New York’s Best Coffee House Hybrids

Obviously, we’re no surfers. Memories of flipping violently from a board on a 2001 trip to Sydney and being stung on the face by a jellyfish has put a stop to this sport from our end. However, stepping into Lost Weekend is the closest we’ve come to jumping back on the board-wagon again. As light and breezy as a Bondi shoreline, this surf wear/surfboard/surf literature retail store has everything you could need to restart that wavy fire, even on a cold February day in inner-city New York. In fact, when we went in and chatted to barista and world-renowned beard Adam Santos-Coy, he told us the owner had been on the waves only the day before (this was just a day after a giant snow storm. The commitment!). Aside from the incredibly cool surfing wares on offer in the shop, Lost Weekend has a refreshingly relaxed cafe in its wake too (see what I did there?). Santos-Coy, who trained at Bluestone Lane, told us he thinks the coffee scene in New York has become a little pretentious of late. ‘I want to help make coffee less intimidating’ He told us, pouring frothy milk into a cup behind that gigantean beard.