Pause Cafe

About Pause Cafe

Pause Cafe is a cafe you'll find at 3 Clinton St in New York, New York. It's part of our guide to 5,477 restaurants, cafes and bars in New York.

Pause Cafe is open daily, 7:00 AM – 6:00 PM.

The menu we have on file lists 350 items across 22 sections, including CUSTOM SALAD, SANDWICHES, SALAD BAR, BREAKFAST BRUNCH, and HOT COFFEE BAR. Listed prices range from $0.95 to $80.00, with a typical item around $5.50. Menu highlights include Custom Your Own Salad, TOFUSION, and Sahara.

Service options include outdoor seating, no-contact delivery, delivery, onsite services, takeout, and dine-in. Visitors describe the atmosphere as casual, cozy, quiet, and trendy, and it is a good fit for tourists. The place is family-friendly. It is especially popular for breakfast, lunch, and solo dining. Offerings include coffee, comfort food, healthy options, prepared foods, and quick bite.

Accessibility features: wheelchair accessible seating and wheelchair accessible parking lot. Payment methods accepted: credit cards, debit cards, and NFC mobile payments. Parking: free street parking and paid street parking. Reservations are accepted; call (212) 677-5415 to book a table.

Quick facts

Category

Cafe · Moroccan, Coffee, Breakfast

Address

3 Clinton St, New York, NY 10002

Phone

(212) 677-5415

Price range

$10 to $20 per person

Hours

Open daily, 7:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Menu

350 items · $0.95–$80.00

Listing updated

May 2026 · Suggest an edit

How the hours compare

We compared Pause Cafe’s weekday schedule with 227 other cafes in New York. On a typical weekday it opens at 7:00 AM, close to the local norm of 7:30 AM and closes at 6:00 PM, in line with the typical 7:00 PM.

In total it is open about 77 hours a week, about the same as the local median (75 hours). 91% of cafes in New York open on Sundays, and Pause Cafe is one of them.

Compared with 227 other cafes in New York that list their hours in our guide.

• Custom Your Own Salad$9.00

  Comes with 4 Veggies, bread and dressing

• TOFUSION$15.00

  Firm Tofu, Tomato, Cucumber, Avocado, Sesame Seeds, Hummus And Pesto Sauce

• Sahara$14.00

  Homamde Hummus, Grilled Zucchini, Asparagus, Eggplant, Pepper, Mushroom, Mixed Olives,Zaatar With Extra…

• Bagel And Lox$15.00

  Lox, Cream Cheese, Capers, Tomato, Red Onion, Avocado,

• Flat White$4.75

  Double Shot of espresso with steam milk and Micro Foam

• Sparkling Water Saratoga$3.50
• ICED DIRTY CHAI LATTE$7.00
• Fresh Cut Fruits$6.00

  Homemade

• COLD PRESSED JUICES$10.00

  Cold pressed - Raw - Vegan - No Preservatives GLASS BOTTLES

• Muffin$4.25

  Homemade

Typical prices for cafes in New York

Based on 72 menus with 5,704 priced items from cafes in New York, the median menu item costs $9.25, and half of all items are priced between $5.00 and $14.00.

At Pause Cafe the median listed price is $5.50, lower than the typical $9.25 for cafes in New York.

Calculated from 72 menus in our guide. Prices vary by location and change over time.

Features & amenities

The neighborhood

Within a 10-minute walk (half a mile) of Pause Cafe there are 507 other places to eat and drink in our guide, and 1,327 within one mile. By type, the places within a mile include Cafes & Coffee (221), Bars & Pubs (186), Chinese (135), and Bakeries & Desserts (89).

Competition is strong: 86 other cafes are within a mile and 301 within three miles. The closest is Gaia Italian Cafè, 0.1 mi away.

536 places within a mile stay open until 10 PM or later on at least one night a week, so this is a good area for a late meal.

Nearest places of other kinds

• PizzaBiga Bite< 0.1 mi
• Latin American & CaribbeanAriel's Latin Bistro< 0.1 mi
• ThaiOne More Thai< 0.1 mi
• Sandwiches & DelisHeaven's Hot Bagel< 0.1 mi
• Bars & PubsBrick< 0.1 mi

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