La Cabra
A Danish coffee roaster that bakes its own pastry, at 152 Second Avenue, and Dominique Roy orders a cappuccino.
Why go
La Cabra roasts in Aarhus and runs three doors in New York, and this is the East Village one.1 Roy's pitch is short and it is about the operator rather than the cup: They're a bakery and a coffee roaster from Denmark, and they really care about coffee.
2 The room seats a lot of people and reads Scandinavian, which is the company's own design brief.
Order this / avoid
- Order: a cappuccino, which is Roy's order. Nobody quoted here names a coffee origin or a pastry, so the rest is a walk-in decision.
- Avoid: the wrong door. SoHo at 284 Lafayette Street runs two hours later, to 8pm, and there is a third at 1329 Willoughby Avenue in Brooklyn.
What locals & experts say
- Dominique Roy (Eleven Madison Park), 2026-08:
I think La Cabra in the East Village is great.
2 He treats good coffee as a weekend thing rather than a daily habit, which is worth reading as the weight of the pick. - Roy on who they are:
They're a bakery and a coffee roaster from Denmark, and they really care about coffee.
No critic quoted here has written about the cup.2
Good to know
- Timing: 7am to 6pm Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm Saturday and Sunday.
- Booking: walk-in.
Verdict
could-visit — A Danish roaster that bakes its own pastry, and the chef de cuisine at Eleven Madison Park picks it as the coffee he goes out of his way for. That is one voice and no dish, so call it a good cup on Second Avenue rather than a destination. The useful fact is which door: the East Village, 152 2nd Ave, 7am to 6pm, and there are two other New York addresses under the same name.