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Sipping Appropriately Pretentious Coffee at The Ace NY's Stumptown

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 20 West 29th Street [map], New York, ny, United States, 10001
September 8, 2009 at 10:18 AM | by | Comments (2)

Did you guys hear the crazy news yet? That The Ace Hotel NYC's Stumptown Coffee opened yesterday, when they said it would? That's insane—something opening on time in New York, especially where The Ace is involved.

Anyways, we swung by on Labor Day for a sip of the stuff, made famous by Stumptown's attention and connection to everything from the coffee growers to the consumers. This is the first location outside of the west coast for the Portland company, who only boast of a handful of locations in Portland and Seattle. Therefore, it's a big deal to coffee connoisseurs on this end of the country.

As you're well aware if you're reading this, we aren't exactly coffee experts; we're hotel experts, but we tried an Americano and a Cappucino for the hell of it and can report that they are pretty tasty. Although we weren't lectured on the heritage of the beans as we had expected, the cafe does have an appropriate level of pretension. We wouldn't make it an outing again, but we would swing by if we happened to be in the area (which isn't often, it's not much of a destination neighborhood).

There is only a bar along the window at which to stand, enjoy your coffee, and stare out at the (not so) lovely activity on 29th Street, but through a door you can enter directly into the moody lobby of The Ace proper. Oh yea and the staff at the door was totally sporting the drab green Converse high-tops. We noticed this of course because we like a little spoonful of designer uniforms to mix in with our snobby hotel coffee.

Note: It's CASH ONLY, unless you are a guest at the hotel and then you can put it on your room charge. Espressos start at $2.50, cappucinos are $3.50, coffee is $2 for a small, $2.50 for a medium and $3.25 for a large. Tea is $3.

For a few more photos of the Stumptown coffeeshop at The Ace NYC, check out the Flickr set.

[Photos: HotelChatter]

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Coffee!

Oh, that photo of the Cappucino made me miss Australia, where good coffee is in abundance. Will have to stop in at Stumptown, pronto.
MsRebecca on September 9, 2009 at 2:57 PM #Permalink

Nice job, Ace

I wish more hotels would raise the bar with their coffee, and dining, etc. It shows that the hotel cares about the entire breadth of the hotel experience. Stumptown is a perfect example of the hotel giving their patrons something really of value, instead of skimping.
Derekh Froude on October 8, 2009 at 2:21 PM #Permalink

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