it all started with...
A peculiar child that favored building out Lego homes over dressing Barbie dolls, flipping through Architectural Digests over channels of television and enjoyed sipping on café con leche over most anything else.
The innate interest in aesthetics, creating spaces and culinary expression only brewed stronger with age. after 20+ years of eclectic experience and realized passions, a childhood dream comes to fruition via this small business in the West Village…where the paths of self-employment and single-motherhood became her next journey.
Ad Hoc | Collective was birthed June 2017, 2 months before the actual birth of the owner’s only child. the ever-changing space has had many iterations of a layout and furnishings over the years and offers an array of vintage + modern home goods and is the setting for a quaint coffee bar and kitchen for small bites. spring of 2023 welcomed the next change with an expansion of work space to make room for a revised menu for extended hours and mocktail offerings to be enjoyed throughout the day into the evening.
as we enter our 9th year in operation, we are working on a transition from day service to late afternoon into the evening as a cafe / wine bar. the space is sentimental to us and we love creating and offering our tiny shop for those who enjoy a little more of a subdued but cozy ambiance.
13 christopher street 10014
then continued with...
rosecrans, a larger cafe and wine bar with a full-service floral boutique and plant shop.
7 greenwich avenue 10014
the carriage house, our home behind the shop where we have hosted our friends, neighbors and community for 6 years.
tucked away behind the cafe
paquita, a tiny loose leaf tea shop of 100+/- varieties, limited seating and an array of home goods/decor.
242 west 10th street, (east storefront) 10014
and a hand in...
west10west, a small table-service restaurant.
242 west 10th street, (west storefront) 10014