Bluestone Lane
“Very friendly staff live the location inside a chapel of the church such a unique and flattering idea for a breakfast restaurant.”
“We shared the banana bread with ricotta and nuts and the avocado smash with a poached egg.”
“Delicious food, amazing coffee, and phenomenal location right next to Central Park.”
Bluestone Lane
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Accepts Apple Pay: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Outdoor Seating: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
PokéStop Nearby: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
8 reviews
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Personally I am fan but can see how people could take issue with Bluestone. The coffee, pastries and avocado toast (only things I've tried) are spot on. The service is pleasant if you are nice, but they definitely have some baristas that have an edge to them. That said if you are nice they are nice. The restaurant is a little annex to the church…it is a unique use of space (awesome really).
It is a cool spot and I will be back.
I came here with a group from school. It is right across the street from Central Park and by all of the museums. The food choices are okay, but it wasn't worth it to pay $14 for a salad. Seating is limited and the inside is table service, so we took our food and ate it across in the park. I guess this place is better if you don't want to eat a hot dog from a vendor.
This is my 4th Bluestone Lane location, and my experience here once again goes to show the consistency of its quality throughout its stores! The outdoor seating is perfect for people watching or just enjoying the first glimpses of spring, and the indoor seating equally gets a lovely amount of natural light.
In terms of the food, they've recently updated their menus, so now when you order the Brekkie Board, you're not limited to the yogurt pot but you can choose from oats or a smoothie bowl. I got the latter, and I loved how it wasn't too sweet. They don't explicitly state it on their menu, but the smoothie bowl's base was made from a blend of avocado, spinach and almond milk. The avocado toast portion of the Brekkie Board was delicious as usual – basically an amazing weekend brunch here!
BEST COFFEE SHOP UES
Gorgeous location. Delicious coffee and great quality food. I came in around 8am on a Wednesday. There were a few people out front in the al fresco area but it was empty inside. By 10am this place was packed. When I walked by at 2pm there was a line and understandably so. If I had to say the two top things about this location they would be: gorgeous interior and amazing customer service.
This location is owned and run by Aussies so it's a nice switch in culture from fast paced NYC to chill Australians. Great culture in this location along with quality and service.
BEST (if not only) coffee shop on the UES!
LOCATION:
Excellent location. Across the street from Cooper Hewitt museum and the Central Park. Very nice, open cafe and nice atmosphere during the day with a lot of fresh air and greens.
SERVICE:
Simply not good enough. Trying to pay attention to customers but fails. Before ordering we got served an Orange juice and a dish that we didn't order. Ended up being the order from the person sitting next to us and even that order was wrong.
Asked for water 3 times so I decided to refill the water at the front door myself. Got the water from the waitress when we paid and ready to leave. Seriously? My mom can juggle 5 plates at once and manages 6 tables at the same time. If you can't do it just find another job or practice.
FOOD/PRICE:
My Avocado Smash $12 (toast with avocado, tomato etc on it) was delicious. My friend ordered Viet Banh Mi $14. Toast for $12? Wow you gotta be kidding me. And her Banh Mi, you can get double the size at a vietnamese authentic place for $3 and that's standard.
Food is great but if you walk out still hungry and broke… not sure about this. I can't believe people are willing to pay so much for a piece of nothing.
BLUESTONE LANE APP $5 discount:
NOPE don't use it. I downloaded it wanting to save $5. App only works with a linked credit/debit card. And $5 only applies for take out, to go.
Adorable with a great location. Spotty service. I'm not sure if we had a designated server, some gals were super attentive while others would offer things they never brought. Odd, but overall friendly. The toast was actually really filling. It's a little pricey, but the location makes it worth it. I dig it.
LOVE Bluestone Lane. It's very trendy and easily photograph-able (as you can tell by the other reviews). It is right by Central Park, so this location is in a great area.
The food was AMAZING! Came to us very quickly.
I had a delicious over-priced salted caramel dessert, but unfortunately I did not photograph it.
There is indoor and outdoor seating offered.
The presentation of the food and restaurant was definitely a 10/10.
I'll be returning when I'm back in NY! 🙂
Avocado Smash with a poached egg – well, well well… this toast was nothing like what other experienced. Our AS toast was not seasoned with anything, very bland. Feta cheese crumbles should be salty and tangy but didn't help these toasts.
I checked the menu again to see what was missing when I back home. Them I found out that it should have had a tangy-creamy Tahini sauce (lemon juice, salt and garlic. Those flavors and salt would definitely be enhancing the toast. Our toasts (another toast with bacon was the same somehow, even with salty bacon) were not like the likes but bland, but they were beautiful. The perfectly poached egg didn't saved this toast obviously. Not knowing missing key ingredients, I asked our nice waiter to get some fresh lemon slices, olive oil, and salt & pepper. The salt and pepper were on the counter. Definitely lemon brighten the flavor but table salt and pepper did not helped much. This salt, for this toast, needed to be corse salt and black pepper needed to be fresh and not stale. The table salt made everything just too salty, not good. Olive oil over it disguises a little but not worth $32 with a cappuccino (after tax and tip) for lunch – our bill was $64.
This amazing space is small but with neo-Gothic style beauty. I think it is a part of the historic Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest. But the location is perfect when visiting Cooper Hewitt Museum, Guggenheim Museum, or National Academy Museum. Also, walk up one block on Fifth Avenue and there is a gorgeous Châteauesque style house, the Felix M. Warburg House, that is the Jewish Museum.