Whether you’re making your daily commute to work or a weekend trip to New York City, these seven coffee shops are right by your Metro-North train station on the Harlem, Hudson, and New Haven lines. Stop by and get your caffeine fix without missing the train or come early and relax before your trip. You might enjoy some of these shops so much that you’ll want to stop by even if you’re not commuting!
Blue Heron Tea & Coffee
9 Kirby Plz, Mount Kisco; 914.218.3280
Located right across the Mount Kisco Metro-North train station, Blue Heron Tea & Coffee prides itself on a vintage aesthetic inspired by the 1940s. Coffee can be purchased to brew at home or enjoyed in store. Blue Heron has five espresso blends and four drip blends, offering drinks such as cold brew lattes, matcha lattes, cortados, piccolo lattes, and simple espressos. The coffee is single-origin, farm-certified organic, and Fair Trade from Sumatra, Oaxaco in Mexico, Ethiopia Yirgacheffe, Costa Rica, and Colombia. You can also get the daily drip coffee, pour over, or cafe au lait.
Tea is a go-to drink for patrons of Blue Heron as well. Look for black tea such as assam, Nepalese black, and keemum first grade; green tea such as cereal matcha, dragonwell, and jasmine; white tea such as white peony and Silver Needle; and herbal such as hibiscus, peppermint, and rooibos.
The baked goods are made fresh from NYC bakeries such as Sullivan Street Bakery, Hungry Gnome, and Petit Bakery. Or, try a yogurt drink, biscotti, or chocolate candies (including espresso beans for an extra kick).
Bobos Cafe
1 Station Plz, Chappaqua; 914.861.8001
Bobos Cafe is a family-owned business serving coffee and specialty cuisine. While commuters are a portion of the Bobos Cafe customers, owner Glen Bernardi is proud to say the cafe also receives a lot of support from the Chappaqua community when not traveling by train.
With a full-service coffee station, Bobos serves beverages such as lattes, hot and cold brews, chagaccino (an earthier, milder cappuccino made from the superfood chaga mushroom), matcha, and chai. The signature drink is the boccino, a smoothie with espresso, banana, peanut butter, cinnamon, and oat milk. Bobos also has several frozen drinks, such as frozen mocha, matcha, or frozen chai.
The breakfast and lunch menu includes items such as The Number One (bacon, egg, cheese, hash brown, avocado, and creamy sriracha on a croissant) or the Chanco (scrambled eggs, avocado, pico de gallo, pickled jalapenos, cheddar cheese, and scallions in a wrap with cilantro lime crema). The menu has plenty of vegan and gluten-free items as well. About 95% of the menu is gluten-free and/or vegan, Bernardi says.
If you’re not in Chappaqua, you can also find Bobo’s Cafe in Somers, Purchase, Baldwin, and Connecticut, although the Chappaqua location is the place for commuters.
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BXVL Coffeehouse
2 Station Plz, Bronxville; 914.600.8139
BXVL Coffeehouse is a woman-owned small business with its own recipes and specialty drinks. It was started by Charu Rana, a former Wall Street executive and finance professor who left the corporate world to fulfill her dream of opening a coffee shop in her neighborhood.
You can get hot and iced espresso drinks and lattes, as well as frappes. Matcha lattes and chai lattes are served as specialty drinks and available hot and iced. All food items — such as pastries, grab-and-go sandwiches, and fruit popsicles — are from BXVL recipes.
The coffeehouse turns into a speakeasy-style cocktail bar called Whistling Rail from 5:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. The Rail’s creative cocktails, along with wine, beer, and seasonally changing tapas, provides a welcome happy hour right when you step off the train and serves as a welcome respite for late-night commuters.
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Shea Station
1 Pelhamwood Ave, Pelham
Shea Station describes itself as “where coffee culture, kindness, and community meet.” Right at the Pelham Metro-North stop, Shea serves grab-and-go coffee for when you are just about to catch your train. Or, you can stop and relax in the brightly colored, welcoming store.
