Our Story
New York had soda fountains on every corner.
Then it didn't.
"We didn't set out to open a business. We set out to get a good egg cream."
It started with a question: why is it so hard to find a real egg cream on Long Island? Not a novelty, not a brunch menu footnote — a proper one, made the way it was always made, by someone who cares. The answer, we found, was that the places that made them had mostly disappeared.
So we built Syrup & Seltzer — a mobile soda fountain that takes the classics seriously, makes everything from scratch, and brings it to wherever the people are gathering.
A Brief History
The New York Soda Fountain
1900s–1960s
The Golden Age
At its peak, New York City had thousands of soda fountains — in pharmacies, candy shops, and corner stores across every borough. The egg cream, invented in Brooklyn, became the city's unofficial drink. A glass cost a dime. The counterman knew your name.
1970s–1990s
The Disappearance
One by one, the fountains closed. Chains moved in, rents climbed, and the art of the hand-pulled seltzer faded from memory. By the turn of the millennium, fewer than a handful of the originals remained.
2020s
The Revival
Two brothers — obsessed with food history, house-made syrups, and the particular pleasure of a perfectly carbonated drink — decided the soda fountain deserved a second life. Not a museum piece. A living thing, on wheels, across the island. From Brooklyn to Lynbrook were bringing back the classics!
The People Behind It
Two Lynbrook Brothers with a cart and a recipe.
We grew up in New York, in families that remembered the fountains. When we finally decided to do something about the egg cream problem, we started the way the old fountains did — with a good recipe, a small space, and a lot of seltzer.
The cart came first. Then the house syrups. Then the coffee program. We're still figuring out the rest — but the egg cream has been right from day one.
What We Stand For
How we do it
The Classics, Done Right
Fox's U-Bet. Whole milk. Fresh-pulled seltzer. We don't reinvent the egg cream — we honor it.
House-Made Everything
Every syrup is made in small batches from real ingredients. Seasonal, rotating, and never from a bottle.
Mobile by Design
We go where the city is — farmers markets, block parties, private events. The fountain comes to you.
Brooklyn Roots
We source from Brooklyn roasters, local farms, and the same suppliers the old fountains used when they could.
Come find us.
We're out and about Long Island most weekends — farmers markets, pop-ups, and private events. Check the schedule to find us near you, or see the full menu.