Are Brookly Heights Coffee Prices Cranked Up?

By on May 6, 2008 11:57 am in Food

A posting on Chowhound reads:

Cranberry’s in Brooklyn Heights charges $3.50 for a large iced coffee! While I love the idea of a neighborhood bakery, that price is completely ridiculous when Connecticut Muffin charges $2.75 for the same thing.
With the coffee prices dropping in the commodity markets, are you still finding your local cuppa joe to be a little pricey?

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  • Herb

    The coffee at Busy Chef is good and not expensive.

  • nabeguy

    If it’s so good, then why do most people walk 50 feet up Henry St. and pay a premium at Cranberry’s?

  • clarknt67

    nabeguy: force of habit?

  • nabeguy

    As good an answer as any. Just one of those mysteries of human nature, I guess.

  • Reality

    the price of coffee at cranberry’s must be turning alot of people off… Its not as busy as it was in years past. I barely ever havre to wait in line anymore.

  • CJP

    Funny you should mention that about Dunkin Donuts. Years and Years and Years ago, like early 90’s, there was a Dunkin’ Donuts briefly (like maybe 6 months) inside a chicken place called Hot Bird that lasted like 6 months in the space that is currently the Vietnamese Restaurant atop Andy’s. Anyone remember that?

    And yes, I know I used “like” like about six times, but after two glasses of wine you’ll have to cut me a break.

    Don’t drink and blog, I know, I know.

  • Beavis

    I remember Hot Bird. I knew the guy who owned it. He tried to sell the concept and franchise system to Pepisco for kajillions, and they took a pass. I believe he ended up just shutting the locations down.

    There’s still a huge old peeling Hot Bird sign on the side of a building in Prospect Heights, near Vanderbilt Avenue. A little bit of early 90s Bklyn history, before the place was overrun.

  • Andrew Porter

    Anyone remember, “Don’t cook tonight, call Chicken Delight!”

    I don’t drink coffee. And I used to buy my English tea at Myers of Keswick on Hudson Street in Manhattan (all things British) but now get it from Sahadi’s on Atlantic Avenue. It’s tea-riffic!!!

  • nabeguy

    Good pre-KFC memory, Andrew. Do you know if Sahadi’s carries Yorkshire’s de-caf? As much as I love MOK, it’s a bit of a haul just to feed my wife’s tea addiction (although the bangers are defintiely worth the trip)

  • Peter

    Cranberry’s is not what it used to be. I moved to the Heights in 92
    and it was amazing now it’s ok. Busy Chefs coffee is not that good.

  • Herb

    @Peter you are wrong. Busy Chef’s coffee is good and fresh. All the people there especially Dan are a credit to the neighborhood.

  • Herb

    Not to mention Dan is a master baker!

  • UWSNYCFEM

    herb –

    how much is dan paying you??

  • Herb

    the question is how much did he pay you?

  • Joe

    oh I get it now Herb. I want to play too

    Busy Chef serves delicous, locally grown, homemade food that isn’t ever frozen. Chef Dan is renowned for his award winning desserts. He is credited with creating such innovative desserts liked the Baked Alaskan, Cherries Jubilee and Bananas Foster.

  • Dan

    Honestly, I prefer Busy Chef coffee to Cranberry’s coffee (that’s the ONLY thing I prefer there). But I noticed this morning they’ve started using styrofoam cups. Not that I’m the most environmentally conscious person out there, but I was pretty surprised (and disappointed) by it – enough to switch back to Cranberry’s.

  • nancy

    Can this not deteriorate into an “I hate Busy Chef” post?
    I remember Hot Bird! I also remember Manhattan Bagels on Montague Street and remember that where Andy’s is now used to be a Cheese Cellar, where they had great fondue.
    Now what they really need on Montague St. is a good old fashioned kosher deli. Sadly, it ain’t gonna happen

  • UWSNYCFEM

    herb…really…that’s the best you could come up with? what are you – 10 years old?

  • Reality

    go jess! Go! Stick it to him!

  • Herb

    Yeah just because Dan dumped you doesn’t give you license to stalk him.

  • http://adsformyself.blogspot.com Tim N.

    What they don’t tell you is that Busy Chef’s coffee is not only hot and fresh, but actually cures cancer and washes infectious diseases right out of your body.

    And if used externally, it will actually let you grow hair in the palm of your hand.

    I’d get there Sunday, where Chef Dan will perform the ritual laying of hands on the beans.

  • UWSNYCFEM

    what are you talking about?

  • nabeguy

    Nancy, I guess you don’t remember Picadelli’s, the last (and only) of the Katz’s-style pastrami joints on Montague. Made a great sandwich and had pickles on every table.
    BTW, Herb, are you smoking herb? Dan’s a master faker, not baker.

  • nancy

    Nabeguy,
    Was that where La Traviata’s is today? I would kill for that again! I remember when La Trav was in the former Gap/Jennifer Convertible/Loft space and called itself Rafaelle’s.

  • nabeguy

    No, it was on the SW corner of Henry and Montague where the real estate office is now. Anybody remember the cashier at Picadelli’s (back when restaurants actually had cashiers)?

  • bornhere

    Here we go :) La Trav was, in the early 80s, Lenny’s. Then, before the whole Gap/Jennifer Convertibles thing, there was that HUGE record (!) store, preceded by a massive Korean produce/deli sort of thing.

  • CJP

    Yeah. I remember a Korean deli where Starbucks is.

  • nancy

    No wait, there was no Korean deli where Jennifers is, there was a record store, but there was also the Italian restaurant. I also miss the Baskin Robbins and the Sedutto ice cream stores!!!

  • bornhere

    The Korean deli was there after Lenny’s and before the record store. Probably around 1984. It was an enormous store and didn’t last long. (The one across Montague was much smaller. And didn’t last long, either.)

  • nazimova

    I remembe the cashier @ Picadelli!! we need a good Kosher Deli on Montague is right! not another Ice cream store or Japanese restaurant pleeez anyone remember the bar @ the Bossert Hotel?? And what was the name of the Diner where Heights Cafe is now?

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