Kos Kaffe — Restaurant in New York

Key highlights about our recent visit to this cafe. 3 ladies are making coffee. One staff in the kitchen. After 30 minutes of waiting for a toast and sandwich, I asked one of the ladies how soon we could get our order. Her first answer was: I don't know. Then she said " your order is getting ready. In 7 minutes we got our food. Coffee and food as expected for the price paid. Just as expected. The cafeteria has a policy posted on the table that using laptops is prohibited from 12-4pm (if not mistaken). We got there at 1pm. I found at least 8 people using laptops and abusing tables. I think the ladies could step outside the counter and remind the customers of their policy. But they were laughing and talking all the time and just making coffee.  One more thing to mention. One of the ladies got her sandwich for lunch 5 minutes after us. A month ago, we were buying coffee in this shop and witnessed how one worker came to work, said hello to her colleagues, took her jacket off, picked up plates and took them to the customer table. Unfortunately, she didn't wash her hands before she had started to work.  There are a lot of other coffee shops with real professionals who are just...

Overall fantastic place. Great drip coffee from house roasted beans, delicious salads and sandwiches, mouth-watering banana bread.

The staff are friendly and gladly answer any questions about the coffee or food.

The atmosphere is inviting with a corner location, huge plate glass windows, lots of seating, including fishbowl stools overlooking the 5th Ave sidewalk. Comfortable outdoor seating in warmer weather, on the eastern side of the street with morning to midday shade.

Yes, the wait time for food on weekend mornings can be up to 30 minutes, but the staff give you a heads up on the estimated time. So not a place to go if you're in a rush, but a fantastic place to go if want to linger at a table and enjoy a leisurely coffee and brunch.

I happened to meet the owner one day as she was sitting outside with a friend and a group of girls. It's telling to see someone outside of their work role, and she was delightful and skillful with this energetic...

I entered the cafe on a Saturday to have a coffee while I did some work on my computer. But the staff was unfriendly, the latte was ok and their limits on computer usage were a bit much (i.e., you could only use your computer in specific sections of the cafe). However, even when I abided by their computer rules I discovered that most of the electrical outlets didn't work. The only one that did was already being used by 4 people huddled within a space way too close for comfort. That's a hell of a coincidence or they really don't want people writing in the coffee shop. I'd now like to ask what else does one do in a coffee shop but read and/or work on a computer? If they don't like that then they're in the wrong business.

So I left and went to Konditori on Sackett and 5th Ave. The staff is nice, the coffee is good and the outlets work, right down to the one way in the back of shop that looks so old that you'd think it was dead but nope,...