Est. 2019 · New York City
Our Story
A café built
with intention.
Every cup, every corner, every conversation — crafted to slow you down and bring you back to what matters.
The Beginning
Born from a shared obsession.
LuxeCafe started as a conversation between two specialty roasters who kept asking the same question: why couldn't a great coffee shop also be a beautiful place to spend the day?
In 2019, Elena and James signed a lease on a 900-square-foot space in Brooklyn. They stripped it back to the bones, rebuilt it with reclaimed materials, and opened with a menu of six coffees and three pastries. The queue stretched around the block on day one.
Six years later, we still make every decision the same way: slowly, deliberately, and with the guest in mind first.
6+
Years open
14
Origin farms
40k+
Cups served monthly
2019
The year we opened our doors in Brooklyn.
Slow coffee.
We never rush a pour. Every espresso is dialled in fresh each morning.
Elena Marchetti
Founder & Head Roaster
"A café should feel like a long exhale."
Founder's Vision
Coffee as a practice.
Elena's vision was never to open the busiest café in the city. It was to open the one people would remember — the one they'd describe to friends as "the place that just felt right."
That meant saying no to a lot of things. No to flavoured syrups. No to background music that competes with conversation. No to furniture that prioritises looks over comfort. And yes to everything that makes a morning feel like a gift.
"I wanted LuxeCafe to be the kind of place where you come in for a coffee and leave having written three pages of your novel," Elena says. "That's the only metric I care about."
Our Philosophy
Coffee is not a commodity. It's a craft.
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The 72-Hour Rule
Every bean we serve has been roasted within 72 hours of your cup. We roast in-house, in small batches, twice a week. No warehoused stock. No stale coffee. Just beans at their absolute peak — when the CO₂ is still releasing and the aromatics are alive.
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Temperature Precision
Our espresso machines are calibrated to ±0.1°C. Because a single degree changes everything.
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Gram-Perfect Doses
Every dose is weighed to 0.1g. Consistency isn't luck — it's discipline.
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Seasonal Dialling
Humidity, temperature, and altitude all affect how coffee extracts. Our baristas recalibrate every espresso recipe with the seasons — not because we have to, but because the coffee deserves it. What you drink in January is a different recipe to what you drink in July, even if the bean is the same.
Beans & Sourcing
We know the farmers by name.
Direct trade isn't a marketing term for us — it's a relationship. We visit every farm we source from. We pay above Fair Trade premiums. And we share our cupping notes with the producers so they can improve their crop year on year.
Our current menu draws from 14 farms across three continents. Each origin is chosen for a specific flavour role — whether that's the floral brightness of our Yirgacheffe espresso or the deep cocoa backbone of our Huila blend.
Explore our current menu→Ethiopia
· Yirgacheffe
Jasmine, bergamot, stone fruit
Colombia
· Huila
Dark chocolate, caramel, walnut
Guatemala
· Antigua
Brown sugar, almond, dried cherry
The People
Meet the team behind every cup.
Elena Marchetti
Founder & Head Roaster
Former Q-grader with 12 years in specialty coffee. Elena spent three years sourcing beans across Ethiopia and Colombia before opening LuxeCafe.
James Okafor
Co-Founder & Creative Director
Interior architect turned café designer. James shaped every corner of LuxeCafe — from the reclaimed oak shelves to the hand-thrown ceramic cups.
Soo-Yeon Park
Head Barista & Trainer
World Barista Championship finalist. Soo-Yeon leads our in-house training programme and develops each seasonal espresso blend.
Come Say Hello
The best way to know us
is to visit.
Pull up a chair. Order something slow. Stay as long as you like. That's what we built this for.