Banana milk coffee is your autumn obsession
If you are already sick of the PSL, don't despair. There is a newer, cooler kid on the block ready to take the spotlight.
Meet banana milk coffee, a combination of bananas, milk, cold brew coffee and simple syrup. It's creamy, sweet and now available at Brooklyn's J+B Design & Cafe.
Store manager Fumio Tashiro tells Eater the idea for the drink came from reading an article about Brazilian banana drinks. Though the banana milk coffee has been on the menu for a year, it's only recently started to take off. He currently sells about 50 of them per week, at $5 each.
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Without the coffee kick, banana-flavored milk is popular in Japan and blending bananas with water to create "milk" is common in Korea.
This drink is vegetarian, coffee based and has potassium and other nutrients from the banana. Is it destined to become this year's matcha or just a flash in the pan, à la Orbitz?
Only time and your coffee-obsessed roommate will tell.
Sarah Spigelman Richter is a contributor to Mashable's Food channel. Sarah covers everything edible, from the food industry to D.I.Y. recipes. She was previously the community manager for Tastemade NYC and her writing has been seen on The Today Show's food blog, Refinery 29, the Food Network, and Gothamist. She has also developed recipes for Tabasco and other nationally recognized brands and has blogged for 5 years at "Fritos and Foie Gras." Sarah is obsessed with "Orphan Black" and chili-cheese Fritos and is still depressed that Loehmann's closed.
