Coffee in Seattle

People in Seattle consume more coffee than in any other American city; one study stated that there are 35 coffee shops per 100,000 residents and that Seattle people spend an average of $36 a month on coffee.{{cite news |url= http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/07/27/coffee-capitals-20-cities-that-drink-the-most-caffeine.html |title=Coffee Capitals: 20 Cities That Drink the Most Caffeine |work=The Daily Beast |date=27 July 2010 |access-date=14 November 2011}} It is nearly impossible to walk past a single block in a commercial area in Seattle without walking past at least one coffee shop. Coffee drinkers can get coffee at a local sidewalk stand, parking lot, tiny coffee houses, big coffee houses, drive-through, and even delivery.{{cite news| url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/coffeecity/index.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090505204953/http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/coffeecity/index.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=May 5, 2009 | work=The Seattle Times | title=Coffee City}}

Several Seattle Ethiopian restaurants carry forward one or another degree of Ethiopian coffee tradition, which includes doing their own roasting. These include the Jebena Cafe in Pinehurst, Kaffa Coffee & Wine Bar in the Rainier Valley,Naomi Tomky, [http://www.thestranger.com/pullout/thesauce/2015/10/14/23001479/seattles-other-coffee-culture Seattle's Other Coffee Culture], The Stranger, 2015-10-13. Accessed 2015-10-23. and Adey Abeba in the Central District.Julia Wayne, [http://seattle.eater.com/maps/best-seattle-ethiopian-restaurants 8 Fantastic Ethiopian Restaurants Around Seattle], Seattle Eater, 2015-09-17. Accessed 2015-10-23.

In the early 2000s in Seattle a coffee concept called the bikini barista began to be implemented by various marketers throughout the area. Coffee distribution in this business model utilizes baristas wearing little clothing to prepare and serve the coffee.{{cite news | url= https://www.cbsnews.com/news/shedding-clothes-and-selling-coffee/ | title= Shedding Clothes And Selling Coffee | author= Caitlin A. Johnson | work=CBS News | date= February 18, 2007 | access-date=March 9, 2010}}

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Numerous coffee roasting companies are headquartered in Seattle, including:

• QED Coffee{{cite web |title=In Seattle A Math Inspired Cafe Where It All Adds Up |url=https://sprudge.com/in-seattle-a-math-inspired-cafe-where-it-all-adds-up-83299.html |website=Sprudge}}
• Anchorhead Coffee
• Conduit Coffee Roasters{{cite web |title=Seattle Area Coffee Roasters |url=https://seattlecoffeescene.com/seattle-area-coffee-roasters/ |website=Seattle Coffee Scene}}
• Fonté Coffee Roasters
• Fulcrum Coffee
• River Trail Roasters
• Caffè Umbria
• Torrefazione Italia
• Fremont Coffee Company
• Herkimer Coffee[https://herkimercoffee.com Herkimer Coffee website]
• Kuma Coffee
• Caffe Appassionato
• Caffe Ladro
• Top Pot Coffee Roasters{{cite web |title=Coffee |url=https://www.toppotdoughnuts.com/pages/coffee |website=Top Pot Doughnuts and Coffee |language=en}}
• Victrola Coffee Roasters{{cite journal|last=Borg|first=Shannon|title=Seattle Coffee Guide: Locally Roasted Beans|date=October 2010|issue=Coffee: How Seattle Built a Culture|url=http://www.seattlemag.com/article/seattle-coffee-guide-locally-roasted-beans|access-date=15 November 2011}}
• Lighthouse Roaster,
• Zoka Coffee Roaster and Tea Company

Storyville Coffee also operates within the Seattle metropolitan area.

Starbucks is Seattle's largest coffee retailer. It was founded in 1971 in Pike Place Market as a roaster, but only later became an espresso bar. In 1984 ownership of the company changed and Howard Schultz led a massive international expansion of the company.{{cite book|last=Schultz|first=Howard|title=Pour your heart into it : how Starbucks built a company one cup at a time|year=1997|publisher=Hyperion|location=New York, N.Y.|isbn=978-0-7868-6315-0|edition=1st paperback|pages=[https://archive.org/details/pouryourheartint00howa/page/100 100]–104|author2=Yang, Dori Jones|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/pouryourheartint00howa}} In 2003, Starbucks acquired pioneering Seattle roaster Seattle's Best Coffee (SBC, originally Stewart Brothers' Coffee).

