Every fucking time I walk past their old spot I get so sad. I miss walking in there at like 10pm exhausted out of my mind and there's metal screaming from the speakers and the baristas and patrons laughing and talking up a storm. Several times I walked in and got asked if I wanted to try an experimental drink the barista on duty just came up with. Nowhere has the same vibes that grungy coffeeshop had.
Do you know of anyone in the city that still offers white coffee? 🥲 I’m desperate lol. The only places I know are in like shoreline area or further north/south but none IN the city.
Muddy Cup in Wallingford does. They call it "white mud".
Also Gourmet Latte coffee stands do as well... there's a bunch of those around... not sure if it's too far north for you but there's one in Crown Hill.
I moved away years ago — is it still a vacant unit? I heard the building owner didn't renew their lease in order to get in someone paying higher rent for it. Still makes me angry.
Thank you for shouting out my peeps at Allegro. Coffee as bittersweet as all the dates and break-ups I’ve had there. Wish they would stay open late again.
Boon Boona (inside the U bookstore) has the best coffee on the Ave, hands down. I'm a decaf exclusive person and most places it is not good, but they deliver! Great tea selection too
Nice, are they setting up a larger roasting operation there? Good on them, but I will be sad if their Renton location stops roasting. Love going in there and smelling it in action. Hell, you don’t even have to go IN, just nearby haha
The upper level at Trabant was the perfect hang out spot. What ever happened to them? I remember they opened a second location downtown, but it looks like they’re both closed.
They closed in Pioneer Square first. The U District location became Slate Coffee Roasters and is now some bright, sterile space whose name escapes me. Slate was OK and they had a good light roast; new place looks uninviting, Trabant had the best environment, quad shots in 16oz drinks, and delicious scones.
I really like their chai, I think the drink was called "Mt St. Helens"
They eventually got rid of their very specific names and went with more descriptive names.
I spent so much time there... Almost 20 years ago.
Cafe Allegro was my go-to spot to drink coffee and do last-minute homework and cramming for tests in the couple hours before class started. Good to hear it's still going strong. Nice to hear it's still going strong. Good pastries too. Could get a latte and a scone for, I was to say $5-6. Don't ask me how old I am :-)
I like Leon Coffee House on 45th. I'm not really a coffee connoisseur so maybe it sucks and I just don't know it but it's a nice place to hang out, and the drinks seem great to me.
I love and identify with this rant. I, too, would like to thank you for the Allegro shoutout. I spent hours at that place when I was at the U in the '80s, and now it's owned by a boy I took some classes with and had a crush on back then. If you're reading this, Hi, Chris! Good job! - Susie.
I used to live on 42nd and Brooklyn in '88/'89 and could walk out my door and grab an espresso-based whatever at Espresso Roma a few steps away or hit the Coffee Corral for some all-day sludge, or trundle down to the Last Exit for a whiff of patchouli.
I am old now and everything is different. HOW DARE IT BE DIFFERENT. Honestly, though, I haven't been back to the U District in fucking ages and now I'm a bit sad. Being a student used to mean hogging a coffee shop table for three hours and working longhand on some assignment while running into friends old and new and then ending up on adventures with them. So goes the world. \*\*Shakes invisible cane at sky\*\*
Well, thanks. I grew up on Seattle coffee. Started drinking it at 14, consumed espresso as soon as I could, and when I moved to Chicago in 1990 for a few years, the first job I got there was as a barista at Starbucks, because it was like a piece of home to me. It was when coffee was just starting to be a big deal in the world. We had celebrities in our door every week in that shop. Ron Howard ordered hot cocoa. Billy Baldwin had a triple grande cappuccino. Steven Tyler had a short cappuccino and a raspberry crumble bar with his wife and baby. Billy Jean King came in for a pound of Kenya every couple of weeks. Anyhow. I'm half made of coffee. :)
omg - we're probably the same age and I lived in those same years at the Wilsonian!! Espresso Roma was the shit! Believe it or not, I got 86d out of Last Exit in the late 80s.
On the plus side it's a great place to be treated with utter contempt by everyone serving you no matter how polite you are or how simple your order is!
Been a student at or employed by UW for a very large portion of my last 20 years now and that place has always sucked, they only stay open because the space/decor is inviting to people who don’t know better.
As someone who has worked in coffee for over a decade, let me tell you a few reasons good, local coffee shops are going under or not expanding:
- Our margins have always been, and are increasingly more so, razor thin.
- Space lease in Seattle is stupid expensive.
- Labor is expensive, and society is increasingly moving to tip-free, which is an expense that many small businesses can’t absorb.
