Conceived like a giant piece of furniture, it’s indeed a collaboration with a furniture designer, UM Project founder François Chambard. Here is the coffee bar proper, the nerve center of the operation. Adding airiness is a skylight installed after a boarded-up original was discovered, thrillingly, during the renovation.Īt the rear, a canopy appears to lower the ceiling again, a bookend effect. Here, she eliminated color and “paid homage to the industrial rawness of the space,” she says.Ī uniform white covers the brick walls and wooden ceiling, highlighting their roughness. The largest zone, the central area, offers café seating. Then she surfaced the ceiling and sidewalls in paper digitally printed with an abstract composition in blue, red, and white by one of the owners, an artist who was inspired by the “over-spray” left on the protective cardboard he uses when he’s painting. To demarcate the entry, she made it a more intimate archway by dropping the ceiling from 12 feet to 9.
But she managed to create three distinct zones. Previously, it was a meat locker for the butcher shop next door. Ghislaine Viñas had only 450 square feet of down-and-dirty concrete-floored space to work with. (For the uninitiated, that’s an espresso shot topped by silky steamed milk and an Americano, respectively.) The first permanent location, a storefront by Ghislaine Viñas Interior Design, is now gaining additional admirers for its fresh style. A pop-up, two years ago, introduced New Yorkers to “flat whites” and “long blacks” as expertly made as they are in New Zealand, where three of the four owners are from. If coffee-bar decor has tended toward arts-and-crafts cliché, heavy on nostalgia and reclaimed wood, Happy Bones has hit the reset button. Several varieties of Counter Culture beans are available to go by the bag.Everybody, Get Happy: Happy Bones Café’s First Permanent Digs
If you’re hungry they offer a few artisanal baked goods. *The menu consists of filtered coffees, espressos, piccolos, cappuccinos, lattes, flat whites, teas, and iced coffees. Happy Bones is a welcome assault on the senses and a place sure to keep you within the cadence of New York City. Grab a flat white, take in the art adorning the brick, or sit out front and let your imagination flow and your body start to buzz into the Manhattan electricity. What’s in your cup just might be the best thing you taste all day. Happy Bones uses Counter Culture beans, a roaster that is continually recognized as one of the most important and highest quality coffee providers in the United States. And if you’re located in a neighborhood named after the country that literally invented espresso… you better be working with the best. Happy Bones hits the mark on aesthetics but you’re here for the espresso. The entire palette is white, gray, and black with pops of color from art pieces suspended on the wall. There’s a mixture of mesh and perforated metal throughout, as well as geometric panels encasing the lights above the coffee counter and more angular boxes housing teas and other products behind the counter. Once inside, the vibe is placid while you’re also greeted with stark-whitewashed brick walls, and a few small tables. If you aren’t yet spinning at the velocity at which New York operates you’ll be on your way after walking through the door of the small storefront that used to serve as the alleyway between the two adjacent buildings. In NoLita you’ll find Happy Bones, a tiny coffee shop that exists to feed and advance that NYC energy with its uncommon blend of local art, global periodicals, and espresso. You can’t help but feel it in your core, to your bones. New York has a pulse, a raging rhythm of artistry and ingenuity.
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