{"id":129471,"date":"2026-01-23T18:46:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/129471\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T18:46:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:46:45","slug":"crispy-avenue-brings-european-cafe-culture-to-the-grand-central-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/129471\/","title":{"rendered":"Crispy Avenue brings European caf\u00e9 culture to the Grand Central District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">At the counter, an Italian-made La San Marco espresso machine pulls shots using beans from Indiana-based Main Street Roasters. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">In addition to traditional espresso drinks, Crispy Avenue\u2019s coffee menu leans into functional ingredients, offering specialty lattes like the Calm &amp; Focus Latte with rhodiola, lavender, and ube powder; a Mushroom Latte made with lion\u2019s mane, cordyceps, cacao, and hazelnut; and a Brain Boost Latte featuring lion\u2019s mane, reishi, and vanilla.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The tea offerings are designed around energy, digestion, and relaxation. Options include Wake Me Up black tea with rose and orange peel, Peace &amp; Tranquility with lemon balm and holy basil, and Digest the Best made with fennel, ginger, and chamomile.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Ceremonial-grade matcha and chai are also available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Under the glass display case, guests will find an array of house-made desserts and pastries, including creme brulee cheesecake, chocolate mocha mousse cake, napoleons, cannolis, eclairs, and mango mousse parfaits. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The croissant lineup ranges from classic pain au chocolat and plain croissants to ham and cheese, smoked salmon, strawberry, and.cinnamon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the counter, an Italian-made La San Marco espresso machine pulls shots using beans from Indiana-based Main Street&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-129471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-st-pete","9":"tag-st-pete-headlines","10":"tag-st-pete-news","11":"tag-st-petersburg","12":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","13":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}