Results tagged “coffeeshop”

Over at the Big Blog, they're weighing in on the pseudo-debate over whether laptop users who camp out at coffeeshops are a rising tide with the unemployment rate that threatens to swamp coffeeshops who'd prefer their table be used by paying customers for a more reasonable amount of time.

Even in tough times, there are entrepreneurs ready to start a new business. Today is the second day of business for Porchlight Coffee on 14th between Pike and Pine on Capital Hill. Owner Zack Bolotin, 22, is serving up a nice blend of coffees (including iced), teas and bagels and pastries. He's open seven days a week, weekdays 7:00 am to 7:00 pm, Saturdays 8:00 am to 7:00 pm, and Sundays 8:00 am to 6:00 pm. Stop in a grab a cup. We'll all beat this recession one latte at a time.

• A Redmond-based firm's high-tech biomaterial is being used to treat dogs with glaucoma, reports TechFlash.
• Rainier Valley Post has a story about a woman whose laptop was stolen right out of her lap as she was working in a Southend coffeeshop.
• CHS is celebrating the release of a new infographic (!!) showing the busiest pedestrian areas of downtown, and wishing we had the same kind of map for the Hill.

Despite closing stores all over the world, Starbucks announced today they'll be opening their first non-airport store in Amsterdam in 2009. Sadly, the mermaid has decided not to go the traditional Amsterdam coffee shop route, which means no Purple Haze with your Frappucino, folks.

At least not in Mason County. County officials have declared the barely-dressed baristas at local coffee stand Espresso Gone Wild are actually "erotic entertainers." Since the coffee stand is not zoned for erotic entertainment, the baristas are going to have to put some clothes on or close shop. Would you support the "stripper or barista" trend if it came to Seattle? Or do you prefer your coffee-puller fully-clothed?

During tomorrow night's three hour nation-wide Starbucks closure, local coffee shop Caffe Vita will be giving away free coffee and espresso drinks. Yes coffee fiends of Seattle--so that's basically all of you--that's good free coffee, just because the big chain that you feel slightly embarrassed about going to is closed. Lovely!

The local deliciousness that is Top Pot Doughnuts has opened a new neighborhood location. Queen Anne has been blessed (truly) with the fourth installation of the local doughnut and coffee shop. The new location had its grand opening this week, with hopes to create a whole new neighborhood of Feather Boa addicts.

The highlight is you get to live, subsidized, in one of the “Hugo Huts”—Seattle’s historic Belltown Cottages. The rent subsidy doesn't include utilities, jackets with worn corduroy patches on the elbows, or afternoon drinks at Black Bottle.

Speaking of snappish baristas, this weekend we stopped by a neighborhood coffeeshop we've been visiting since 2003, and handed over a prepaid card good for our usual drink. A new-ish barista took it, looked it over, looked us over, sighed a little, and -- as if he were doing us a favor -- checked off one of the drinks. "You know," he said, "these cards are supposed to be signed by the baristas when they're sold. Yours isn't. So...if you ever buy one and it isn't signed, could you remind the barista to sign it?"

Seattlest wishes it was at a coffee shop on Saturday, when the snow was falling in swift, wet flakes. We imagine sipping a delicious doppio espresso, protected from the cold and watching the snow fall. Instead, we are braving the pouring rain and have ended up here, in Fremont, at Cafe Ladro. We're wet, cold and crabby. Ladro is bustling with the young professionals crowd. An entire table of six is covered in laptops, another...

It's pouring rain and it's exhausting looking for a new hard drive, so we pull over on Greenwood Avenue, right in front of Herkimer Coffee. It's bustling with people, despite the rain, and we anticipate a long wait. To our surprise, the line moves lightening fast and we're soon faced with two adorable and cheerful baristas. If you want to feel trendy without being surly or "holier than thou," Herkimer Coffee is your place. Although...

