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“Mystery” solved. As one of our readers commented on a previous post, Starbucks recently purchased two $11,000 Clover brewers for who knows what unholy purposes. However, today Bloomberg reported that Starbucks is testing them in at least one of their Seattle retail stores: Bloomberg.com: Exclusive - Starbucks Tests $2.50 Premium Coffee to Boost Sales.
Between this [...]

Tags: clover_brewer, cup_of_excellence, seattle_cafes, siphon_bars, Starbucks

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As Stumptown Coffee Roasters plans to invade Seattle, today’s Seattle Weekly published an amusing letter of distress from a reader concerned about the coming potential clash of Northwest espresso cultures: Uptight Seattleite: Why This Unfair Prejudice Against Skateboarders? (Seattle Weekly).
The writer also categorizes the local shot pullers in two distinct families:

The Starbucks family, which includes [...]

Tags: caffe_vita, peets_coffee, portland_coffee, seattle_cafes, seattle_coffee, Starbucks, stumptown, tullys_coffee, victrola, vivace

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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 [...]

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Today’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported on the eventual paving over of David Schomer’s Capitol Hill Espresso Vivace: Whirr of Espresso Vivace soon silenced by new rail.
With a new Westlake-to-University District line Seattle rail service planned beneath Broadway on Capitol Hill, Vivace’s Denny Way location — open since 1988 — will be bulldozed and replaced by the [...]

Tags: david_schomer, espresso_vivace, seattle_cafes

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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. [...]

Tags: espresso_vivace, seattle_cafes, seattle_coffee, tullys_coffee, zoka_coffee

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Today’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer featured an article on the latest espresso bar opened by Espresso Vivace in the Cascade neighborhood of Seattle: Retail Notebook: Espresso Vivace is 1st tenant in new retail/office complex.
Now opening its third coffeehouse, Espresso Vivace is one of the best places to order an espresso in North America. Its owner, David Schomer, [...]

Tags: books, david_schomer, espresso_vivace, seattle_cafes

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