Oren's Daily Roast

if you're passing through midtown on a weekday with a gap between meetings, 42nd street gives you very few reasons to slow down. oren's daily roast, sitting at the east end near grand central, is one of the actual ones. it's not trying to be a refuge from the city so much as a working part of it, which suits the energy of that block. you're not going to linger over a long black here while the afternoon dissolves, but that's not the point. the roasting operation behind the retail side means the coffee is sourced and turned around with real attention, not bought off a commodity list. come in before 9am, get your cortado, and get moving.