We love the Frontier Frittata Bagel Sandwich at Frontier Café. We proved it here. Its tantalizing taste that embraces all things dairy and flour keeps us moving in the morning. With this in mind on our way to work, we were more than animated to receive a free espresso coupon from the kind employees at Frontier Café as we walked into our building on 3rd and Cherry, (we do NOT condone soliciting buildings with advertisements that usually end up a soggy doormat, but in the case of free coffee, we’ll make an exception). The original Belltown café wants to alert coffee lovers close the edges of Pioneer Square that a new coffee shop is in town serving Vivace Espresso -- “Downtowns Best Espresso.” Hmm, this was intriguing. We are Cherry Street Coffee House regulars and frequent visitors to Pegasus, so the competition is stiff. Vivace roasts a nice coffee bean, so we gave it a try.

Biodiesel drivers rejoice! There's a new place to fill your French-fry-smelling tanks thanks to Dr. Dan's Alternative Fuelwerks grand opening of a new, and may we say much more accessible, location, in the Ravenna neighborhood on Friday.

On our way out of Kirkland, we decide to stroll along the waterfront. While stepping through an alley (as dubious as they get in downtown Kirkland), we hear indie-acoustic music coming from the cappuccino haven on Seattle’s Eastside, Kahili Coffee. Without hesitation, we advance.

For those (like Seattlest) who are too lazy to actually visit in person the South Lake Union coffee shop Kapow! to get their S.L.U.T. tee shirts (which they may or may not even have), they are now available online.

Funny picture just turned up in the Seattlest Flickr Pool:

We're up late on a Sunday morning and find ourselves riding the #17 through a lovely residential neighborhood in North Seattle. We round a corner and see Caffe Fiore.A coffee shop? Time to ring the bell and jump off the bus.

Last week was a bad one for pioneers and philosophers of our favorite beverages. On Thursday, beer (and liquor) guru Michael Jackson passed away at 65. A day earlier, Alfred Peet, founder of Peet’s Coffee, died in his Ashland, Oregon home. He was 87.

Lottie's Lounge, located in Colombia City, is a coffee shop, diner and bar, rolled into one. It's an experiential panacea for those who like to center their lives around one neighborhood joint-- not that Colombia City doesn't already have a lot going on. Lottie's is smack dab in the middle of a re-gentrifying neighborhood, filled with junk stores, boutiques, dive bars and...Starbucks.

Rachel Hynes is a former barista and yet still enjoys spending time in espresso places. She reviews them for us.

... and a $50 gift card.

Rifling through the remains of the house's cookbook library (which was amassed sometime in the 50's when it was used as the high school's home ec facility), we came across a promotional brochure from the Vermont Maple Promotion Board. It gave information about maple trees and sugar houses (it takes 35 gallons of sap to make just one gallon of delicious Vermont maple syrup!) and a few maple-laden recipes, a surprising number of which actually sounded good.

South Lake Union is currently under water after a 20" main was broken by contractors this morning. Some businesses in the area aren't getting water and the area around Harrison and Dexter is flooded.

Who knew such bitter emotion roiled beneath the placid surface of the local independent baking industry?

Our own Madame Hooky divines whether it's worth calling in sick Friday and heading for the slopes. She'll conjure your excuse and tell you where to go.

It's like we were just saying about Starbucks the other day, only if we were the Washington Post instead of a city blog:

For most Seattleites, what Schultz called "the watering down of the Starbucks experience" is stale news -- akin to reports that the Seattle SuperSonics (which Schultz sold last year) are a losing National Basketball Association team or that Seattle winters are wet.

Continue reading "Victrola & Fuel Winning Battle For Espresso Soul Says Post"

the "sterile" and "cookie-cutter" nature that Schultz bemoans.

Paula Abdul wouldn’t be as thrilled to discover an extra Vicodin stashed in her bangs as we were to meet our favorite band’s drummer at our favorite coffee shop this weekend.

No, not the game company. (We'd love to know how many hours Cranium's lawyers spent agonizing over Cranium's Collectibles, though. And whether or not Cranium will be buying craniums.com.)