Brew Pass Brew Pass

Independent coffee, social by design

The daily ritual of
belonging somewhere.

Brew Pass turns your neighborhood’s independent cafes into a community you can actually feel: the people, the regulars, the table you keep coming back to.

Explore the cafés. Join the culture.

Download on theApp Store I run a cafe → see how partnering works

Live in Astoria, Queens. iPhone today; Android is in closed testing.

Brew Pass: explore the cafés, join the culture

Why we exist

Bring back the third place.

Home is the first place. Work is the second. The third place, the cafe where you’re a regular, where people know your name, is where community actually happens.

That third place has been quietly disappearing. Independent cafes are the last ones standing, and they’re the ones under the most pressure. Brew Pass exists to make them thriving, social, full-of-life gathering places again, and to bring a little more positivity and real connection back to the block.

How it works

One pass to the cafes that make your neighborhood yours.

Brew Pass is part discovery, part ritual, part friend group, built around the independent cafes you already love.

Sip without the wallet dance

Load your pass once, order in the app, ahead or on the spot, and show your pickup code at the bar. Your usual, minus the fumbling.

Order ahead

Pick a same-day pickup time and walk past the line, at cafes that offer it. Change of plans? Cancel in the app until shortly before pickup and your credits come straight back; after that, ask the cafe from your order screen.

Rank & review honestly

One quick “which was better?” after each visit builds a ranking that’s honestly yours, and you can leave a real review for each cafe.

Show up for events

Cuppings, latte-art nights, book clubs, brew-method workshops. RSVP in the app, with seats saved for members.

Coffee, but social

Connect with a QR code, see when friends are nearby if you both opt in, and send a coffee invite: a cafe, a time, done.

Bring a friend, both win

Share your invite link. When a friend joins and makes their first order, you both earn credit toward your next cup.

For cafe owners

Fill your quiet hours with new regulars.

Brew Pass is built for people who aren’t your regulars yet, pointed at the hours you want to fill. Members order in the app, ahead of time or on the spot at your counter, and you set each drink’s quiet-hours price yourself.

  • Your menu, your prices, busy and quiet hoursYou price every drink yourself, from your own dashboard, and change it any time.
  • No monthly software feeWe keep a share of each member drink and you keep the rest; the figures are on one page we go through together, in person.
  • Runs on an iPad you already haveOrders land on a counter screen next to your register, with a pickup code. Nothing else to buy.

See how partnering works →

Porta 23 and Silvia’s Cafe are live in the app today.

Founding Cafes, Astoria

Founding Cafes are the Astoria cafes that launch with us: a badge members see on your card and your profile, and a say in how Brew Pass grows here. A cafe joining Astoria now is both a Founding Cafe and on launch-window terms, which we go through in person on one page.

Tell us about your cafe

Deep before wide

We’re starting in one neighborhood, and we’re starting with you.

Brew Pass is live in Astoria, Queens with a founding group of members and cafes. We earn one neighborhood at a time. Community is something you build block by block, not city by city. Download it on iPhone, or tell us about your cafe.

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Astoria Queens · 2026