Stir Cafe
“I tried to make it to the Financial District and to see the World Trade Center and Wall Street.”
“Some of the harsher reviews here are a little ridiculous–this is a cafeteria-style lunch counter, not high cuisine.”
“Seating in the rear of the restaurant along with a nice salad bar and pasta station.”
Stir Cafe
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Has TV: Yes
Caters: Yes
Price range.
$ Price range Under $10
8 reviews
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I was roaming the city of New York lost on a rainy Friday afternoon. I tried to make it to the Financial District and to see the World Trade Center and Wall Street. Mission failed. It was just raining so hard and I was getting tired. While lost, I did stumble upon Stir Cafe.
This is a nice little breakfast/lunch joint to give yourself a chance to relax a little. My only beef with this place was the pungent frying smell. It's like I think the vents were off. The air was just thick of fried food smoke. It would actually smell decent if the restaurant was aired out enough, but goodness, I think they don't use their vents.
I just grabbed a bacon egg scramble. Nothing too special. It was just enough to fill me up with some good ol' breakfast food. They do serve Lavazza coffee, if you're into that. This place seemed really perfect for a rainy weather. I even got a good view of the busy street corner. Nice place to just watch people going out and about outside.
Got the french toast and a coffee. French toast was good, nothing special, but no complaints. Food came quick too but it was 6:30am and empty. My group had to pay after eating because their card machine was down. Once we went to pay, it was getting a bit busier and the machine was still screwy. Took about 10 min for me to pay, wish I would have had cash to make it easier had a realized how long paying with a card would take. Girl behind the counter wasn't very helpful either. Kept asking me if I could just pay cash despite me telling her many times I had no cash.
Sometimes you need to pay more attention to Yelp reviews rather than places kids want to eat. We were walking around Trinity Church and Wall Street and were hungry.
It is in a great location and the set up and food on display look great. Umfortunately, all of our food was rather bland, not much flavor.
It was about 11am so we had a mix of breakfast and lunch orders, but none were worth the price and nobody finished our portiosn. I had some eggs, potatoes, and toast. They desperately needed seasoning and just not that good.
Perhaps due to neighborhood and lack of choices they do not need to try hard, but I feel bad for those working on Wall Street.
We only came here because of it's proximity to the bull. The pastry selection was blah, and nothing else really caught my eye. Coffee was just ok. Weird infighting amongst the staff, as if they pick on each other all day long.
Most places make a nice bacon and egg sandwich for between $2-4 and generally somewhere inbetween depending on what boro you're in and how nice the area is. I have yet to come across a $5 bacon and egg sandwich but Stir Cafe has the audacity to charge that much and make one of the worst bacon and egg sandwiches I have ever had. Yes, even worse than the Halal deli guys who can't give you actual bacon in their sandwich.
The most overpriced bacon and egg sandwich I have ever seen in my life at $5, and looking so pitifully imbalanced with what seems like 3 eggs and just 2 measly strips of bacon, you would think that the country had a pork shortage. Stay the hell away.
It was a cold day on saturday and we needed something to keep us warm. We saw this coffee shop and decided to grab some Joe. The Misses had a latte and I had a double expresso. Not sure but 5 bucks for a latte and 4 bucks for a double expresso seems rather expensive… I mean I can head over to the Starbucks and indulge in a better grade of coffee for a lower price too…
The Misses tossed her's in the garbage, not sure if the milk was sour or if they added something into her drink that they were not suppose to by mistake " I hope " but it was bitter and sour " Maybe bad milk " not sure but it wasn't good.
My expresso was water downed, really not enjoyable adding sugar actually made it worse. Not sure what happened here but It wasn't worth what I paid. Actually, I wouldn't serve what "we" got to the public.
Guy behind the mexican counter licked his glove and kept serving food. This place is a tourist trap. Tuna salad was okay everything else was gross.
Great little cafe for a quick eat in the financial district. My egg sandwich was the best I've had. They were getting ready for lunch and the salad bar was beautiful and featured a variety of fresh vegetables and salad toppings. Really glad I found this place!