study spots, so I’m really glad I found The Chipped Cup. The place has an extremely cozy, relaxed vibe to it, which I love. I stopped by on an early Friday afternoon of a long weekend. There was surprisingly a good number of people working on their laptops but finding a seat wasn’t an issue. I ordered an iced Sweet Matcha Green Tea Lemonade (which I assume is a seasonal drink). It was a little too sour for my liking, but I guess they’re better known for their coffee and baked goods.
In a nutshell,
— Comfortable, quiet atmosphere perfect for studying (they do play music though)
— 120 minutes free wifi with purchase
— Lack of outlets (not so great for those long study marathons)

If there was any compelling reason to check out The Chipped Cup, the answer is in three simple words = fair trade coffee.
As others have noted if you blink you might miss this true gem of a coffee shop in Morningside. If not for the little sign outside, you may not have known this existed (#121 reason why you should Unilocal more). You might be precarious, pause and ask is this a trap?, as you make your way down the steps leading into the coffee shop… the entrance is narrow and some days dimly lit. To my pleasant surprise, a beautiful café is what I found. A new place where I can rest my tucchus as I begrudgingly work on my assignment of the day: uninterrupted, a delicious brew by my side.
This café is so fetch, the walls adorned with whimsical decors and plenty of comfortable seating you’d think you were home (somebody else’s home). There’s also an outdoor patio in the back, perfect for cool summer days. Too bad our fur baby will have to stay home.
The overall vibe is chill, with enough variety in their playlist. The seating plentiful and the wifi is strong with this one.
The atmosphere is comfortable whether your pedantically striking your keyboard, hedonistically scrolling through the latest social media feed, or reclining with your favorite piece of literature on your lap, you’ll certainly have a pleasant experience.
The staff, always amicable, will tolerate your inquest despite your behest to utter such questions: is this vegan, certified organic, and/​or gluten free?
Fret not fellow hipsters, they’ll have something vegan to snack on. The fair trade coffee is quite impressive. I’m a fan of the soy cappuccino, thanks to the great barristas here. Their teas, according to my boo, were good.
Overall I’m quite fond of the Chipped Cup and can see myself spending more of my afternoons here.

C offees, teas, bagels, and croissants here
H as adorable, quaint decorations
I ntimate and warm spot in the winter
P lenty of seats but also…
P lenty of Macbook users: P
E njoyed a decent latte and everything bagel
D idn’t skimp on the cream cheese at all!
C ute little shop down a narrow stairway
U nless you know it, might miss it!
P lanning on returning again soon :]

Finally knocked this one off my bookmarks!
The Chipped Cup is a charming medium sized café with comfortable chairs /​couches /​lounge chairs. Long counter top, lots of outlets, free wifi (with purchase, through Boingo VIA activation code), open mic and comedy nights and more! The music is kept to an appropriate level conducive to conversation, lounging, working, or vegging out and the atmosphere coaxes your inner center of relaxation. Friendly staff, pastries and bagels with vegan tofu cream-​cheese, great coffee and tea selection!

Morgens müde? Nicht, wenn ich mir hier einen «kleinen» Cappuccino hole, dessen Größe eher zu einem europäischen Medium tendiert. Habe mir mehrfach einen dort zu Gemüte geführt und durfte feststellen: warm, aber nicht heiß, also zum sofortigen Genuss geeignet; Schaum vorhanden, aber verglichen zum europäischen Standard lachhaft wenig; kräftige Kaffeesorte, aber keine bittere oder saure Note. Wer Zucker, Süßstoff, Honig oder sonst noch etwas für sein Getränk braucht, wird an einer Selbstbedienungstheke fündig und ein Gläschen Wasser ist ebenfalls jederzeit bereit frei abgefüllt zu werden. Nur den kleinen Keks kostenlos zum Heißgetränk sucht man auch hier vergeblich.

Guter Cappo, jedoch ist der Schaum nicht vorhanden. Zum Schaum, hier in NY kennt man das wohl nicht wie in Europa.