Obscure Coffee Roasters

Obscure Coffee sits on Melrose Street in Bushwick, sharing an entrance with the Bushwick Comedy Club. The cafe is dark and metal-leaning by design, the first brick and mortar from owner Norberto Pena, who grew up in Puerto Rico and built the roster around Latin American producers. The menu leans Puerto Rican when seasonal lots allow, with rotating offerings from Peru, Mexico, and Colombia filling out the rest. Mornings draw a slow rotation of Bushwick regulars, comedians prepping for sets, and people who came for matcha and stayed to read the producer cards. The pace is unhurried. Order a Puerto Rican single origin if you want a cup most New York roasters cannot pour you. Order a cortado if you want to see what creative post-harvest processing tastes like in milk.