After a building sale threatened its storefront, May Carroll’s The Moss & Green reopens in Williamsburg with a matcha café
The GoFundMe that neighbor Rachel Swanson started for The Moss & Green in 2025 stands at $2,901 of its $50,000 goal. The new flagship at 169 North 9th Street will serve Uji matcha and warabi mochi drinks.
After a building sale threatened its storefront, May Carroll’s The Moss & Green reopens in Williamsburg with a matcha café
The GoFundMe that neighbor Rachel Swanson started for The Moss & Green in 2025 stands at $2,901 of its $50,000 goal. The new flagship at 169 North 9th Street will serve Uji matcha and warabi mochi drinks.
The café will serve matcha from Uji, Kyoto, alongside original drinks made with warabi mochi, a traditional Japanese confection. The botanical studio carries handcrafted kokedama and curated plants, and the space is furnished with a mix of Kyoto and Western antiques for a warm, lived-in feel.
The menu includes several signature drinks, PatchBushwick reported: the Moss Garden, a matcha latte with kuromitsu warabi mochi; the Kyoto Temple, a hojicha latte with kuromitsu hojicha warabi mochi; After The Rain, Earl Grey tea with matcha and Earl Grey warabi mochi; and the Ume Summer Tonic, sencha tea with Japanese pickled plum and tonic water.
Unlike the chewy, rice-based mochi familiar to many Americans, warabi mochi is made from bracken fern starch and has…
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