Sweetleaf Coffee Roasters

Beautiful rustic decor, chill relaxing place for a great cup of coffee and a snack. One of my all-time favorite coffee shops.

Love this place. Excellent, carefully crafted espresso. Knowledgeable baristas, approachable owner, quirky decor. All baked goods are baked on premises in LIC. A laptop friendly communal table. What else one would look for in a coffee shop. My coffe shop.

Great spot to stop on your daily commute. Friendly staff and plenty of nice sweets to get your day started. The regulars are always here clacking away on their keyboards.

Nice room in the back to work in.

The cafe is great, the coffee is great. I just wish the baristas would do less socializing behind the counter. They are obnoxiously loud. You might as well take your laptop to a high school cafeteria.

The associates were so sweet but I was not a fan of their coffee nor their iced tea. We grabbed a pack of their brownies too and the taste was just not there.

They take coffee seriously here at Sweetleaf. Withdrawn from the bustle of Long Island City, it's easy to tuck into an armchair here and get lost in your own thoughts. A true sanctuary. Their baked goods are awesome as well!

Very insta-genic cafe. Coffee tastes good. Staff OK. If you just want to grab coffee, it should be fine but if you want to work/study, I'm not sure if it is right place because it's kinda noisy and there are few small tables..

1. It's cash only
2. It's pretty small, so there aren't too many places to set up your laptop
3. It's expensive
4. The week I went, their wifi was giving them so much trouble, and it would stop working NUMEROUS TIMES, which was frustrating.

Their workers are awesome, and fantastic and really helpful.

If you want a great cup of coffee this isn't the place to go. I ordered a pour over and immediately received a look of death from the barista behind the bar. Apparently I had just made her day harder by ordering a pour over, just because she had to do extra work. The coffee wasn't that great, the water was cold. I don't know why Sweetleaf would hire such incompetent people who don't know anything about coffee. After she handed me my pour over she made a snark comment about how nice a person she was for making a pour over, as if she had done a favor to me. Very disappointed with Sweetleaf.

This is the first Sweetleaf location. It's started out tiny, but they've done so well that they've opened more locations. The best coffee in the city, in my opinion. Iced latté is very good, too.