Southside Coffee — Restaurant in New York

Imagine sitting on a park bench during a crisp fall day, the trees are yellowish orange, and the temperature is just cold enough for you to decide to put on a sweater. Held in your hands are a warm chai latte and a small paper bag that contains a slice of the delicious chocolate chip banana bread. Perfect.

Southside Coffee offers a wide range of food and drinks that are all good. In terms of food there are sandwiches, lunches, and baked goods. The sandwiches are not too unique; they are things like bacon, egg and cheese and other typical breakfast sandwiches. Even though they are not very unique they are flavorful and filling. My only complaint is that there is typically a wait of 10 minutes to get your sandwich which would normally not be problem as a cafe will have an indoor area where you can sit down, but because Southside only does takeout, you have to stand around on the sidewalk with other people who are waiting for their drink or sandwich. The lunches of Southside Coffee I have actually not tried as I usually go there in the morning. Now, for my favorite, the baked goods. The cool thing about Southside Coffees baked goods is that the menu changes every day which is shown on a sign in front of Southside. Now this would sound like a bad thing, but in reality it keeps the menu new and refreshing every single day. You can typically expect muffins, cakes, focaccia, other pastries, and the star of the show: chocolate chip banana bread. Every time I have gone to Southside I have seen chocolate chip banana bread on the menu and I can see why. The banana bread itself is delicious with the texture and flavor being perfect, this is just complimented with the big chocolate chunks randomly inserted inside different parts of the bread which adds the extra sweetness that makes the bread amazing. One other baked good that I might go for is a focaccia. Now onto the drinks. So even though coffee is in Southside Coffees name, I have embarrassingly never tried coffee from there as I am not a very big coffee drinker myself. Something I will sometimes drink when I go to Southside is a chai latte. The chai latte always has the perfect taste and sweetness with some cream on the top which adds more flavor and makes it more fun to drink. Southside also has tea and hot chocolate, both of which I can’t remember having. One complaint about Southside in general is that the prices that I have seen are pretty high compared to other cafes, though I guess this is because of the quality of all the food there.

Now I will talk about the service, location, and some final thoughts. The Southside staff are always nice, as I can’t recount an experience where they haven’t been nice. One thing about Southside that I briefly mentioned before is that it is not a normal cafe with indoor seating and the only seating outdoors is a small bench. This makes it a bad place to go if you want to sit down for a while to read or work on something. Thankfully, there is nearby seating. Right next to Southside is a playground that has benches which makes it a good place to take your food and drinks. If you have a kid you can get some food and eat at the park where they can play. So in conclusion, Southside Coffee is an amazing cafe that I would give five out of...

Southside Coffee used to be our absolute favorite neighborhood spot — our go-to place for morning coffee, breakfast sandwiches for me and my husband, and the little treats our four kids always looked forward to. We’ve loved supporting them over the years and felt like part of the family… until this morning.

My daughter had a long 4-hour gymnastics practice and insisted she couldn’t eat anywhere else but SouthSide coffee shop. We knew the weekend hours were a little later, but we arrived at 7:50am, just 10 minutes before the official 8:00am opening. The tall red-haired cashier was already behind the counter, yet he refused to sell us even a simple slice of banana bread.

We explained politely — we weren’t asking for a sandwich, not even a coffee that needed to be made, just one piece of cake sitting right there on the tray. But instead of a little kindness or understanding, we got coldness and attitude. Unfortunately, we had to rush off to catch a train, so waiting wasn’t an option.

Park Slope is such a friendly, welcoming community. That’s exactly why this interaction felt so out of place. I understand rules are rules — but when you’ve got a loyal family of regulars standing in front of you, sometimes going the extra mile for them is what sets a neighborhood business apart. This morning, sadly, that spirit...

I just wanna say the treats that they have are absolutely delicious. However unfortunately I won’t be buying from here anymore. I don’t know if all the staff are like this, however I had a horrible encounter with a employee & she was being very discriminatory towards me. I didn’t already feel comfortable being that I was the only colored & every time I went to buy something I would get weird looks. Long story short she didn’t accept my 100 bill, but last time I came another employee did. Now today again I passed by & just wanted to ask another employee to see if they were going to say the same thing. The employee mentions “ it usually depends on the the person or the amount of cash we have but we usually do” …. Hearing those words broke my heart honestly. However yeah I would not recommend this place to...