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Lounging at All City Coffee

Posted in Coffee, Tea & Hot Chocolate, Coffeehouses & Shops, North America, Reviews, tagged seattle, all city coffee, pioneer square, george town, zeitgeist, caffé vita, cafe umbria, trabant, frontier coffee, elliot bay bookstore cafe on October 12, 2009 | Comments Off

All City Coffee has at least two locations in the Seattle area. Their flagship store is the one located in George town and the second store is located in downtown Seattle, in the Pioneer Square area. I had ‘been to’ the George town location a couple of years ago but I don’t really remember much [...]

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illy Meets Vios

Posted in Beverage Banter, Coffee, Tea & Hot Chocolate, Coffeehouses & Shops, North America, tagged seattle, capital hill, Stumptown, illy, caffé vita, greek restaurant, volunteer park café and marketplace, vios, vios cafe & marketplace, ravenna, illy coffee on October 10, 2009 | Comments Off

Illy Meets Vios, originally uploaded by andai. Ok, before I start, I must get this out…. Vios Cafe and Marketplace serves really great Greek food and they have awesome deserts that would certainly go really well with an excellent espresso. This place is probably my second or third most favorite Greek restaurant/café/whatever. What I also [...]

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Local Color, Art, Coffee and More…

Posted in Beverage Banter, Coffee, Tea & Hot Chocolate, Coffeehouses & Shops, North America, tagged seattle, pike place market, caffé vita, art, cafe del sol, local color on October 8, 2009 | Comments Off

Local Color, originally uploaded by andai. Local Color is another of a myriad of coffee shops located in Pike Place Market. Though I have been there a couple of times, I don’t go there much, if at all, simply because this place is just not my style. This has nothing to do with the coffee [...]

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Caffé Fioré, the Organic Coffeehouse

Posted in Beverage Banter, Coffee, Tea & Hot Chocolate, Coffeehouses & Shops, North America, tagged seattle, ballard, Washington State, organic coffee, queen ann, caffé vita, washington, caffé fioré, sunset hill, organic coffeehouse, wa on October 5, 2009 | Comments Off

Caffé Fioré Excellence, originally uploaded by andai. Ahh yes.. Caffé Fioré! This is actually one of my other favorite coffeehouses which in reality I don’t get to visit much. And the reason for this being that they have three main locations, one in Ballard, one in Sunset Hill and the third on Queen Ann, none [...]

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Irwin’s Bakery and Coffee House

Posted in Coffee, Tea & Hot Chocolate, Coffeehouses & Shops, North America, Reviews, tagged seattle, Wallingford, Washington State, caffé vita, caffé del sol, washington, irwin's, irwin's bakery & coffee house, caffe on October 3, 2009 | Comments Off

Irwin’s Bakery and Coffee House, originally uploaded by andai. A couple of years back, I used to pass by this coffee house in the Wallingford area every Sunday morning. However I had only been inside once or twice and quite frankly I didn’t really remember much about the coffee. So a couple of months ago, [...]

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