Seattle is regarded as a world center for coffee roasting and coffee supply chain management. Related to this, many Seattle-area people are coffee enthusiasts and they maintain a coffee culture in Seattle's many coffeehouses.
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Coffee consumption
People in Seattle consume more coffee than in any other American city; one study stated that there are 35 coffeeshops per 100,000 residents and that Seattle people spend an average of $36 a month on coffee. 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.
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Roasters
Seattle is home to several coffee roasters.
Starbucks
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. In 2003, Starbucks acquired pioneering Seattle roaster Seattle's Best Coffee (SBC, originally Stewart Brothers' Coffee).
Tully's Coffee
Tully's Coffee is Seattle's second-largest coffee retailer. Tom Tully O'Keefe founded the chain in Kent, Washington in 1992 to rival the expansion of Starbucks with an alternative business model. A distinguishing feature between Tully's and Starbucks is that Tully's uses a milder roast and keeps overstuffed chairs and fireplaces in its stores to set a mood.
Caffé Vita Coffee Roasting Company
Caffé 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.
Espresso Vivace
Espresso Vivace is a set of coffeehouses and a roaster. Founded in 1988 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.
Victrola Coffee Roasters
Victrola Coffee Roasters is a coffeehouse which gives regular classes on coffee appreciation.
Lighthouse Roasters
Lighthouse Roasters was founded in 1993 by Ed Leebrick. They source from small coffee farms, and roast in small batches.
Stumptown / Peet's
Portland-based Stumptown Coffee Roasters opened a roasting facility in Seattle in 2010. On October 6, 2015 it was announced that San Francisco-based, Luxembourg-owned Peet's Coffee would acquire Stumptown.
Other roasters
Other Seattle roasters include Fonté Coffee Roasters, River Trail Roasters, Caffè Umbria, Fremont Coffee Company, Herkimer Coffee, Seattle Coffee Works, and Zoka Coffee Roaster and Tea Company.
Coffeehouses
In addition to the international success of coffee mega-chains like Starbucks, Tully's Coffee and Seattle's Best Coffee, Seattle coffee culture is found in the many independently owned coffee shops. Independently owned coffee shops include bauhaus books + coffee, Café Allegro, Caffè Umbria, Caffé Vita, Espresso Vivace, Monorail Espresso, Top Pot Doughnuts, Slate Coffee, Victrola, and Zoka Coffee Roaster & Tea Company . Most of these coffeehouses offer daily or weekly coffee cupping to the public. They roast their coffee in the back and open it for public viewing.
Café Allegro
Café Allegro is a coffeeshop in University District. It is the first espresso bar in Seattle. 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.
Last Exit on Brooklyn
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".
Top Pot Doughnuts
Top Pot Doughnuts was founded in 2002 as a pastry bakery which also sells coffee.
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Bauhaus was founded on October 5, 1993, and is notable for an unusual coffeehouse space design, which founder Joel Radin later applied to the design of Top Pot Doughnuts when he co-founded that company with others.
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 on December 13, 2015, for unexplained reasons.
Owner Joel Radin filed bankruptcy in February 2017.[1]
Ethiopian coffee
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, and Adey Abeba in the Central District
Coffee technology
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.
Coffee culture
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.
Coffee events
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.
The World Barista Championship was held in Seattle in April 2015. The competition, and its winner Sasa Sestic, were the subject of a documentary film The Coffee Man.
Seattle coffee in popular culture
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 Café.
See also
- Coffee in Portland, Oregon
References
External links
- Media related to Coffeehouses in Seattle at Wikimedia Commons
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