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FAO Café – Midtown East

$7 for $14 Worth of Coffee, Cupcakes, and Ice Cream

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Highlights

  • Café within world-famous FAO Schwarz toy store
  • Popular Sarah's Cupcakes
  • Bassetts ice cream & shakes

The Fine Print

  • Expires Jan 12, 2012
  • Limit 1 per person, may buy 2 additional as gifts. Limit 1 per visit. Must purchase 1 food item.
  • See the rules that apply to all deals.

Desserts are the toys of the food world, able to cheer up even the grumpiest child after a long day of jury duty. Hear no objections with today's Groupon: for $7, you get $14 worth of coffee, cupcakes, and ice cream at FAO Cafe, located inside FAO Schwarz.

FAO Cafe, where palate owners take in the flavor of handmade desserts and sugar-sprinkled coffee drinks, sits within the treasure troves at world-famous toy store FAO Schwarz. Guests can marvel at Sarah's Cupcakes ($4.50), which crumble under the weight of teeth faster than a bolt of lightning shot out of a cannon. Put make-believe tea-party skills to use with coffees from illy, which harvests arabica beans from South America, Central America, India, and Africa to conjure lattes ($4.10–$5.10), espressos ($2.60–$4.10), and cappuccinos ($3.85–$4.85). FAO Cafe's kitchen team also puts out a spread of locally crafted Doughnut Plant donuts ($3.50–$3.75), which are made from scratch and enough mental focus to ignore a nearby refrigerator morphing into a person. Visitors can also nibble other taste-bringers such as ice cream, shakes, cookies, and brownies.

Groupon Says

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The Groupon Guide to: Pilgrim Rhymes

Most schoolchildren learn about the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony from a series of mnemonic rhymes. Here's a look at how well these couplets hold up to historical scrutiny:

The Rhyme: They hunted turkey for work-y/And for chuckles they ate their own buckles.
True or False? While it is true that most of the Pilgrims were employed by the Dutch East India Company as turkey trappers, there is little historical evidence to suggest that the Pilgrims ate their own buckles for fun—it's more likely they ate the buckles for their high iron content.

The Rhyme: Seeking freedom of thought/On the Mayflower they fought/Millions and millions of mermen.
True or False? The Pilgrims were actually already free to practice their religion at their settlement in Holland, and their reason for coming to America had more to do with cultural identity than freedom to worship. Also, the mermen are thought to be apocryphal.

The Rhyme: If you fall asleep covered in mud/The Pilgrims appear to eat all your blood.
True or False? Every mother warns her children that if they refuse to take their bath, a vengeful band of Pilgrims will materialize to extract a terrifying revenge. This is true, but you can also trigger the appearance of the bloodthirsty Pilgrims simply by reading the word "Pilgrim" nine times in the course of a day.

Was the Mayflower attacked by mermen?

FAO Café

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    Midtown East

    767 5th Ave.
    Manhattan, New York 10153
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