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Specialty-only coffee shops in Seattle, hand-picked for the coffee first and the room second.

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Multi-roaster (rotating local roasters)

Analog Coffee

Capitol Hill coffee bar open since 2011, pouring a rotating cast of local roasters.

Capitol Hill · Seattle, WA

Anchorhead Coffee

Anchorhead's Capitol Hill café, with a training room and event space, from a roaster known for natural-process coffees.

Capitol Hill · Seattle, WA

Anchorhead Coffee

Anchorhead's café on Western Avenue at Pike Place Market.

Pike Place Market · Seattle, WA

Boon Boona Coffee

Capitol Hill café of Renton roaster Boon Boona, which sources directly from producers in East Africa.

Capitol Hill (12th & Cherry) · Seattle, WA

Broadcast Coffee

Central District café of Broadcast Coffee, an independent Seattle roaster founded in 2008.

Central District · Seattle, WA

Avole

Café Avole

Café Avole's Central District shop, where coffee is also poured from a traditional jebena.

Central District · Seattle, WA

Avole

Café Avole

Black-owned Ethiopian coffee house on The Ave serving single-origin Ethiopian coffee roasted in Seattle by its sibling roaster.

University District · Seattle, WA

Caffè Umbria

Caffè Umbria's Ballard Avenue café.

Ballard · Seattle, WA

Caffè Umbria

Caffè Umbria's downtown café on Olive Way.

Downtown · Seattle, WA

Caffè Umbria

Pioneer Square café of Caffè Umbria, whose coffees are roasted by master roaster Emanuele Bizzarri of a three-generation espresso family.

Pioneer Square · Seattle, WA

Middlefork Roasters

Cypress Coffee Company

Redmond Ridge neighborhood café serving coffee from Middlefork Roasters.

Redmond Ridge · Redmond, WA

Coffee Collective

Day Made Kaffe Bar

Weekday Pioneer Square espresso bar brewing beans from Copenhagen's Coffee Collective, with milk soft serve on the side.

Pioneer Square / SoDo · Seattle, WA

Dote Coffee Bar

Bellevue coffee bar on the second floor of Lincoln Square South, small-batch roasting direct-trade coffees.

Downtown Bellevue · Bellevue, WA

Espresso Vivace

Espresso Vivace's South Lake Union espresso bar on Yale Avenue, with indoor seating.

South Lake Union · Seattle, WA

Espresso Vivace

Espresso Vivace's Capitol Hill flagship on Broadway, from the company that started as a Broadway espresso cart in 1988.

Capitol Hill · Seattle, WA

Multi-roaster (local roasters; Counter Culture)

Five Stones Coffee Co.

Eastside coffee shop on Kirkland's Central Way pouring coffee from local roasters and Counter Culture.

Downtown Kirkland · Kirkland, WA

Multi-roaster (local roasters; Counter Culture)

Five Stones Coffee Co.

Five Stones' downtown Redmond café on 161st Avenue NE, partnering with local roasters and Counter Culture.

Downtown Redmond · Redmond, WA

Fulcrum Coffee Roasters

Fulcrum Café

Belltown café of SoDo roaster Fulcrum, pouring single-origin pour-overs that include beans from its leader's family farm.

Belltown · Seattle, WA

Ghost Note Coffee

Pike/Pine coffee bar known for cocktail-inspired coffee drinks made with house syrups and bitters.

Capitol Hill (Pike/Pine) · Seattle, WA

Ghost Note Coffee

Ghost Note's downtown Seattle café on Third Avenue.

Downtown · Seattle, WA

Gloom Coffee

Pioneer Square roaster and coffee bar opened in 2026 by four local coffee veterans, with a Probat roaster taking up over half the space.

Pioneer Square · Seattle, WA

Hello Em

Hello Em Viet Coffee & Roastery

Little Saigon Vietnamese coffee shop running its own small roastery and working with Vietnamese robusta.

Little Saigon / International District · Seattle, WA

Herkimer Coffee

Herkimer's original Phinney Ridge café, home to the company's roastery.

Phinney Ridge · Seattle, WA

Herkimer Coffee

Herkimer's Ravenna café on University Way, pouring coffee roasted at its Phinney Ridge roastery.

Ravenna · Seattle, WA

Lighthouse Roasters

Fremont neighborhood roaster that has small-batch roasted its coffee in Seattle since 1993.

Fremont · Seattle, WA

Makario Coffee Roasters

Downtown Everett roaster café selling beans roasted to order.

Downtown · Everett, WA

Olympia Coffee Roasting

West Seattle café of Olympia Coffee, a roaster with direct-trade partnerships with farmers in eight countries.

West Seattle · Seattle, WA

Pegasus Coffee

Pegasus Coffee House

Pegasus's original Bainbridge coffeehouse; the company small-batch roasts at its Islandcraft Lane roastery.

Bainbridge Island, WA

Poverty Bay Coffee Company

Poverty Bay Cafe

Federal Way café of Poverty Bay Coffee, serving micro-roasted, shade-grown, direct-trade coffees.

Federal Way, WA

Push x Pull

Push X Pull On Union

Central District café that is Portland roaster Push x Pull's first Seattle location, focused on experimental natural-process beans.

Central District · Seattle, WA

River Trail Roasters

Downtown Redmond roaster-café that small-batch roasts organic, fair-trade coffee three times a week.

Downtown Redmond · Redmond, WA

Storyville Coffee

Storyville Coffee – Roasting Studio

Storyville's roasting studio tasting room, serving coffee and housemade pastries beside the roaster.

Bainbridge Island, WA

Thruline Coffee Co.

Kirkland roaster and café on Park Lane, roasting to order since 2008 and formerly known as Rococo Coffee Roasting.

Park Lane · Kirkland, WA

Victor's Celtic Coffee

Victor's Celtic Coffee & Roasters

Redmond café open since 1989 that small-batch roasts its beans fresh each week.

Downtown Redmond · Redmond, WA

Victrola Coffee Roasters

Victrola Coffee and Art

The original Victrola café on 15th Avenue East, from a Seattle roaster sourcing, roasting and serving coffee since 2000.

Capitol Hill (15th Ave) · Seattle, WA

Zoka Coffee

Zoka's Tangletown café near Green Lake, offering hand-brewed single-origin coffees.

Tangletown / Green Lake · Seattle, WA

Zoka Coffee

Zoka's downtown Kirkland café on Central Way.

Downtown Kirkland · Kirkland, WA

Zoka Coffee

Zoka's weekday café in South Lake Union.

South Lake Union · Seattle, WA

Zoka Coffee

Zoka's café on NE Blakeley Street near University Village.

University District / Ravenna · Seattle, WA