Café Mia is one J-train stop or a 20-minute walk from central Williamsburg — and increasingly, that walk is becoming a routine. Here's why, and how to get here.
Williamsburg has more good cafés than most US cities have cafés. We're not pretending otherwise. So when someone from Williamsburg trips out to Café Mia in Bushwick — and a growing number do, daily — there's usually a reason: a specific drink, a specific room, a quieter morning, a gallery walk that pairs well with coffee. This page is for them.
The "Williamsburg to Café Mia" trip is shorter than people assume. Most of our Williamsburg regulars come by subway, but biking and walking are both real options. Here's what the trip actually looks like from each common starting point:
One stop from Marcy Avenue to Kosciuszko Street. The walk from the station to Café Mia is 2 minutes — Broadway, southbound side.
Bedford Avenue L → Jefferson Avenue (3 stops). 10-minute walk south on Jefferson, left on Broadway.
The Broadway protected bike lane connects Williamsburg straight to our door. Docks at both ends.
For years, Williamsburg's coffee culture stayed in Williamsburg. The Bedford and Lorimer corridors had everything you needed. But over the past 18 months we've watched a quiet shift: a particular kind of Williamsburg coffee customer — one who values pace as much as quality — has started looking east.
The reason is partly that Bedford Avenue at 9 AM on a Saturday is no longer where you go to think. It's a beautiful street with a tourist energy. If you want a cafe where you can actually open your laptop, finish a chapter, hear yourself talk to your friend across the table — Bushwick offers that, and Café Mia in particular is built for it. We have free Wi-Fi, plenty of outlets, and a no-rush culture during weekday mornings that's hard to find on Bedford right now.
The other reason: matcha. We've been told, repeatedly, that we make some of the best matcha in north Brooklyn. We use ceremonial-grade matcha in every drink (no shortcuts to culinary-grade, ever), and we make our iced matcha with a technique that pulls cleaner sweetness than what most spots offer. We wrote a longer piece on the matcha story here.
"I started coming once a month from Williamsburg. Then weekly. Now I plan my Saturdays around the walk."
The walk itself, if you do it on foot, is the underrated part of the trip. Bushwick Avenue is a wide tree-lined corridor that connects the two neighborhoods, and the route passes things worth a stop:
The walk takes 30–35 minutes if you hustle, 50 minutes if you stop. Most people who do it once start doing it weekly.
If it's your first time, here's what we'd order in your shoes:
If you're coming from Williamsburg with a meeting on the other side, you can order ahead through the website or call (929) 813-1897. We'll have it ready when you arrive.
People mention the interior more than they mention the menu, and that's saying something. Emerald-green velvet chairs, dark wood tables, a cherry-blossom installation hanging from the ceiling, and pink-lit recessed shelving filled with plants. It's photogenic — your Instagram audience will thank you — but it's also genuinely calm to sit in, which is a rarer trick.
The light comes in golden in the morning. The seating is dense enough to feel busy without being cramped. There's room for a laptop on every table. We don't time-limit anyone during weekdays.
Café Mia · 1128 Broadway · Brooklyn, NY 11221 — between Halsey Street and Hancock Street, two minutes from the J/M/Z at Kosciuszko Street.
Open daily 8 AM – 5 PM. After 6 PM, the space transforms into the Stashmaster Loyalist Social Club (members-only evening hours).
We accept cash, all major credit/debit cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay. Free Wi-Fi, dog-friendly at the door, wheelchair accessible.
1128 Broadway, Bushwick, Brooklyn. Open daily 8 AM – 5 PM. The walk's worth it.
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