Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf's Empire Expands With 3rd Outpost On Upper West Side

The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf is spreading across NYC with an almost Starbucksian appetite for expansion: the wildly popular LA-based chain has just opened its third location in Manhattan, on the corner of 79th Street and Columbus Avenue. This new outpost arrives barely a month after CBTL began pouring over on 86th and Amsterdam. (The first NYC location opened Broadway at 39th Street last August.) But unlike its NYC predecessors, this new spot has a "sit-down restaurant vibe" with table service, an expanded food menu, and, come spring, an outdoor patio....