click to enlarge Margrit Wenzel Despite their .cafe domain extension, the new Stone Ridge establishment Black Dot resists classification. “We don’t really like to put ourselves in a box,” says co-owner Salvatore Carbone (Sal for short). “So we just called it Black Dot. Not Black Dot Cafe, not Black Dot Coffee Shop.” It’s just Black Dot, period. They do serve coffee, but that’s just part of it. The Black Dot experience, as the co-owners envision it, is part gallery, part coffee shop, part artisanal market, all aesthetic experience. click to enlarge Margrit Wenzel Owners Carbone and Margrit Wenzel, both 27, grew up in the Hudson Valley—he in Poughkeepsie, she in Kingston. They spent the past decade on the local hospitality circuit at hotels and restaurants like Scribner’s Catskill Lodge in Hunter and Brunette Wine Bar in Kingston, as well as managing short-term rentals. They’re also both artists—Carbone a graphic designer and Wenzel a photographer, who worked for a stint at Dia:Beacon.