Café Calaca

café calaca takes its coffee seriously, and that reputation on franklin avenue didn't come from nowhere. brooklyn's crown heights stretch of franklin has been shifting for years, pulling in spots that actually have something to say, and this one holds its ground among them. the regulars here aren't casual about it, either. you get the sense that people come back not out of habit but because the bar stays consistently high. 505 franklin is the kind of address that ends up circled in people's notes, passed along quietly between the kind of friends who notice the difference between a place that cares about its sourcing and one that doesn't. start with the espresso on a weekday morning.