About Orens
Meet Oren.
The unintentional coffee icon.
When Oren Bloostein set out to open his first coffee shop in New York City in 1986, he decided to do things a little bit differently: he sourced the highest quality beans he could find straight from farmers, roasted the beans right in the store, and brewed each cup to order.
Since then, Oren has become one of the world’s leading authorities on coffee, and was the winner of the first ever “Roaster’s Choice Award” by the Roaster’s Guild of America.
Today, Oren’s Coffee remains one of New York’s most beloved and trusted coffee roasters, and is known as NYC’s original specialty roaster. We still source our beans directly from farmers and small cooperatives, roast them with precision, and guarantee that all the coffee that we sell has been roasted within the past 24 hours. We think it’s the way coffee should be. Our loyal customers seem to agree.
Our Commitment to Quality
Every once in a while, you might find that we’re out of a certain roast. The most likely reason? The batch didn’t pass our quality tests.
We’re obsessed with making sure that every time you fill your cup with one of our roasts, that it’s the freshest and best tasting roast possible.
This means we’re constantly checking the quality of the beans at three key checkpoints; before we buy, before it’s shipped out, and once it gets to us.
If the coffee doesn’t meet our standard anywhere along our check points — even after we’ve already bought the coffee — we won’t roast it. It’s probably the only time we ever think not having coffee is a good thing.
You can be sure you’ll always get the best specialty grade coffee beans from around the world, roasted fresh, that’s our promise to you.
Relationships with Our Partners
Getting the best quality beans means working directly with farmers as much as possible. And when we do, we work to ensure our partners are fairly compensated — the way we’ve worked since the very beginning.
We’re constantly traveling the globe to meet with new farmers and other cooperatives, cupping (tasting) their coffee beans and finding the best ones to roast and make directly available to you. You could say we were farm-to-cup before farm-to-table was a thing.
Because of our relationships with our farmers and partners, our roasting capacity and loyal customers like yourself, we can bring the world’s best specialty grade coffees to you — all at a reasonable price.