Drip coffee, as well as espresso-based beverages, cortados, spicy hot chocolate, chai lattes, and assorted teas can all be enjoyed at Shea Station hot or cold. Shea also serves smoothies and cold-pressed juices such as the Go Green with kale, spinach, celery, cucumber, and lemon and the Cure All with apple cider vinegar, orange, and ginger.
The pastries, savory menu, and gluten-free menu vary by the day and include croissants, scones, muffins, cake, overnight oats, and tarts.
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The Bakehouse
2 Depot Plz, Tarrytown; 914.366.7420
The Bakehouse, previously in Ardsley before it closed and reopened in Tarrytown, has traditional coffees alongside inventive drinks in a nostalgic setting that’s right near the Metro-North stop. The Bakehouse has a full coffee bar, where coffee is drip or iced and made with Coffee Labs Witch’s Brew, and espresso drinks made with Coffee Labs Circus Dog. Lattes comes with your choice of milk (whole, skim, half and half, oat, soy, or almond) and options for flavored syrup such as vanilla, hazelnut, or caramel.
The Bakehouse also serves dirty chai, a Dona chai concentrate with milk and a shot of espresso, and cardamom rose lattes, Dona’s cardamom rose concentrate with your choice of milk and a floral, vanilla taste. The Bakehouse has matcha lattes and matcha lemonade made in-house with freshly squeezed lemons for the warmer weather.
As the shop’s name implies, baked goods are big here. All pastries, such as blueberry-lemon scones, are made in-store and from scratch, using real ingredients. The menu also includes breakfast and lunch menus and grab-and-go dinners.
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The Central
300 Railroad Ave, Peekskill; 914.300 Railroad Ave, Peekskill; 914.677.2233
The Central’s story is intertwined with the history of Peekskill’s station, once served by the 20th Century Limited train, which would stop at Peekskill on its route from NYC to Chicago. This train stopped running in 1967 and, eventually, the station went vacant before being reborn in modern times. The goal is for the Peekskill Station to return to the center of the Peekskill experience – including great coffee and nibbles.
This place bills itself as a coffeeshop, lounge, and bistro. Stop by for hot brewed and iced coffee, lattes, espresso macchiatos, mocha lattes, lavender white mochas, or cappuccinos. If you have time to spare, you can relax in the lounge, where you can buy cocktails, beer, or wine starting at noon Tuesdays through Fridays and at 11 a.m. on weekends. The Central also serves brunch and Mediterranean cuisine, such as hummus, tzatziki, and roasted red pepper whipped feta.
The Central is near Bear Mountain State Park, as well as many other historic sites and natural parks, making it an ideal destination for a day trip.
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The Good Witch Coffee Bar
134 Southside Ave, Hastings-on-Hudson; 914.920.4077
The Good Witch Coffee Bar is a modern cafe in a historic brick building that began as a pop-up before becoming a shop, thanks to community support. Today, the coffee spot is right above the Hastings-on-Hudson platform on the Metro-North Railroad’s Hudson line. Treats are baked in small batches every morning, using organic flours and sugars.
You can get icy cold brews and flat whites, but also coffee you won’t have anywhere else, such as the Campfire Latte, silky with steamed milk and a house-made, smoky-sweet syrup for the winter. There’s also the Hojicha Dream, a roasted green tea with a nuttier flavor for the fall.
“Two years ago, we partnered with Tandem Coffee Roasters based in Portland, Maine, to provide our beans, and the response from Rivertown locals since then has been a huge hit,” says owner Joanna Prisco. “While we carry their West End Blues and Time & Temperature blends year-round [and] we regularly bring on single-origin releases to appeal to those seasonal shifts in everyone’s palates. I’m currently loving the Kamwangi PB, a washed roast out of Kenya giving major notes of blackberry and fig.”
In addition to coffee, The Good Witch also serves spicy egg sandwiches and fresh, house-made baked goods such as cheddar-scallion scones and blueberry-turmeric muffins.
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