Tully's Coffee was at one time Seattle's second-largest coffee retailer. As of March 2018 there no longer are any Tully’s retail locations in the United States. Tom Tully O'Keefe founded the chain in Kent, Washington in 1992 to rival the expansion of Starbucks with an alternative business model.{{cite news |url= http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002185126_tullys20.html |title=Business & Technology | Tully's Coffee: A brand that belies its size |first=Monica Soto |last=Ouchi| work=seattletimes.nwsource.com |date=20 February 2005 |access-date=14 November 2011}}

File:Caffe Vita.jpg]]Caffe Vita Coffee Roasting Company was founded in 1995 to produce excellent artisan coffee and to implement an ethical model for coffee production which bypassed the fair trade business model and sourced coffee beans directly from the farmers producing it.{{cite news | first = Tamra | last = Fitzpatrick | title = Finding Niche Brews Big-Time Success For Small Coffee Roaster | newspaper = The Seattle Times | date = March 26, 1999 | url = https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19990326/2951661/finding-niche-brews-big-time-success-for-small-coffee-roaster | access-date = 2010-09-23 }}

Espresso Vivace is a set of coffeehouses and a roaster. Founded in 1988Shannon Borg, [http://www.seattlemag.com/article/seattle-coffee-guide-locally-roasted-beans Seattle Coffee Guide: Locally Roasted Beans], Seattle Magazine, October 2010. Accessed 2015-10-23. by a Boeing engineer, the coffee is produced to exacting specifications to match the owner's taste and the taste of patrons who prefer this different blend.[http://www.espressovivace.com/archives/MSNBC-20030509.pdf Meet espresso's exacting master] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111116225915/http://www.espressovivace.com/archives/MSNBC-20030509.pdf |date=November 16, 2011 }} - Food Inc. - MSNBC.com, May 9, 2003

Portland-based Stumptown Coffee Roasters opened a roasting facility in Seattle in 2010.{{citation needed|date=October 2015}}

On October 6, 2015, it was announced that San Francisco-based Peet's Coffee (a division of JAB Holding Company of Germany, since 2012) would acquire Stumptown.The New York Times [https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/07/business/dealbook/peets-buys-stumptown-coffee-roasters.html Peet’s Buys Stumptown Coffee Roasters]

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Seattle coffeehouse culture includes chains, such as Starbucks, Tully's Coffee and Seattle's Best Coffee, alongside many independently owned coffee shops.{{cite web |url=http://www.coffeechainworld.com/ |title=Coffee Chain World - Coffee Business News, US Coffee Chains, World Coffee Chains, Largest Coffee Chains, Open a Coffee Shop |access-date=2011-12-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111228101824/http://www.coffeechainworld.com/ |archive-date=2011-12-28 }} Independently owned coffee shops include:{{cite news| url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2008125785_indiecoffee20.html | work=The Seattle Times | first=Melissa | last=Allison | title=Starbucks no longer gives small coffee shops the jitters | date=20 August 2008}}{{cite web |title=Best Independent Coffee Shops in Seattle |url=https://blog.noblehousehotels.com/best-independent-coffee-shops-seattle/ |website=Noble House Hotels & Resorts |date=24 April 2018 |access-date=September 27, 2020}}

• Analog Coffee
• Black Coffee Northwest
• Boon Boona Coffee
• Café Allegro
• Café Hagen
• Caffé D’arte
• Caffè Umbria
• Caffe Vita
• Cherry Street Coffee House
• Drinkmore Cafe
• Eastern Cafe
• Espresso Vivace
• Fuel Coffee & Books
• Ghost Alley Espresso
• Ghost Note Coffee
• Hello Em
• Kaladi Brothers Coffee
• Kitanda
• Leon Coffee House
• Monorail Espresso
• Moore Coffee
• Mr. West Cafe Bar
• Overcast Coffee Company
• Pegasus Coffee Company
• Phin
• Push x Pull
• Top Pot Doughnuts
• Elm Coffee Roasters
• QED Coffee
• URL Coffee
• Victrola
• Wunderground Coffee
• Zeitgeist Coffee
• Zoka Coffee

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Café Allegro is a coffeeshop in University District. Its founder worked with Starbucks roasters to develop the original Starbucks espresso roast, which is darker than most other roasts but still lighter than the darkest roast. That espresso roast remains the standard Starbucks espresso offering, but it was developed for Café Allegro.

The Last Exit on Brooklyn was a coffee house which opened in 1967 and closed in 2000. It was a gathering place for high-level chess players and intellectuals, and the proprietor worked to "create a haven where students and the benign crazies" were welcome and where "everyone felt equal and there were no sacred cows"."Last Exit, many returns: 20 years and many fads later, laid back U District coffeehouse show no signs of slowing down", Seattle Times, June 20, 1987, p. E1.

Top Pot Doughnuts was founded in 2002 on Capitol Hill as a pastry bakery which also roasts and sells coffee.{{cite web |url=http://www.toppotdoughnuts.com/about-us.html |title=About Us : Top Pot Hand-Forged Doughnuts |first= |last= |work=toppotdoughnuts.com |year=2011 |access-date=14 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110813070142/http://www.toppotdoughnuts.com/about-us.html |archive-date=13 August 2011 |url-status=dead }} It has since expanded to locations across the Puget Sound region and Dallas, Texas.

