Vassilaros Coffee Company

if you're doing the kind of errand run that ends up in astoria, 41st street in queens has a way of pulling you off whatever route you'd planned. vassilaros coffee company sits at 18-13 41st street, and it's been roasting in new york long enough that the name carries actual weight in the city's coffee history. this isn't a place trying to catch your eye with a renovated interior or a rotating single-origin menu. you come here for the roasting lineage, for the fact that what ends up in your cup has a direct connection to decades of new york coffee production. the reviews back that up at a level that's genuinely hard to argue with. if you're in the area on a weekday morning, that's the window.