Not Every Order Should Be a Delivery Order
Most guides to ordering food locally stop at the link. Tap here, pay, wait. That is fine until the morning you have eleven minutes before a call, or you are on the way to the ferry, or there are nine people in an office and one of them has been assigned breakfast.
At Pier 69 Market there are genuinely three different ways to get an order out of the building, and they are good at different things. Knowing which one fits the situation is the whole difference between food arriving the way it left the counter and food arriving twenty minutes past its best.
Delivery is the convenient option. Pickup is the fast one. Catering is the only one built for a crowd. Picking wrong is the most common mistake.
Option One: Delivery Through GetSauce
Delivery runs through GetSauce, which is the ordering system linked from the Order Online button on every page of this site. It carries the full menu rather than a trimmed-down version, so the coffee, the juices and the kitchen are all available in the same cart.
This is the right choice when you are not coming out. Working from home, locked into a meeting, an apartment on a rainy afternoon, a first floor with no one free to walk anywhere. You trade a little immediacy for not having to move, and for most orders that is a trade worth making.
One thing worth knowing: the ordering window follows the cafe, not an app. The counter runs 6 AM to 9 PM Monday through Friday and 7 AM to 9 PM on Saturday and Sunday, which is a wider window than most neighborhood kitchens offer at either end. A real 6 AM weekday breakfast order is possible, which the early morning crowd already knows, and so is a 9 PM one, which is the subject of the open late guide.
Option Two: Order Ahead and Pick Up
If you are anywhere within a few blocks of 10 Bay Ridge Ave, pickup usually wins. It removes the courier leg entirely, which means the food reaches you closer to the moment it was made and nothing sits in a bag waiting on a second trip.
The same GetSauce link handles pickup orders, so you can place the order from the sidewalk, from the desk, or from the train. For a quick coffee there is also the oldest method, which is simply calling (718) 777-6969. Phone orders are still the fastest path for something small, and the cafe does curbside pickup, so you can pull up outside, stay in the car, and have the order brought out. That is the version of this that matters most on a weekday morning, and it is covered in more detail in the parking and transit guide.
When Pickup Is Clearly the Better Call
- You want something hot. A hot sandwich or a burger is at its best closest to the counter.
- You are passing by anyway. On the way to the R train, the NYC Ferry landing, or Owls Head Park.
- You are in a hurry. Ordering ahead and walking in is nearly always quicker than waiting for a round trip.
- You are taking it outside. A park bench order is a pickup order by definition.
Option Three: Catering, for Anything Feeding a Group
There is a point where a delivery order stops being the right tool, and it arrives earlier than people expect. Somewhere around six or eight people, the problem changes from ordering to planning: headcount, timing, setup, a drop-off that lands before the meeting rather than during it.
That is what catering exists for. It is arranged in advance rather than on demand, which is exactly why it works for a group, and it is a conversation rather than a checkout flow. The office catering page covers how that runs for a local floor, the party catering page handles the social end, and office breakfast ideas is the practical version if you are the person who got volunteered.
Order However Suits the Morning
La Colombe coffee, Rishi tea and a made-from-scratch kitchen at 10 Bay Ridge Ave. Delivery and pickup online, curbside by phone, catering for anything bigger.
What Travels Well, and What Does Not
Anything made in a kitchen has a window, and some things have longer windows than others. This is not a reason to avoid delivery. It is a reason to order with it in mind.
Travels Exceptionally Well
Cold drinks are the most reliable thing in any delivery order. Cold brew, iced coffee, the smoothies and the pressed juices from the Juicery arrive essentially as they left, because nothing about them depends on being minutes old. If you have not sorted out cold brew versus iced coffee, that comparison matters more for delivery than it does at the counter, and the cold brew on tap piece explains why it holds up.
Salads and baked goods are in the same category. So, usefully, is anything headed for a smoothie or lighter lunch routine, which is why the midday delivery order tends to be the most satisfying one.
Better Fresh, Still Fine Local
Hot drinks, breakfast sandwiches, burgers from the Burger Factory and the pastas are all perfectly good on a short local run. They are also noticeably better the moment they are handed over, which is the single strongest argument for pickup if you are close enough to walk. A latte eight blocks away is a different drink than a latte at the counter, and there is no way around that except geography.
A Short Decision Rule
If you want the shortest possible version of this entire article:
- Feeding more than six people? Catering. Call ahead.
- Within a few blocks and want it hot? Order ahead for pickup, or call for curbside.
- Not leaving the building? Delivery through GetSauce, and lean cold if you can.
- Only need a coffee? Phone, curbside, done.
Four rules, and they cover almost every order that comes through the door. Everything else is a detail of the day you are having.
Where to Find Us
Pier 69 Market is at 10 Bay Ridge Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11220, on the Bay Ridge waterfront near Owls Head Park, open Monday through Friday from 6 AM to 9 PM and Saturday and Sunday from 7 AM to 9 PM. Delivery and pickup both run through GetSauce, curbside pickup is available by phone, and catering is arranged in advance. The full menu is worth reading before you order, the visit page has directions, a map and current hours, and the waterfront cafe page covers what is around us. Anything else is answered on the FAQ or by a call to (718) 777-6969.
