Grey Dog's Coffee

I love Grey Dog's Coffee, I really do, but I wish they'd lay off the Lilith Fair music in the morning.  It pains me to be reminded before I've had my morning coffee that while I have to go be a day laborer at the cubicle farm, some crunchy nugget gets to make her living warbling about how she moved to Florida when she was eighteen.  Where is the justice?

Since I'm only there for breakfast, I'm only reviewing breakfast.  Banana blueberry bran muffin is righteous and raisin-less.  Their coffee cake is crumby and sweet with a light tang -- what is that, sour cream in there?  Mixed berry scones are buttery and shortcake like, with a juicy berry center that sometimes renders the surrounding dough wet and undercooked.  Their namesake not-acidic, tasty coffee can come with regular soy or vanilla soy, as well as your standard milk varietals.  Heavy traffic and friendly but not-in-a-rush baristas mean you shouldn't plan on grabbing your coffee at 8:25 if you've got a 8:30 meeting (*ahem*).  The egg on croissant is, unfortunately, a firm-cooked omelet-style slab of egg, so if you prefer your egg sandwiches over easy (like I do), you have to special order.  And if you're cool like Mary Karr in The Liar's Club, you can tell them to "flip 'em over and stomp on 'em."

Grey Dog's Coffee
33 Carmine St.
between Bedford & Bleecker St           
212-462-0041

B, D, F, V, A, C, E to West 4th St.