A serious plague has fallen upon the city's legion's of coffee snobs: pour-over coffee—you know, the fancy Japanese-style stuff (here's Oliver Strand waxing poetic about it)—takes too long to make. The average cup of painstakingly dripped liquid can take three minutes to fill, which is approximately two minutes longer than perpetually frazzled New Yorkers can wait. So, basically, every foodster blowhard in the city is freaking out over what to do. HELP!
"New Yorkers want their coffee to go. They're not going to wait," Mikki Adamson, a manager at Joe the Art of Coffee told DNAinfo. Joe used to offer pour-over coffee all morning, but it slowed the line down so much they had to enact a no-pour-over-before-noon policy. "Sometimes I'm running and I want a cup of coffee and someone orders something fancy," griped one customer at O Cafe in Greenwich Village. "It bothers me I have to wait a bit." Preach it, random person!
But some coffee aficionados won't back down, refusing to lower their standards to appeal to the uncultured masses: Michael Little spent months commuting to Williamsburg for the pour-over coffee at Blue Bottle before deciding "there's got to be a better way" and opening his own store, Lost Weekend, in the Lower East Side. He only serves pour-over coffee and insistes that the practice won't scare off customers: "I was confident people here were going to transition into knowing when they come they can put in their order, can check their phones, they can multitask while they're waiting for a cup of coffee," he says. That may be true, but we prefer to check our phones while walking and drinking and texting all at once, thanks.
