Kaoru M.
Yelp
This is the cafe and bar located within the Distrikt Hotel.
Their coffee and baked goods (croissant, muffins, etc) are tasty and priced very reasonably. ($3 for a 16oz coffee, $2.75 for a croissant, $4 for a muffin). Their espresso based drinks are made fresh on site and are also reasonably priced ($3~$5). For these items, they're probably as good or better than Starbucks. If you only order these items, I'd give them 4 or 5 stars.
On the other hand, their other prepared breakfast items like the breakfast sandwich ($10) are not very good. It looks like what you'd get out of a fridge at a gas station and microwave it yourself. Kind of expensive as well. Their yogurt parfait ($7) is identical to the ones you find inside hospital cafeterias. Edible, but not what you'd expect from a cafe inside a hotel lobby.
I haven't tried their evening foods, but I've gotten a few beers from them in the evening. Canned beers are $10 each and draft beers are $11 each. Even considering the price adjustments for the NYC location and hotel location, that's pretty steep. You could walk a block to the nearby Duane Reade and almost get a 6 pack of beer for the price of 1 draft beer here...