Rivalry of Vine and DeCup (part 2)

                                                                       Photo By: Yong Min Cho

Cafe De Cupping is my personal favorite cafe. This is probably the cafe where I am most present. Cafe De Cupping is located on 150-17 Northern Blvd, Flushing. This cafe is popular but I was always able to find plenty of seats available. 

I've wondered why the cafe name was 'De Cupping,' but that is not important because this cafe is pretty awesome. 

One down side is that WiFi is not free. You have to buy something from the store and on the receipt will be an access code; you connect to the De Cupping WiFi and enter the code where it says to enter the code. Another bad part is that you only get 2 hour WiFi access which is probably enough for many people but there are also a lot of people who stay over 2 hours. 

                                                            Photo By: Yong Min Cho

Honey bread and a heart-shape creme coffee

On the positive side, I very much enjoy the snacks and drinks they offer; I am a sucker who would pay $5.45 for one green-tea frap. In my opinion, they make the best drinks out of every cafe I've been too, yes even Starbucks. They have 2 specialty bread that they make, honey bread and cinnamon honey bread. Which is both 'awesome,' and I hate cinnamon too. It is big enough for three people but there were times where I finished the bread myself and I was not ashamed, though my friends thought it was a bad idea because it is very sweet.

                                                                    Photo By: Yong Min Cho

 Lovely green-tea frap and books

Just like Cafe Vine, Cafe De Cupping has a study friendly environment but during the night times and especially weekends, it may be crowded. But the cafe maintains the quiet environment most of the time. There are plenty of big tables where a party of more than six people can sit together. 

The music they play is similar to Cafe Vine, in which they play all different genres of music but unlike Vine, De Cupping plays more pop than jazz. The workers are nice as well and very friendly. They have a system where they would give you a card that says 'Cafe De Cupping' and every time you buy a drink, they would punch a letter for you and when you punched every letter, you get a free drink. The bad part it is that it would honestly take forever to order 13 drinks costing over 5 dollars each. But my card is 1/4 finished, still got a long way to go. 

This is my favorite cafe. Though Cafe Vine has a better study environment, the food that they offer, especially the green-tea frap, captured my stomach to come to De Cupping rather than Vine. 

Rating: 9.5/10