B Cup Café

07/10/2026

Happy World Cup Season for all who celebrate! If your team is up, come celebrate with a beer and some delicious food. If your team lost, our comforting food and drinks won’t disappoint you 😉

07/05/2026

If you’re melting in the NYC heat, consider this your sign. ☀️

Cool off with one of our many specialized iced drinks or our house-made granola bowl at B Cup. Your new favorite breakfast spot in the East Village, free AC included with every meal!

07/03/2026

The East Village has always been a neighborhood defined by people who came from somewhere else and brought their food with them.

In the late 1800s and early 1900s it was Eastern European Jewish immigrants flooding Alphabet City, opening bakeries and delis that fed an entire generation of new arrivals.

Then it was Puerto Rican and Dominican communities who shaped Loisaida — the stretch of Avenue C that became one of the most culturally rich corners of New York City.

Then artists and musicians and activists who needed cheap rent and found a neighborhood that did not care where you were from as long as you showed up for your neighbors.

What the East Village has always had is a genuine curiosity about culture.

It's a neighborhood that does not just accept immigrant food; it actively seeks it out and builds identity around it.

B Cup Cafe has been here for twenty years serving Mediterranean and Middle Eastern food rooted in that same tradition. Dishes from North Africa, from the Ottoman Empire, from the Sephardic diaspora.

Food that has traveled a long way to get to Avenue B. Come on by, we can't wait to have a meal with you.

204 Avenue B. Open all Memorial Day weekend.

07/03/2026

Somebody in the 13th century figured this out and honestly we owe them everything.

A cookbook from Cairo, written around 1226, contains the earliest known recipe for something resembling hummus. Chickpeas, mashed, with spices. No tahini yet — that comes later — but you can see where it’s going. Over the next few centuries the recipe travels. Tahini gets added. Lemon gets added. Garlic gets added. By the time it reaches the Levant it is basically the dish you know.

Then it emigrates. Jewish communities bring it to New York through the Lower East Side. Lebanese and Syrian families bring their versions. The city absorbs it the way it absorbs everything good, completely and without any acknowledgment that it was ever new.

Hummus is now one of the best-selling grocery items in the United States. The guy writing that Cairo cookbook in 1226 had absolutely no idea.

At B Cup we make ours fresh every morning. Smooth, olive oil finish, the way it’s supposed to be. Available daily at 204 Avenue B.

07/03/2026

Most cafes are morning places. You go before work, you get your coffee, you leave. The transaction is fifteen minutes long and completely forgettable.

An all-day cafe is a different thing entirely.

An all-day cafe earns different versions of you at different points in the same day. The 7:30am version who needs coffee and something real to eat before the city asks too much of you.

The 11am version who has nowhere to be and wants a proper brunch with shakshuka and fresh pita and maybe a glass of something. The 2pm version who just needs to sit somewhere that is not their apartment, with free WiFi and nobody asking for your "deliverables".

This is true cafe culture. All over the world the cafe has always been the center of social life. Friends are made, deals are closed, love is found. It's not a stop on the way somewhere. It is the destination.

B Cup Cafe is open every day from 7:30 in the morning until 5:30 in the afternoon.

Breakfast, brunch, lunch, wine, beer. Come for whatever version of the day you are having.
204 Avenue B. Every day.

07/03/2026

What do you guys think of the new paint job? Come check it out for yourself. Short week, same beautiful vibes. Serving all of our classics and some sweet summer specials.

204 Avenue B.

07/03/2026

Summer in New York City has exactly one requirement: find a table outside and stay there for as long as possible.

Not a coffee cup on a stoop. Not a to-go bag on a bench. A real table, real food, and somewhere that doesn't make you feel rushed the second you sit down. B Cup Cafe has outdoor seating on Avenue B, a full menu all morning and afternoon, and wine and beer when the day calls for it.

Shakes. Coffee. Granola. Lox. Salad. Wine. Beer. Shakshuka. Pita. Burekas. Hummus. Everything is made fresh every day. Come check us out!!!

204 Avenue B. Open daily 7:30am to 5:30pm.

07/03/2026

First time at B Cup? Here's exactly what you order.

Start with the cauliflower shawarma. Made fresh every morning, and there is a difference you will taste immediately. The outside gets that char and crisp from the roasting, the spices are deeply infused, and it hits completely differently than anything you've had from a counter spot. Get it with a side of hummus on a fresh pita. Order a coffee. Sit outside if there's a seat available.

Shawarma traces its roots to the Ottoman Empire, a slow-roasting technique that spread across the Middle East and became one of the most recognizable street foods in the world. The cauliflower version is rooted in the same tradition, the same spice profile, the same technique, just built around a vegetable that holds up to that kind of heat better than most. The version most Americans know has been stripped down. The version we make is the real thing.

The full menu runs all day from 7:30 to 5:30.

Come back for the rest on the second visit.

