New York Post

A café for folks with lotsa time

- By JENNIFER GOULD jgould@nypost.com

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, noted Sir Isaac Newton.

Behold: the Anti-Café has come to Brooklyn, borough of the $12 cup of coffee.

The concept, which hails from Russia and is popular across Europe, charges by the hour for unlimited coffee and snacks.

For $6 for the first hour, customers at Williamsbu­rg’s Glasshour can feast on coffee and snacks like granola bars. It’s 10 cents a minute after that up to $24 — and from that point, everything is on the house.

“It’s about communicat­ion over consumptio­n,” said Max Grigoryev, who funds trader-oriented dot-com startups and founded the cafe with three pals. “People are here all day. It’s a comfortabl­e place to work, we have high-speed WiFi, and people also come to sit and play games for hours.”

The 1,000-square-foot space at 63 Skillman Ave. seats 20 and can also be rented out for events.

If chicken soup is not enough to heal your mind and body, now comes Divya Kitchen at 25 First Ave.

It’s the city’s first, self-proclaimed Ayurverdic cafe, says chef-author Divya Alter, who has been running Ayurvedic cooking classes and meal delivery in the East Village for the past 10 years.

Her cookbook, “What to Eat for How You Feel,” published by Rizzoli, will be out in April.

The 1,400-square-foot eatery seats 50 and offers globally inspired, nourishing dishes from Italy, the Mediterran­ean, India and Asia.

Ayurveda is based on the combinatio­n of the Sanskrit words vata (ether), pitta (fire) and kapha (water) that makes up the human body and balances its life forces.

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