Sweetleaf Coffee Roasters
Specialty coffee roaster · 4+ locations · Long Island City, Greenpoint
A specialty roaster with four cafés in Long Island City and Greenpoint, one of which doubles as a cocktail bar. Rich Nieto opened it in 2008 expecting the neighborhood to change, and no outside investment is on record.
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Since 2008 Sweetleaf has grown to four cafés and a Greenpoint roastery with no outside investor on record. Its single-origin bags name the farmer, region and altitude behind each coffee, though it names no importer and claims no outside certification. It has little public labor or environmental record either way, and it answers to its founder, Rich Nieto.
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