Seattle Coffee Works

Specialties

We make coffee. Not coffee with expensive machines but real coffee with tried and true methods of extraction: a traditional espresso maker, a vacuum pot, a press pot, a Chemex, a Melitta drip filter, even an aeropress.

We roast all of our coffees, and most of our coffees are fair-​trade and organic, and more and more of our coffees are direct-​trade.

All this combines to make us into a coffee tasting room, and many of our customers love hanging long after the first tasting experience.

History

Established in 2006.

In the fall of 2006, we opened our first store in a t-​shirt shop on Pike Street in downtown Seattle. The beginnings were modest. We had our grand opening on Memorial Day in 2007.

In the spring of 2008, we started roasting our own coffee, at first on a lil’ roaster named Molly. Molly got tired of all the work, and soon we gave her a rest. A friend helped out with the offer to roast on his beautiful baby-​blue Diedrich roaster. That roaster has no name but it’s definitely pretty and it roasts some great coffee.

On June 1, 2009, we moved into a space three times the size of our old hole-​in-​the-​wall store, and about 15 feet closer to the Pike Place Market. Finally, we had room to install our own Diedrich roaster. Her name is Anna. Anna is orange. She’s very beautiful. She likes visitors. Our new space is on its way to becoming one the coziest nooks in Seattle. Please come visit us and see it for yourself.

Meet the Business Owner

Sebastian S.

Business Owner

A long time ago, a family of four landed in Seattle from the far away land of California. For the first several weeks they stayed in a nondescript apartment building close to Pike Place Market. One member of the family was a coffee nut. He had heard that Seattle was the capital of coffee. A trip to the close-​by chain store claiming to be Seattle’s best was a disappointment to say the least.

After some time, the family moved away from downtown Seattle to a more permanent house. The plumber came to install the washing machine. A little home espresso maker was waiting to be plugged in. The coffee nut made an espresso for the plumber. A terrible espresso. The plumber said: «Let me show you the best coffee in Seattle.» That week on Saturday, the coffee nut and the plumber went to a hole-​in-​the-​wall in Eastlake. The coffee nut had a Macchiato. The Macchiato was the most divine drink the coffee nut had ever enjoyed. On that day, Seattle Coffee Works was conceived.