A precursor to Top Pot Doughnuts; Bauhaus Strong Coffee was founded on October 5, 1993,{{cite news |date=October 17, 2013 |title=Bauhaus Coffee and Books finally opens up in Ballard |url=http://www.ballardnewstribune.com/2013/10/17/features/bauhaus-coffee-and-books-finally-opens-ballar |newspaper=Ballard News-Tribune |access-date=December 17, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151218035521/http://www.ballardnewstribune.com/2013/10/17/features/bauhaus-coffee-and-books-finally-opens-ballar |archive-date=December 18, 2015 |url-status=dead }} and is notable for an unusual coffeehouse space design, which the Top Pot Doughnuts co-founders later applied to its design.{{cite journal|last1=Brangien |first1=Davis |first2=Sheila |last2=Mickool |first3=Matthew |last3=Amster-Burton |title=Seattle Coffee Guide: The Iconic shops |journal=Seattle |date=October 2010 |url=http://www.seattlemag.com/article/seattle-coffee-guide-iconic-shops |access-date=November 15, 2011}} While the original location closed on October 5, 2013, a new Capitol Hill location later opened that year, following two new locations in Ballard and Green Lake. All three were closed abruptly on December 13, 2015.{{cite news |last=Graf |first=Heather |date=December 11, 2015 |title=Bauhaus Coffee going out of business |url=http://www.king5.com/story/news/local/bellevue/2015/12/11/bauhaus-coffee-going-out-of-business/77135888/ |work=KING-TV |access-date=December 17, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151218035343/http://www.king5.com/story/news/local/bellevue/2015/12/11/bauhaus-coffee-going-out-of-business/77135888/ |archive-date=December 18, 2015 |url-status=dead }}{{cite news |last=Garbes |first=Angela |date=December 11, 2015 |title=Emotions Run High at Ballard's Bauhaus Coffee, Which Is Closing Forever Because of "Financial Difficulties" |url=http://www.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/2015/12/11/23258019/emotions-run-high-at-ballards-bauhaus-coffee-which-is-closing-forever-because-of-financial-difficulties |newspaper=The Stranger |access-date=December 17, 2015}} Owner Joel Radin filed bankruptcy in February 2017.{{Cite web|url=http://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2016/04/capitol-hill-fooddrink-the-bauhaus-bankruptcy/|title = Capitol Hill food+drink | the Bauhaus bankruptcy|date = 7 April 2016}}

In 2007 the Coffee Equipment Company released a product called the Clover, which was a machine which brewed coffee one cup at a time. The company was acquired by Starbucks who now produces the Clover.{{cite web |url= http://www.starbucks.com/coffee/learn/clover |title=The Clover Brewing System |first= |last= |work=starbucks.com |year=2011 |access-date=14 November 2011}}

Coffee: World in your Cup is the name of an exhibition and community series which premiered in Seattle through most of 2009 at the Burke Museum. The exhibition includes displays of equipment at the museum and a lecture series with talks in various locations wherein experts talk about aspects of the coffee industry.{{cite web |url=http://www.burkemuseum.org/static/coffee/index.php |title=Coffee: The World in Your Cup - Burke Museum |work=burkemuseum.org |year=2009 |access-date=14 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111012024845/http://www.burkemuseum.org/static/coffee/index.php |archive-date=12 October 2011 |url-status=dead }}

The World Barista Championship was held in Seattle in April 2015.{{citation|title=Say Hello to the 2015 U.S. Coffee Championship Winners|author=Nick Brown | date=February 23, 2015|work=Daily Coffee News|type=website|publisher=Roast Magazine|url=http://dailycoffeenews.com/2015/02/23/say-hello-to-the-2015-u-s-coffee-championship-winners/}} The competition, and its winner Sasa Sestic, were the subject of a documentary film The Coffee Man.{{citation|title=The Coffee Man: A Documentary on 2015 World Barista Champion Sasa Sestic|author=Howard Bryman | date=April 7, 2016|work=Daily Coffee News|type=website|publisher=Roast Magazine|url=http://dailycoffeenews.com/2016/04/07/the-coffee-man-a-documentary-on-2015-world-barista-champion-sasa-sestic/}}

In the NBC series Frasier, the characters are often seen drinking coffee at the fictional Café Nervosa, which is said to have been inspired by the real-life Elliott Bay Book Company.{{cite web|url=http://www.iamnotastalker.com/2010/10/14/elliott-bay-cafe-the-inspiration-for-cafe-nervosa-on-frasier/|title=Elliott Bay Cafe – The Inspiration for Cafe Nervosa on "Frasier"|date=14 October 2010|access-date=March 19, 2016}}

In The Sopranos, two episodes featured coffee shops based on Starbucks. "Our Cafe du jour is New Zealand Peaberry", says a barista, as Paulie Walnuts bemoans the acquisition of Italian coffee culture.

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