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Reserve coffee, taro at heart

Cafe Taro is a New Haven coffeehouse for single-origin pour-overs, a taro latte made from root we steam every morning, and a bakery that runs on ube.

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A lilac taro latte with a leaf poured in the foam, in a mustard stoneware cup on a walnut table

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Order ahead, ready in 20 minutes

214 Crown Street, New Haven

Steamed at six, poured all day

Every morning we peel and steam taro root, then mash it with coconut sugar and a pinch of salt. Folded through milk it tastes of vanilla, toasted rice and a little sweet potato. Nothing from a powder, nothing dyed.

The taro bar

  • Taro latte$6.75

    The house signature: steamed taro and whole milk, over a ristretto or without. Hot or iced.

  • Taro cream cold brew$6.50

    Cold brew under a lilac taro cold foam, finished with flaky salt.

  • Ube coconut latte$7.00

    Ube halaya, coconut milk and espresso. The deepest purple thing we make.

  • Taro hojicha latte$6.75

    Roasted green tea and taro, toasty and low in caffeine.

  • Black sesame taro latte$7.25

    Toasted sesame paste swirled through the taro. Tastes like the best part of a mochi.

  • Brown butter ube latteWinter$7.50

    Ube, browned butter and a little maple, for the cold months.

Order a taro latteOat or coconut milk at no charge
A mound of freshly mashed violet ube on a white plate with a fork
Ube, mashed by hand for the ube coconut latte.

From the bar and the bakery

The full menu
Two deep-golden croissants on dark slate under a falling dusting of flour

Laminated at four

Rows of purple ube pandesal rolls dusted with golden crumbs on a baking tray
Steam rising as water is poured from a copper kettle into a dark ceramic dripper over a glass server
A barista pouring steamed milk from a steel pitcher into a latte, drawing a rosetta

Ube croissants and pandesal from 6:30, then pour-overs brewed one cup at a time and a rosetta on every latte.

A barista pouring from a black gooseneck kettle into a glass pour-over brewer at a dim coffee bar

The reserve bar

Four small-lot coffees at a time, bought a few bags at a time and brewed by hand at the end of the bar. On Friday to Sunday afternoons, try three side by side as a tasting flight.

  • Ethiopia Guji, washed$7.50

    Bergamot, peach, jasmine. Bright and tea-like.

  • Colombia Huila, honey$7.00

    Red grape, panela, cocoa nib. Round and sweet.

  • Kenya Nyeri, AA$8.00

    Blackcurrant, grapefruit, brown sugar. Juicy.

  • Panama Geisha, natural$14.00

    Florals, mango, lavender honey. A few cups a day while it lasts.

Tasting flight, $16. Three 4 oz pours with notes from the barista. Fridays to Sundays from 2 PM.

Order ahead, skip the line

Build your order from the whole menu, choose a pickup time and pay at the counter. It waits for you on the lilac shelf inside the door, with your name on the cup.

  1. Choose

    Anything on the menu, up to twelve of each.

  2. Pick a time

    Every fifteen minutes, as soon as twenty from now.

  3. Collect

    From the shelf by the door. No line, no waiting.

Start an order
A short glass of iced coffee with a layer of cream in bright morning sun and leaf shadows
Three hands raising lattes with leaf art in a toast over a wooden table

Catering and the Taro Room

Lilac boxes of pastry for the office, a taro latte bar that travels, and a private room upstairs for 32.

Plan something
A dim dining room with walnut tables, dark leather chairs and tall slatted wood screens

Visit Crown Street

Today’s hours

214 Crown Street
New Haven, CT 06510
(203) 555-0174
Opening hours
Monday – Friday6:30 AM – 7 PM
Saturday7 AM – 7 PM
Sunday7:30 AM – 5 PM
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