Picky Barista Opens UWS Outpost On 72nd Street

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY - Caffeine lovers on the Upper West Side, look no further.

Picky Barista opened its fourth Manhattan location on 72nd Street Sunday, complete with a full-service hot and iced coffee bar, all-day breakfast menu and homemade pastries. The café, located between Broadway and West End, is helmed by the same owner as Peaky Barista.

The new name will be used at the chain’s other locations in the Upper West and the Upper East Side “throughout the next few months,” owner Dragan Bulic said in a statement. “We are looking forward to serving you some great coffee and delicious homemade pastries.”

Self-described as a “family-owned, cozy and hip coffee shop with a European vibe,” Picky Barista offers Stumptown coffees, avocado toasts, egg and cheese croissants, prosciutto mozzarella and pesto sandwiches and overnight oats, plus pastries ranging from apple cakes to cinnamon rolls to vegan banana-walnut muffins.

You can view a full menu here.

“All of our pastries are homemade on premises and are inspired by the recipes of Mama Bulic, who also helps out in the kitchen,” reads the café’s website. “Coming from Serbia, you will notice a big Balkan influence in our menu. Allow yourself to be transported to that magical land with our Balkan coffee, our burek, or our baklava.

“We live by the mantra ‘coffee is always a good idea,’ and think you will too after you relax and unwind with a tasty beverage and pastry at Peaky Barista coffee shop.”

Dragan Bulic, a 10-year hospitality industry veteran, first opened the Manhattan Valley location in 2019 after emigrating from Serbia in 2008. It was his passion for coffee, hospitality and Peaky Blinders-era iconography that spurred the vision for the coffee shop chain.

Picky Barista is located at 245 West 72nd St.