Lucid Cafe

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Sure, you might wonder how I—a cafe reviewer—could be so complimentary towards this teensy spot. It’s so small that it shares the same street number as the next door cleaners: 311. It’s almost as though this place was a defunct side room that the cleaners either leases out or that the owner decided to reinvent. Either way, put a red patio umbrella out in the front and plop down two women in their mid-twenties, coffee cups in hand and staring out at the world and Lexington Avenue through sunglasses, and you’ve got yourself the canoe of cafes—it floats, it moves, it’s imbued with a sense of pedigree, and many people adore it. What’s more, the cafe does a lot with so little space—not always the case when it coexists with a culture of glorified minimalism. No, the priced panels of Van Gogh’s Sunflowers on holiday, the line from Proverbs 3:5-6, written up in glass pen on the opposing mirror wall, and the assortment of curiosities atop the medium cooler—Lucid Cafe coffee cup sleeves, a vase full of Choco Pies, humanoid cow figurines that clip and open, a canister of PURE MAPLE SYRUP from Vermont—places you in a chamber of visual reverberations. “My mom, she only speaks Korean,” said the lady who took my order and had been watching me pivot and spin throughout the space. “She says she likes your braids,” she finished. It was after interacting for a brief moment then—a thank you, light commentary, one question—that I left, turns out lucid as can be.

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Drink: Cappuccino

Someone did not dial in Counter Culture’s HOLOGRAM correctly. That is all I want to say here. 

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Price: Cappuccino=$5

Hours: Monday–Friday {7–15}; Saturday–Sunday {8–15}

Extra Notes:

While I didn’t get food, they appeared to have great vegan treats in the case.