La Colombe Café Makes It To Manhattan

What do you do after you’ve perfected the coffee beans preferred by the country’s most successful chefs (Daniel Boulud, Alain Ducasse, Eric Ripert, Jean-Georges Vongerichten)?

After you’ve opened a café in your hometown (Philly) that wins Food & Wine Magazine’s Top Coffee Bar award?

If you’re Todd Carmichael and Jean-Philippe “JP” Iberti, owners of La Colombe Torrefaction, you open a fine little café on Church Street in Tribeca.

Coffee geeks mark your calendar. Starting today, La Colombe’s silky cappuccinos with hints of caramel will be served. True to the owners’ philosophy, the café will focus solely on serving excellent coffee and cappuccinos, with pastries from Petrossian.

Vintage Faema model E61 espresso machines (circa 1964) are the centerpieces of the warm, coffee-toned shop. And the imported African Bubinga wood used throughout are a reminder of the owners’ passion for the world’s finest sourced beans, and supporting the countries they came from. Nothing is “out of the box”, from each table with its unique shape, to the bar which is long and lean and meant for human interaction.

Todd adds, “The point was to make a place where one can step outside the marketing/commerce whirlpool and simply have the best coffee attainable – made by people who really know what they’re doing.”

We’ll drink to that.


La Colombe Café
319 Church Street (at Lispenard Street)
Tel: (212) 343-1515
lacolombe.com/pleasure