Newbery Street Coffee Roasters

Thai coffee, roasted in Shirley

The roasting happens up the road in Shirley and the coffee comes mostly from Thailand, which is the short version of what separates this Brookline counter from the others. Newbery Street Coffee Roasters runs as a pop-up café in residence at Merai Bar, working a compact program of curated pour-overs, espresso, Asian-inspired signature drinks and salt bread baked fresh alongside them. The name nods at Boston's Newbury Street, at new coffee origins and at coffee berries all at once. The founder arrived in the United States in 2023 and roasts the beans himself, and there is a competition record behind the counter: third place in the U.S. National Brewers Cup in both 2024 and 2025, plus an SCA intermediate roasting certificate.

Pour-over is the center of the program

Coffee comes first and everything else arranges itself around it. Pour-over is not incidental. The selection is curated lot by lot, and at public events the founder works three or four carafes at once. The roster runs through Thai coffees alongside Ethiopia, Brazil and Colombia, with retail lots such as Nawin Doi Chang Washed, Patio Bonito SL28 Advanced, Beaver's Choice and Nui and Aoy Lactic Natural. One of them, a Colombian Pink Bourbon, took an honorable mention in the filter category at the 2025 Global Coffee Awards. Matcha and Thai tea fill out the drinks list, and the food side stays deliberately short, salt bread and a few snacks rather than a menu.

Black Sesame Latte first, salt bread beside it

If the decision has to be quick, order the Black Sesame Latte and put a piece of salt bread next to it. That pairing catches what the pop-up is: a roaster-led drinks list with one simple savory bake, made specifically to go with coffee and served under the name N-Pan, with the food leaning toward a Thai-inspired breakfast. Azuki Matcha is the order if matcha is the reason for the trip, and Thai tea pulls hardest on the Thai thread. Coffee drinkers should skip all of that and take a pour-over from the Thai and global lots, which is where the roasting shows itself, particularly in the floral, fruity register of the lighter and medium-roasted Thai coffees.