204 Avenue B, East Village. Open daily.

07/02/2026

Come beat this crazy NYC heat with fresh coffee, smoothies, specialty drinks, delicious breakfast, brunch, and lunch. We’ve got the AC on and the food waiting for you!

06/09/2026

Does it get much better?

The chicken schnitzel sandwich at B Cup Cafe has a longer history than you might expect from something you can order for lunch on Avenue B.

Schnitzel begins in Vienna. The Wiener Schnitzel, a thin cutlet of veal pounded flat, breaded, and pan-fried, became one of the defining dishes of Austro-Hungarian cuisine in the 19th century. Simple, satisfying, endlessly replicable.

When Ashkenazi Jewish families fled Central Europe in the early 20th century, first from poverty and then from the catastrophe of the 1930s and 40s, many of them brought schnitzel with them all over the world. Veal was expensive and not always available. Chicken was the practical substitute.

Over decades, chicken schnitzel became embedded in food culture in a way the original Austrian version never anticipated.

Every family has a version. Street food vendors figured out that schnitzel in a pita, with pickles, with tehina, with amba sauce, was one of the great sandwiches the world had accidentally produced.

That is the sandwich B Cup Cafe is serving at 204 Avenue B. Chicken schnitzel in fresh pita. Crispy, messy, and the product of about 150 years of culinary migration.

Tag someone who owes you lunch.
204 Avenue B. Open daily 7:30am to 5:30pm.

06/09/2026

Does it really get much better?

The chicken schnitzel sandwich at B Cup Cafe has a longer history than you might expect from something you can order for lunch on Avenue B.

Schnitzel begins in Vienna. The Wiener Schnitzel, a thin cutlet of veal pounded flat, breaded, and pan-fried, became one of the defining dishes of Austro-Hungarian cuisine in the 19th century. Simple, satisfying, endlessly replicable.

When Ashkenazi Jewish families fled Central Europe in the early 20th century, first from poverty and then from the catastrophe of the 1930s and 40s, many of them brought schnitzel with them all over the world. Veal was expensive and not always available. Chicken was the practical substitute.

Over decades, chicken schnitzel became embedded in food culture in a way the original Austrian version never anticipated.

Every family has a version. Street food vendors figured out that schnitzel in a pita, with pickles, with tehina, with amba sauce, was one of the great sandwiches the world had accidentally produced.

That is the sandwich B Cup Cafe is serving at 204 Avenue B. Chicken schnitzel in fresh pita. Crispy, messy, and the product of about 150 years of culinary migration.

Tag someone who owes you lunch.
204 Avenue B. Open daily 7:30am to 5:30pm.

05/18/2026

There is something you notice when you spend time in Greece, or Turkey, or Lebanon, or any country where Mediterranean culture runs deep. People sit outside for hours at a time. Not because they have nothing else to do. Because sitting is the point.

The cafe in Mediterranean culture is not a place you stop at on your way somewhere else. It is the destination. You order a coffee and you are there for two hours. You talk, you watch the street, you feel like a person and not just a consumer moving through a transaction. This is not boredom. It is a deeply held cultural value; that time spent with people, in a place, over food, is time well spent.

The East Village has always understood this. It has always been a neighborhood where people come to relax and slow down. Artists who needed somewhere to work. Immigrants who needed somewhere that felt like home. Locals who needed a third place that was not their apartment and not their office.

B Cup Cafe has been that place on Avenue B for twenty years. Come sit with us, and stay as long as you want.

05/16/2026

05/16/2026

If you're looking for the best Mediterranean food in New York City, pay attention. There's a cafe that has been on Avenue B in the East Village for twenty years. Twenty years in New York City is not an accident.

That does not happen unless the food is real, the space feels like somewhere you actually want to be, and the neighborhood decides it belongs there. This is not a trendy spot that opened last year and will be gone by next summer. This is a place that has survived two decades of New York City rents, changing neighborhoods, and every food trend that has come and gone since the early 2000s.

The menu is rooted in Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cooking; shakshuka, burekas, hummus, schnitzel, kebab. Dishes that have been feeding people for centuries, made fresh every morning at 204 Avenue B. If you have not been, this is the time!

05/16/2026

This is the East Village at its best. A neighborhood that’s always had a heartbeat—in its streets, its people, its culture—and on Saturdays, you can feel it right here at B Cup.

Live jazz every weekend, filling the cafe with something that can’t be bottled or replicated. Come join a room full of people who chose to slow down together. Come in solo, bring a friend, bring the whole crew. Grab a coffee, grab a bureka, and stay a while.

This is your neighborhood cafe, and Saturdays are yours. 🎷✨☕

12/04/2025

Flaky, golden, handmade with love—this is how we make our bureka.

12/03/2025

If you’re hungry… this might make it worse 😉

12/02/2025

Fresh, warm, and impossibly fluffy—our pita is a hug in bread form.

12/01/2025

Morning comfort starts here—our shakshuka made fresh and vibrant to satisfy your cravings.