All City Coffee

We step out of the dank cold and into All City Coffee in Georgetown. Two of the four walls are huge, storefront windows and the interior is white, enabling All City Coffee to transcend the dreary gray and uplift the spirits with light. As light as the flies that buzz over the eclectic furniture ranging from shabby chic to modern. A motorcycle chick chats with a dad as his kid turns somersaults on the sofa as peppy rock plays loudly over the speakers.

We whiz to the front of the line to meet speedy, no-nonsense baristas, full of purpose. We like them. We order toasted bagels, and one points us to two toasters, where you can toast your bagel the way you like it.

The lattes are delicious, the milk lightly sweet, as it gets with really good aeration and the espresso is dark and biting (thank you roasters Café Vita!). We pick up sections of someone's newspaper strewn across the table and read about sports and home decorating, mostly just to put off having to go back into the gloomy, gloomy day.

All City Coffee
1205 South Vale Street
Seattle, WA 98108