The Barn drive-thru coffee opens in Patchogue
The Reindeer Tracks holiday season latte at The Barn in Patchogue. Credit: Newsday/Marie Elena Martinez
And just like that ... Long Island’s newest location of The Barn has opened in Suffolk County, on Patchogue’s Medford Road. Taking over the long-shuttered Dairy Barn, the shop launched with a new holiday menu featuring 15 seasonal drinks.
Featuring For Five Coffee, The Barn sells coffee beverages, such as chai lattes, vanilla lattes and plain old iced coffees, as well as a variety of iced teas, lemonades, seasonal hot chocolate and cider. But it’s the hot and iced specialty drinks — which run around $8 — like the rainbow cookie latte, topped with requisite rainbow cookies and the Powdered Donut, sprinkled with cinnamon and crowned with an actual doughnut, that gets patrons excited.
Earlier this year, The Barn opened in Huntington, followed by East Northport’s Larkfield Road location, with both generating lines at peak coffee-drinking hours. The revamped red drive-thrus have taken TikTok by storm, with both coffee lovers and Instagram-prone patrons posting shots of trumped-up lattes and dessert-topped iced coffees.
The jumbo peppermint coffee bucket at The Barn in Patchogue. Credit: The Barn/Irena Angeliades
The Barn's new holiday menu touts seasonal specials, $12-$13, like a pecan pie cold brew (topped with a whole slice of pecan pie!), a gingerbread cake pop latte featuring vanilla cinnamon coffee in a gingerbread cup with a gingerbread cake pop. Don't sleep on the Reindeer Tracks latte, a mocha hazelnut vanilla latte with whipped cream, pretzels and chocolate drizzle or the banana bread matcha latte — yes, with a slice of banana bread on top. To share: A jumbo peppermint coffee bucket that holds 52 ounces of peppermint iced coffee ornamented with lights and bows, a wreath doughnut and, of course, candy canes ($19.95).
A convenient escape that harkens back to a simpler time, when weary adults ran through a Dairy Barn to grab the essentials for the next day — milk, peanut butter, cereal — The Barn is the brainchild of husband-and-wife team Irena Angeliades and Michael Wieczorek, who also own Northport’s Greek spot Symi. Angeliades, her father, and sister purchased 49 Dairy Barn stores on Long Island 15 years ago. The family sold off a bunch of properties to new owners, while keeping stores in Merrick (which is independently owned, but allowed to use the company’s branding), Huntington, and more that are on tap to be reborn next year in Kings Park, Massapequa, Seaford and Selden.
Next up: Center Moriches, then Ronkonkoma. Stay tuned.
The Barn Patchogue, 227 Medford Ave., Patchogue; 631-730-5121; Open daily from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.
A global freelancer who has checked her suitcase to raise her young daughter on her native Long Island, Marie Elena will always make time for good mezcal, even better tacos and killer conversation. Preferably, in a corner bar seat. She can be found on Instagram at @mariesworldeats.
