Seattle, cup by steaming cup: A coffee tour
Posted by TheShot on 01 May 2006 | Tagged as: Foreign Brew
The Great Escapes Web site, part of the Los Angeles Newspaper Group, posted a “Culinary Traveler” article yesterday on a Seattle tour of coffee: Seattle, cup by steaming cup: A coffee tour. (The article was also printed in yesterday’s Long Beach Press-Telegram). The Web site even provides an interactive Flash tour.
Seattle is a coffee-obsessed town. But outside of a few places that truly do make some of the best espresso in the country — to perhaps peel back the Seattle myth for a moment — most of the coffee people drink here is no better than what people drink anywhere else. Hence I am unsure how a travel writer could pen an article on Seattle coffee while wholly neglecting to mention Zoka Coffee and Espresso Vivace, for example. But no matter.
Included in the article are mentions of the Elliott Bay Book Co., The Essential Bakery Cafe, Le Panier, Zeitgeist Coffee, Edmonds’ Waterfront Coffee Company, and, oddly enough, Tully’s Coffee. Perhaps calling this a coffee shop tour would have been more appropriate. It’s certainly not the list I’d choose, so use at your own risk.
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on 08 Sep 2006 at 3:18 pm -05:00T 1.TheShot.coffeeratings.com » Smaller coffeehouses thrive in Seattle said …
[...] Today’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer published an article espousing the virtues of Seattle’s many smaller coffeehouses: Smaller coffeehouses thrive in Seattle. Seattle may be famous for the big, bad Starbucks, but there are many local favorites that aim to be “Porsche instead of Ford” (i.e., Zoka Coffee), and they have managed to thrive over the years in the shadow of the green giant. [...]