Williamsburg’s first Yemeni coffee shop is now open on Bedford Avenue near the L train. Qahwah House (162 Bedford Ave.) opened with a ribbon cutting ceremony last Sunday, making it the second coffee shop for owner Ibrahim Alhasbani, who also runs a Qahwah House in Dearborn, MI.
Alhasbani moved to the U.S. in 2011 and identifies as an eighth generation coffee maker who always dreamed of owning his own NYC shop.
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Owners from Yemen own many delis that serve good coffee for a buck. You do have to get it in the morn because after that it is 50-50 on quality.
Here in greenpoint there is a Yemen Deli. and dunkin.. right next to each other, the dunkin is $2.50 a cup and the Yemen is $1 with similar quality in the morn.
I don’t get it. It baffles me why somebody would pay that much at dunkin., especially low wage workers who frequent both.