Qahwah House Coffee - Astoria Queens

Qahwah House Astoria sits at 22-37 31st Street, a few blocks from Ditmars. Owner Ibrahim Alhasbani is an eighth-generation Yemeni coffee farmer, and the cafe runs on beans sourced directly from his family farms in the highlands of Yemen. The chain has grown to more than thirty locations, but the program has not changed. One hundred percent organic Arabica from family land. The menu runs traditional Yemeni drinks, including spiced teas with cinnamon and cardamom, plus Adeni chai cut with milk, nutmeg, and Yemeni black tea. Pastries include bint al-sahn, a layered honey cake drizzled with sidr honey from Yemen. The room is open late, until midnight on weekdays and one in the morning on weekends. Order the Adeni chai if you came in to taste a tea no one else in the city is making this way. Order the bint al-sahn with sidr honey if you want the Yemeni table the way Ibrahim's family sets it.