Lion's Milk

About

Coffee Shop ~ Fine goods & bites

Story

The coffee is from Devocion, which is a Williamsburg brand. The coffee beans are dry milled in Bogota, and rapidly shipped to the USA via FedEx for roasting. This means it is guaranteed newly roasted, ultra-fresh coffee, so that the cup you hold in your hands still breathes the mists of the Colombian campo. We have sandwiches ,Spinach and Feta / potatoe Boreks(Bourekas), specially made of the Mediterranean products we sell on the shelves.

Established in 2015.

Lion's Milk is actually means Rakı which is an unsweetened, anise-flavored Turkish alcoholic drink that is popular in Turkey, as an apéritif. It is often served with seafood or meze. It is similar to several other alcoholic beverages available around the Mediterranean and the Middle East, like ouzo, sambuca and arak.

Dilution with water causes rakı to turn a milky-white color. This phenomenon has resulted in the drink being popularly referred to Lion's Milk. Lion is a Turkish colloquial metaphor for a strong, courageous man, this gives the term a meaning close to "the milk for the strong."

Every Turkish person knows story and loves the term. So do we..