Juice Bar Near Me in Bed-Stuy: BKLYN Blend on Tompkins Avenue

BKLYN Blend opened in January 2016 at 194 Tompkins Avenue in Bed-Stuy, in a space that used to be a 99-cent store, and almost everything on its menu is named for a Brooklyn place. A 12-ounce cold-pressed Bed-Stuy Beet costs $7.99 on the shop's own ordering page, which makes it one of the better-value answers to juice bar near me anywhere in the borough. The doors open at 8 am on weekdays and 9 am on weekends.

The shop has four co-founders: chef Edson Cooper, Keishon Warren, his father Ralph Warren, known to everyone as Pops, and Ali Coutard. When BK Reader profiled them in April 2019, the Warrens described building the interior themselves from reclaimed Brooklyn materials, including old building beams and planks from the Coney Island boardwalk. That wood is still the first thing you notice when you step in from Tompkins Avenue.

Keishon Warren told BK Reader that the culture they built is like a safe haven, and the shop's website describes it as Black-owned and community-first. In September 2020 the partners opened a second store at 601 Livonia Avenue in East New York. Pops has his name on the menu too: the Ralph Ave shake, labeled Pop's Special, is the heaviest and most loaded thing they blend.

The second shop gives the founders a footprint in two very different parts of Brooklyn. BK Reader reported that the East New York store on Livonia Avenue opened on September 21, 2020, in the middle of the pandemic, with the same street-name menu. If you live closer to the 3 train than the G, it is the branch to use; the Tompkins Avenue original keeps the reclaimed boardwalk counter and is the one most people mean when they recommend the shop.

The cold-pressed fridge is the quick option. Bed-Stuy Beet blends beet, carrot, apple, orange and lemon, and the Crown Heights Cold Buster combines orange, ginger, grapefruit, lemon and pineapple. Both are $7.99 for 12 ounces. The two-ounce Greene Ave Ginger Shot is $5.50 and hits hard enough that most people sip it at the counter instead of carrying it out.

Fresh-pressed juices, made to order behind the counter, cost $8.50. On a recent Saturday the ordering page marked several as out of stock, so if a specific blend is the reason you came, check the Toast menu before you walk over. When produce runs low, the cold-pressed bottles in the fridge are the dependable fallback. The Toast page carries live stock flags on each item, so the list of fresh-pressed blends you see when the shop opens can be noticeably shorter by early afternoon, and the online menu is the quickest way to know what is actually available that day.

The smoothie list is where the shop's Caribbean and Southern influences show. The Marine Park shake blends soursop, sea moss, pumpkin seeds, vanilla and agave for $8.50, a combination you rarely see in a Manhattan juice chain. Greenwood Mango, also $8.50, mixes mango, pineapple, spinach, mango nectar and agave, while Canarsie Cranberry layers strawberries, blackberries, raspberries and cranberries.

Ralph Ave, at $9.50, is basically breakfast in a cup: cashews, oats, pumpkin seeds, granola, blueberries, bananas, sea moss, almonds, vanilla, spices and agave. Order it if you are skipping lunch. Skip it if you only want something light before the G train; the Greenwood Mango is the better choice there, cheaper and much less filling.

BKLYN Blend is a cafe as much as a juice bar. The Park Slope Salmon Sandwich costs $14.95, and the kitchen also turns out patties, which the website says are walk-in only. You cannot reserve them through the app, so the people in line at noon are often there for the patties rather than the juice.

Online orders run through Toast, and the shop also takes catering inquiries through a form on its site. Its Love Thy Community merchandise, shirts and hats printed with the shop's slogan, is sold alongside the drinks. NYC Tourism listed BKLYN Blend in its Five Borough Winners offers during the 2026 World Cup, a sign of how firmly the shop is now on the city's own map.

Weekday mornings bring a steady line of neighbors heading to the Myrtle-Willoughby G station, often ordering a cold-pressed bottle and leaving within two minutes. Late morning on Saturday is busier, with families coming from the park and friends meeting before brunch. The kitchen closes with the store at 6 pm every day, so it is a daytime stop rather than an after-work one.

If the line is out the door and you only need juice, order ahead on Toast and pick up when the app says it is ready. On days when the fresh-pressed blends sell out early, the 12-ounce cold-pressed bottles at $7.99 are the smarter buy anyway; they cost less and are already in the fridge.

Herbert Von King Park sits a short walk south on Marcy and Tompkins Avenues between Greene and Lafayette. NYC Parks says it was originally Tompkins Park and calls it one of the first parks in Brooklyn's history. It has the Almira Kennedy Coursey Amphitheatre and a cultural arts center, and its benches are a good place to finish a smoothie on a sunny morning.

Doing the park first and then the arepas makes a relaxed loop on foot through blocks of brownstone row houses.

Address: 194 Tompkins Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11206, in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Subway: Myrtle-Willoughby Avenues on the G, about a five-minute walk. Hours: Monday to Friday 8 am to 6 pm, Saturday and Sunday 9 am to 6 pm. Second store: 601 Livonia Avenue, East New York.

Prices from the Tompkins Avenue Toast menu: cold-pressed 12-ounce juices $7.99, fresh-pressed juices $8.50, Greene Ave Ginger Shot $5.50, most smoothies $8.50, Ralph Ave shake $9.50, Park Slope Salmon Sandwich $14.95. Patties are walk-in only. Ordering is through Toast, and catering requests go through the website.