Moto Coffee Machine

I love this place! I rode my SV 650 out from the Berkshires to check this place out, and I'll definitely be back. The coffee and pastries are excellent, and the folks behind the counter are very helpful. The bike store is a rare gem. Having them both together is just about perfect. The owner talked bikes with me for a little bit; even the other riders who were there were friendly. I just wish I were a little closer! It's a great weekend morning trip.

I was walking by and noticed how neat it looked inside and decided to check it out. When I walked in I was immediately greeted by the girl behind the counter with short brown curly hair who had stated the kitchen was closed not even a hi or welcome. I politely asked if the she was still making coffee. She was very annoyed and stated “yes”. As she began to make my order she was slamming things giving dirty looks. I felt extremely uncomfortable. All she had to do was politely state she was no longer making coffee and I would have left with no problem. When she gave me the coffee she walked away annoyed not even a “have a nice day”. Like I said I was extremely uncomfortable and will not return.

This place is a total ripoff with lame service. Came in for a quick latte on my way out of town with high hopes on account of all the great reviews. I should have known better since most of them were comments about the moto gear and not the cafe portion of the store. Ordered a “house made chai latte” that sounded great despite the exorbitant $6.25 price tag. Paid the $1 up charge for oat milk. Then stood there watching the three ladies behind the counter proceed to chit chat with each other. For ten minutes. The lady who took my order was standing around chatting, slowly unloading the dishwasher while complaining about some past job. Another, who seemed to maybe be the manager, was just standing there talking, and a third was preparing food for the one person sitting in the table area. There was nobody else in the cafe. I was the only customer waiting for a beverage. I literally stood there confused, wondering if maybe they were waiting for the chai tea to brew, or if they needed a dish out of the dishwasher to make the drink, or if there was another fancy “house made” method for pulling together a chai latte that didn’t require anybody to do anything for several minutes. Clearly that was giving them too much credit because the one unloading the dishwasher at one point finally remembered that I was standing there, because she turned to the manager and said, “Oh, there’s a chai latte order. At least I think it was a chai latte.” Then she looked at me confused, and said, “yeah, it was a chai latte.” By the way, the manager was clearly aware that I had been standing at the register waiting for something to happen because at one point she made eye contact and smiled at me, but she was content just hanging out with her employees as if it was totally normal to ignore waiting customers in favor of gossiping rather than preparing their order. At that point, I had been standing there patiently watching this circus and was about to lose it. I reminded them that I had ordered a chai latte with oat milk - a detail that they charged me for but clearly failed to remember - something that would have wreaked havoc on my system if they’d gotten it wrong since I’m lactose intolerant. The manager went to start making my order and I went to use the bathroom. As I got to the bathroom about 15 seconds after leaving the coffee counter, I heard her turn the milk steamer shut off, thinking to myself there’s no way that was long enough to heat up milk for a latte. Washed my hands in the bathroom and came back out to pick up my drink. Was pretty disappointed to find that it was tiny (maybe 6 ounces?) and lukewarm. Check the photo. I don’t have large hands. They just have tiny drinks. For $7.25 no less. When I said something to the manager asking her to heat it up so it was more than lukewarm, she blamed the fact that “it had been sitting there for a few minutes.” If the amount of time it took me to wash my hands and walk back to the counter was “a few minutes” then I must have waited an hour before they started my order. She offered to make me another one, which would have been a total waste, then explained that they don’t make it hotter because they would risk burning themselves. Interesting how every other coffee place I’ve ever been to is able to make hot lattes without “burning themselves”. She then offered to refund me as I was about to walk out the door with my tiny, lukewarm $7.25 latte. This was supposed to be a quick five minute caffeine stop and I had already lost fifteen minutes and wasn’t about to waste any more time here. TLDR: This place has poor service and ridiculous prices for itty bitty, lukewarm drinks. Don’t be fooled by all the five star reviews. The cafe portion of this place is run by total amateurs and isn’t worth your time or your money.

This place is amazing. Fascinating combination of a cafe, art store and bike shop. We travelled to Hudson recently for my roommates birthday, we moved to NY recently and don't have a lot of friends here yet, so we've been doing a fair amount of exploring. We were able to rent a small car and travel with all our friends to upstate NY and explore a new area. When we were walking from the river to the restaurant where we were gonna have lunch, I decided to stop for a coffee, and oh boy, so good we did. They have good coffee and I also bought a chocolate bar, dark chocolate from Colombia, very tasty, tho Alice are most of it, I almost bought a second one, but we were about to have lunch so I decided to wait. Once in the store we saw there's a big selection of motorcycle gear, art books, outfit and the sort. I'm afraid of motorcycles but I was fascinated by all the cool products they have. None of the bikers were threatening, all the opposite, very nice folks. The store guy used to be a painter and he shared with us about the store, their stories and tips about the area. They had some very cute pink shoes that weren't available on my size, so I had to get the grey ones, which aren't as cute but are very sturdy, they're my first piece of biking gear and the start of a promising new and adventurous hobby. We spent almost an hour at the store, then got some lunch at a cutesie French restaurant, and then drove back home to NY with all our friends. It was a lovely day, I feel very privileged and blessed to have such beautiful friends to spend time with. Specially Cat. Windsor is moving away soon tho, he'll be missed. But hopefully we'll be able to cast a new member to fill the void.