Yafa Cafe
Cafe · Sunset Park
4415 4th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11220
Highlights
Yemeni coffee, chicken sandwich, lamb sandwich, brunch
Yemeni coffee, chicken sandwich, lamb sandwich, brunch
"Cousins Ali Suliman and Hakim Sulaimani opened Yafa Cafe in 2019 to spotlight Yemeni coffee culture in Sunset Park. It’s still going strong as a neighborhood cornerstone where the Yemeni-rooted food is just as good as the assortment of coffees. The cousins also started to roast an in-house line of coffee during the pandemic, offering blends and Yemeni single-origin roasts for sale from the shop." - Melissa McCart
"Coffee culture is big in Arab communities, so it’s only fitting that Bridgeview is home to a new Palestinian-owned cafe that serves both a wide variety of coffee and traditional teas — a favorite being sage shai, which is black tea with sage leaves steeped within it — but also food and pastries. The breakfast menu is particularly expansive, with a traditional Palestinian offering of mezze like hummus and pita, plus a Yemeni-style menu that has ful and liver dishes. Yafa Cafe is also a great place to hang out for a bit if you work from home — just keep that sage shai coming." - Nylah Iqbal Muhammad
"Sunset Park-born Yafa Cafe is expanding this year, the first up is an outpost inside the People’s Forum." - Emma Orlow
"A coffee shop known for its Yemeni coffee and community space, with upcoming expansions to Downtown Brooklyn and Midtown." - Emma Orlow
"Yafa Cafe is a coffee shop in Sunset Park, New York, focusing on Yemeni coffee beans. Owned by Hakim Sulaimani, the cafe is known for its $7 cups of complex and unique-tasting Yemeni coffee." - Luke Fortney
