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Best cafes and juice bars in New York City

The 10 most notable cafes and juice bars in New York City, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.

  1. 1

    Te Company

    163 W 10th St

    146 m from Christopher Street – Stonewall, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.410, percentile 100 of 289

  2. 2

    NF Bubble Tea

    5901 8th Ave

    210 m from Eighth Avenue station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.405, percentile 99.65 of 289

  3. 3

    Tea Dealers & Ceramics

    90 Hudson St

    135 m from Franklin Street, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.382, percentile 99.31 of 289

  4. 4

    TIGER SUGAR BAKERY 泡芙專賣 (5903 8th Ave)

    5903 8th Ave

    201 m from Eighth Avenue station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.381, percentile 98.96 of 289

  5. 5

    Momochai & Big Bear Bubble Tea

    57-16 Woodside Ave

    314 m from Woodside, rail

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.380, percentile 98.61 of 289

  6. 6

    The Teapsy

    33-17 30th Ave

    223 m from 30th Avenue Station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.374, percentile 98.26 of 289

  7. 7

    Cha-an

    230 E 9th St Fl 2

    127 m from Ninth Street, metro

    listed by BrightQuery and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.370, percentile 97.92 of 289

  8. 8

    Afternoon Tea Nyc & Breakfast At The Parisian Tea Room Nyc

    347 W 36th St

    204 m from 34th Street, metro

    listed by BrightQuery and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.369, percentile 97.57 of 289

  9. 9

    Tsaocaa Tea and BBQ Chicken

    773 59th St

    239 m from Eighth Avenue station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.362, percentile 97.22 of 289

  10. 10

    Lady Mendl's Tea Salon

    56 Irving Pl

    152 m from 18th Street, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.351, percentile 96.88 of 289

How this list is made

Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:

attestation by independent providers
+0.35
record completeness (website, phone, address)
+0.25
Overture existence confidence
+0.20
Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
+0.40
brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
−0.15
same-name chain collision
−0.30

Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.

No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste

Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.

The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.

Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.

Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.

Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).