CASA NEXT DOOR
Coffee shop · West Village ·
Coffee, pastries, and curated books in a friendly atmosphere
Coffee, pastries, and curated books in a friendly atmosphere
"An offshoot of Casa Magazines that has expanded into books, offering a cozy spot for coffee and pastries." - Edward Barsamian
"An expansion from long-running Casa Magazines: a coffee shop with pastries that commemorates three decades of the magazine-focused shop and offers a neighborhood coffee-and-pastry program adjacent to the original retail storefront." - Emma Orlow
"Opened as an expansion to commemorate the three-decade anniversary of the long-running magazine shop, this coffee shop offers coffee and pastries at 22 Eighth Avenue and West 12th Street and serves as the retail expansion tied to the original magazine-focused operation." - Emma Orlow
"A contemporary Japanese restaurant launched by the Wegmans company that was moved out from inside the grocery store into its own space to provide a dedicated entrance and parking; a Manhattan location is set to open on April 30. The menu is built around a sushi counter and a custom-built robata grill with wholesale access to very fresh seafood from Japan, New Zealand, and Norway, yielding offerings such as chu-toro tartare, oysters and caviar, chirashi, king-crab legs, and a koji-marinated rib eye. The kitchen team—led by veteran Wegmans chef John Emerson alongside Oliver Lange and Kazuya Matsuoka—leverages company-scale supply chains (including relationships at Tokyo’s Toyosu market and a long-standing New Zealand salmon vendor) and is experimenting with koji sourced from Kyoto to deepen umami and tenderness. The dining room contrasts the grocery-store fluorescence with tall windows, huge mirrored oceanic panels, brushed-brass lighting, white tablecloths, velvet banquettes, and artificial live oaks, producing a kind of hotel-lobby, soft-suburban grandeur even in a former big-box location." - Anna Hezel
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