carafe

Designed by Dean Maltz, a New York City architect, the handblown carafe is $260.

Founded by sisters Kimberly and Nancy Wu, their online shop now includes ceramic dishes such as scalloped bowls and coffee pour-over sets made by artist Takeshi Omura and this hand-blown glass bottle, called the “bubble carafe” for its bulbous base.

For wines, the best deals are the $45-$55 wine bottles; a server will pour the wine into a plastic carafe for you to take back to your seat.

It's simple, drip Intelligentsia, but it's served cold in a carafe alongside a glass packed with crushed ice, and, if you like, a smaller carafe of cream and a complementary slice of coffee cake.

On this day she brought leftover kebabs, a carafe of Turkish coffee and a prayer rug.