For those of you who do not live on staten island there are many different places around her to get a delicious breakfast. My favorite place, Beans and Leaves, just opened up this year. It is located on Forest Avenue, about 6 minutes away from Wagner. It is a little shop with about 10 or so tables. Sometimes there might be a bit of a wait but it is definitely worth it. If you are someone who enjoys waffles, this is the place to go. Here they have variety of different breakfast waffles that you can make yourself. You can add your own assorted fruit like, bananas, strawberries, and blueberries. To make your waffle ever more delicious you can add chocolate( dark or milk), peanut butter ,caramel, Nutella, powered sugar or their home made whipped cream. My personal favorite would have to be the s’mores waffle. This is a waffle with dark chocolate, crushed gram crackers and melted marshmallow on top. It out of this world! A waffle with bananas and whipped cream and a waffle with Nutella and strawberries are also customer favorites.  

Everyone needs a coffee to get them going in the morning. At beans and leaves you can try things you may have never even thought existed. They have your regular coffee, frappuccino, cappuccinos, lattes  and smoothies but also a variety of different drinks you may have never tasted. Some of these include but are not limited to cake batter, s’mores, pumpkin spice, Cinnabon, Vanilla hazelnut, white chocolate almond, sugar cookie, Jamaican me crazy, coffee cake and amaretto. Unlike usual breakfast places, at Beans and Leaves you order before you sit. There is also no menu, so your food choice is whatever you’re feeling when you go up to order. From my experience being there, I see that everyone always has a full plate with an assortment of toppings. Seeing this, it makes me realize that it is okay for me to eat as much as I want without people looking at me.

This correlates to what we are learning in class about how others determine how much they are going to eat depending on the people they are with and the people around them. When I see my friend eating more on her waffle , I tend to eat more. Sometimes when I hear someone order something I remember that I want that too so I get more on my waffle. The atmosphere of the cafe cues a person to eat more because there are so many delicious options that its hard to resist. There is also a visual aspect to it, seeing only a waffle on my plate (a small portion) it makes me want to fill it up with all the different toppings.This makes me eat more than I expected. After I eat, I am so full I can go until dinner time without eating.

Just a fact, their busiest days are usually Saturday and Sunday mornings so if you go prepare for a line!