Bandidas Coffee Company, located on Anderson Avenue, held its grand opening on Sept. 5 and 6, introducing a new coffee spot to Manhattan.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jessica Nelson and Ashley Vicencio, co-owners of Bandidas Coffee Co., said they saw a high volume of customers at the new coffee shop after their soft opening in July.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom the very beginning, we\u2019ve had days with a steady line for hours and have sold through food and drinks faster than we could prepare them,\u201d Vicencio said. \u201cSeeing the community continue to show up for us has made the craziness completely worth it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The shop is western-themed, blended with elements of Hispanic culture and the owners\u2019 personal style. They offer a variety of coffee and food influenced by familiar qualities that the owners grew up with, such as specialty flavored lattes and New York-style bagels. The signature drinks feature house-made delicacies such as a creamy horchata milk base, tres leches milk base, cold foams and spiced Mexican chocolate.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe pull inspiration from our Hispanic culture throughout the brand and menu, but in a way that feels authentic to us rather than trying to fit into one specific box,\u201d Vicencio said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBrewed by Outlaws, Loved by Locals\u201d is more than their tagline \u2014 it describes the recently opened coffee shop\u2019s personality and goals of creating a gathering space for the community.<\/p>\n
Alli Gervais, junior in nursing and a Bandidas Coffee Co. customer, said she enjoyed her experience and the shop\u2019s aesthetics. Gervais said the coffee shop can be described as comforting, delicious and cute.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe bagels are so good, and I like all the different spreads I can get with it,\u201d Gervais said.<\/p>\n
\u200bNelson and Vicencio went from brainstorming ideas for their dream coffee shop to making their vision come to life with a successful grand opening this past weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s something really special about remembering those early conversations Jessica and I had over coffee, writing down ideas for a business that didn\u2019t exist yet, then looking around now and seeing a full coffee shop with people sitting together, ordering drinks we created and enjoying a space we designed with our hands,\u201d Vicencio said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bandidas Coffee Company, located on Anderson Avenue, held its grand opening on Sept. 5 and 6, introducing a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-342591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}