The Elbow Room - FLUSHING

Quaint little cafe with excellent ambience. A must go to place in Flushing.

What a cool find in this town! The smell of the bakery and atmosphere is second to none. Matthew was super helpful and friendly and makes a delicious latte. Wish we lived closer to go more!

I love the elbow room. I grew up going there and have always loved the atmosphere. However, today made me very disappointed. I was standing outside with my family and friends and our 1.5 year olds under the awning trying to get out of the rain at the harvest festival. Our kids were playing and because they are 1.5 years old, they saw a window and wanted to put their hands on it. They hit their hands on the window, we saw it happen and immediately told them to stop and not touch the window. Not 30 seconds later we were approached by a very rude man who ran our use and began to yell at us saying “those were original 1800s glass pane windows and are very breakable and they need to stop banging on them because they will shatter and cut their arms off”…along with some other rude comments. We understand that, that was why we told them to stop and they stopped. But he wouldn’t have known that because he didn’t hear us tell them to stop. He was clearly very pissed, maybe he was having a bad day or something so I tried to brush it off, but once I told a family member about the encounter, they also shared a not pleasant experience they had with him, involving getting yelled at for asking a question about a price of an item. I’m not sure who this man was or why he is so rude to people but because he was so rude and outlandish, it made the end of the day a bummer. There were so many different ways he could have handled that. I’m not sure I’ll give my business there again after today and that makes me a little sad because of all my good memories there, but I don’t want to encounter that guy again. If he doesn’t like people he for sure shouldn’t be working at a coffee shop.

Visited the place this morning! We tried everything bagel and apple danish, very delicious! and the lady who attended us was lovely and sweet.

Visited the place this morning! We tried everything bagel and apple danish, very delicious! and the lady who attended us was lovely and sweet.