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Top Notch Coffee and Top Pot Donuts

Posted in Beverage Banter, Coffee Business, Coffee, Tea & Hot Chocolate, Coffeehouses & Shops, tagged Top Pot, free wi-fi, top pot donuts, el presidente, mighty o donuts, mighty o, food network on December 20, 2008 | Comments Off

Its a little strange when you see one of your favorite coffee shop on the Food Network. Now I tend to think of Seattle as this little city that doesn’t get much attention in the media. I mean pick just about any show on the Food Network. Even though Seattle has great restaurants, they barely [...]

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Fuel Coffee… My Daily Fuel

Posted in Beverage Banter, Coffee, Tea & Hot Chocolate, Coffeehouses & Shops, tagged seattle, la marzocco, chocolati, Wallingford, capital hill, Fuel Coffee, caffé vita, caffé del sol, egg nog latte, montlake, miller park, kingfish cafe, chocolati café on December 18, 2008 | Comments Off

Fuel Coffee has been a staple of the Eastern side of Capital Hill for a while now and has also been a favorite alternative source of mine. The first store opened up on Capital Hill (or maybe more accurately the Miller Park neighborhood… a couple of doors down from the famous Kingfish Cafe right on [...]

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Insomniax Coffee on 15th

Posted in Beverage Banter, tagged 15th, café mam, capital hill, insomniax, insomniax coffee, royal espresso, seattle on December 17, 2008 | Comments Off

Insomniax Coffee & Juice is yet another of those coffee shops that I pass by on a regular basis, but I rarely, if ever go there. The main reasons for this are twofold. The first is that I usually don’t hang out in the area as such, and because of this, easy parking tends to [...]

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Voxx Coffee on Eastlake

Posted in Beverage Banter, tagged eastlake, hairbender, queen ann, seattle, sitting room, Stumptown, voxx, voxx coffee on December 17, 2008 | Comments Off

Voxx Coffee on Eastlake is another coffeehouse that until relatively recently, I had driven by too many times to count but never actually stopped there to get a latte. The two main reasons I think I hadn’t stopped there in the past were; I have never heard of Voxx Coffee other than seeing the place [...]

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My Bizarre Elbasha Cafe Experince

Posted in Beverage Banter, Don't Go There!, tagged belltown, elbasha cafe, seattle on December 16, 2008 | Comments Off

First of all I must say that I have drive past the Elbasha Cafe many a time and the sign has always intrigued me. The sign for this cafe depicts a Moroccan looking guy wearing a Fez and almost looks like some old portrait photograph from the 40s or 50s. I also like the green [...]

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