Coffee by Day, Cocktails by Night at New York’s Patent Pending
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Business in the front, party in the back isn't just relegated to a certain polarizing hairstyle. At New York's Patent Pending, the coffee shop-by-day, speakeasy-by-night concept works double duty in its design.
A narrow, subterranean space; flickering candlelight; glass bottles arranged in rows, their contents selectively and precisely measured and poured to generate the proper reaction. You could be in a mad scientist’s underground lab, or you could be at Patent Pending, New York’s latest speakeasy.
The modern space is an experiment of sorts, too, performing double duty in operating from early morning to late night seven days a week. The bar isn’t open for business during the day; rather, it’s fronted by a coffee shop, simply called “Patent”. This cafe features a rotating cast of single-origin coffees and a pastry case with contents from Pain d’Avignon. Its wares are housed in a light-filled, standing-room only space of wood and marble.
The new space on Manhattan’s West 27th Street is connected via a basement hallway to the adjacent Radio Wave building, so named because of the work of one of its former tenants, Nikola Tesla. The Serbian-born inventor, engineer, physicist, a
