Davelle
Japanese restaurant · Lower East Side ·
Japanese cafe serving toasts, pastas, curry, and coffee
Japanese cafe serving toasts, pastas, curry, and coffee
"“This Japanese coffee shop is phenomenal. They have incredible toasts, sweet and savory. It's some of the most aesthetically pleasing toast. Davelle has great coffee, good teas, and now they have a little takeout window. They have these little rice balls, like I had every day when I was in Japan—just rice and seaweed and a little bit of salmon. If you can go on a quiet day and get a seat, especially late morning, it’s the spot to be. And if it’s packed, you go over to Good Thanks and that’s also a winner.”" - molly fitzpatrick
"This stylish but sparse Japanese cafe serves breakfast toasts. Choose from pretty options like honey lemon, black sesame and cream cheese, ogura (sweet red bean with butter) and cheese curry." - Eater Staff
"This Japanese daytime cafe on Suffolk has first come, first served seats from 9am to 4pm on weekdays and 10am to 5pm for brunch on weekends. In addition to dishes like toasts, mentai spaghetti, and shabu shabu pork, Davelle is selling very gift-worthy ceramics and homegoods inside of their store every day." - hannah albertine
"Davelle looks like a tiny railroad apartment that was converted into a Japanese restaurant overnight. It’s a charming space with brick walls and chipped white paint, and when you walk inside you’ll see a few big metal contraptions sitting on the bar. These are filled with different types of oden, a Japanese street food cooked in broth that makes up most of the menu (although you do have some other options, like a rich pork curry and a pasta with enough uni to make you feel like a sea otter). If you can get one of the few tables up front, this is a great spot to impress someone who’d rather be in Japan." - bryan kim, matt tervooren
"When we first walked into Davelle, we were a little confused. With its half-burned candles and brick walls decorated with flowers, this small Japanese spot looks like the studio apartment of a person who has seven cats and wears an amulet. But as we drank pet-nats and ate uni-loaded spaghetti while listening to the chef greet everyone who walked in the door, we realized we had found one of those elusive “hidden gems” - a spot that’s well worth a trip from anywhere in the city, even if the people upstairs might never even know it existed." - hannah albertine, bryan kim, katherine lewin, hillary reinsberg, matt tervooren
