Fort Greene · Brooklyn

Breakfast among
the plants

Stone-milled flour, slow mornings, and more ferns than seats. Open from seven on Adelphi Street, most days.

The cafe's front window on a bright morning, lined with terracotta pots and light spilling across the timber counter.

Why we opened

A greenhouse that
happens to serve
breakfast

We started with sixty plants and one very small oven. The plants multiplied first. Now the mill runs on Tuesdays, the sourdough starter has a name, and the pothos in the back window has made it most of the way across the ceiling.

Everything is made here, in the morning, in quantities that run out. We think that’s the point.

The mill starts: 6:00The mill starts
Plants, roughly: 214Plants, roughly
Communal table: 1Communal table

On the board this week

Bowls of granola with yoghurt, fresh figs and raspberries, styled on a dark rustic surface.

Fern Bowl

$14

Our house granola, cultured yoghurt, and whatever the farm sent.

Two slices of smashed avocado on toasted sourdough, served on a matte dark ceramic plate.

The Adelphi

$16

Thick-cut sourdough, smashed avocado, pickled everything.

A tray of freshly baked spiral cardamom buns, glossy and golden, shot close up.

Cardamom Knot

Laminated Friday morning, pulled from the oven at seven.

Shakshuka in a cast-iron pan: eggs baked into a rich tomato sauce and scattered with parsley.

Greenhouse Eggs

$18

Slow-cooked tomato, three eggs, a lot of herbs.

A latte seen from above, with a rosetta poured into the microfoam, in a dark cup on a wooden table.

Fern Latte

$5.5

Sey Coffee espresso, oat or whole, poured with a steady hand.

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The room

Thirty-one seats,
two hundred plants

A narrow storefront with a south-facing window, a communal walnut table, and a back corner that stays cool all summer. Everything not nailed down has something growing out of it.