About

Moss is a café committed to community, sustainability, quality, and creativity. Our approach to food is simple – use the best local ingredients and let that speak for itself.

Our coffee is done right: ONYX beans brewed by serious baristas using recipes that bring out the unique flavors of each single-origin and blend. Our community is warm and open. Moss Café is both a respite and a place to connect.  

Sourcing from local farms allows us to serve the freshest, best-tasting produce while also inspiring creative dishes that connect us and our customers to our surroundings and the seasons. We hope to encourage a greater consciousness in the food we eat, where it comes from and the impact it has on both the planet and our community.

About Our Food

Moss café aims to be accessible to the entire community of Riverdale and beyond. For this reason, we are not only kosher under the Riverdale Vaad, but we also offer allergy-friendly options. Whether you can’t have dairy, gluten, nuts, or simply prefer not to have any of the above, we are happy to accommodate your preferences to the best of our abilities. In addition to being a pescatarian restaurant, we have strictly vegetarian and vegan options as well. 

​A note about our menus – they change a lot. Because we use small, local, and therefore seasonal farms, we constantly change the menu to work with the produce we have available to us. We utilize preservation methods such as pickling, curing, jam-making, etc. to diversify the menu and make the amazing, seasonal produce we get last a little bit longer. Items that are never seasonal in New York (hello: avocados and lemons!) will not be local of course, but their quality and the quality of their source will remain priority nonetheless.