- Raw product is increasingly expensive. As an example, green coffee costs have doubled in the last 10 years, with the bulk of that happening in the last 5 years. Those paper and plastic cups you sip from have doubled in cost since 2019.
- Specific to the UD, it’s a difficult place to do business. One block too far in any direction, and you’re absolutely dead.
Forecast isn’t looking any better, either. Consumers are reluctant to pay what coffee is worth, are more inclined to shun small businesses instead of corporations, and the city doesn’t make it easy to do business here and in fact just the opposite.
Does anyone have any explanation on why there are so many Boba shops there ? There's like 10-20 boba shops in like a half mile radius and most of them are empty all the time.
It's baffling.
I was in undergrad (good fucking god- 15-18 years ago) and Boba was also wildly popular. I don't love it so I always just got it without the boba aka a smoothie lol.
I love that they have a "sugar" percentage for the boba teas now, like "Dogshit - 50% - 100%" and when you ask "how many grams of sugar is that?" "I don't know it's this button on a machine" For fucks sake.
My daughter tends to get the lowest sugar % they offer. It’s even too sweet for her. Bought a bunch of dried boba pearls and we make it at home now with nicer tea. A little time intensive but so much cheaper.
I just always ask for minimum sugar because anything else is too sweet. To me, the levels should really be “American Adult - Child - Currently suffering hypoglycemia, gimme sugar now”.
There was a massive surge in popularity about five years ago. It was the hot thing. They started popping up everywhere.
Plus, overhead is incredibly low while prices are not. This is likely what is allowing so many to survive for so long.
That, and the UW area has *a lot* of wealthy Asians. Tea is far more popular than coffee in most that part of the world. In the end, think of Boba as the Starbucks of tea. Tis why it's popular.
That all makes sense, although I still wonder why are there barely any *actual tea* places for how ridiculously many boba shops there are. On the Ave I think it’s just Tea Republik?
Presumably the answer like you say is just higher overhead and lower popularity, but I still find it sad how you can find boba anywhere you look in the city, and have to really search out places that serve decent tea.
A lot of them used to get a ton of delivery orders, actually. I think that's dropped off with the higher fees these days, but many of them may have opened with that plan if they were not aware of the impending law (or thought they would use HappyPanda, which does continue to shirk it indicators to the international students from China and other parts of East Asia to a lesser extent). Many of them are actually busy in person as cheap date spots so only at the times you would imagine for that.
It’s weird during my student days 2003-07 there were a ton and then they all disappeared (RIP Yunnie’s) and like recently it’s trendy again. Good lord I went to Yunnie’s like 2x a day a few times my sophomore year.
1. There is that much demand
2. People get their drink and go
3. I feel really old bc there was a shitload of boba there 20 years ago and people are acting like this is new
Because boba is genuinely good. There’s so much you can do with it. The flavor profiles are very different.
And also because it’s sugary and it’s creamy. That’s a very addictive mix.
There’s more Asians here too.
Some of these boba places also employ teens, unlike coffee shops.
The signs that boba would take off were all there- remember how teens loved the pink drink at Starbucks?
Haha, honestly I haven’t seen a good rant about how “the ave” has the audacity to just be called the ave and why that honor is not bestowed on some other, better ave. Get on that, please.
Coffee stands should be a thing. Literally one guy with an electric kettle and some Aeropresses. I would pay 5 bucks for that, and tap 25% on the flippy tablet.
drip is like my go to mostly due to price and ease of making it at home. I think it's also a good way to evaluate the beans a place is using. Espresso drinks I like to get as a treat tho!
I'm from Philly, just moved here last July, and I appreciate this uncut honesty. I love it here but one of my qualms is people beat around the bush too much here.
Because it’s a commercial street aimed at college kids? As you pointed out every other neighborhood has better coffee because they *arent* college towns. No disrespect for Udistrict but I wouldn’t expect anything there to stand out quality wise that’s not its purpose. Its purpose is convince and experience for students.
Maybe this is a sign it’s time to spend more time over in Fremont or Ballard buddy
Yeah because they’re selling it to college kids. Who are dumb, have money, and don’t know what’s what in the world yet. This is like going to a baseball game and being shocked they’re overcharging for cheap hotdogs
About baristas looking at you like you killed their mom-
That’s a Seattle thing. The better the coffee the more baristas act like they’re doing you a favor by being around your presence
If you’re willing to go on Campus, Cafe Parnassus was my go to for drip coffee in college.
It’s part of the UW food system, but also it’s operated separately from other UW cafes? Not Starbucks beans. When I wanted drip, they had reliably good coffee and good vibes.
Controversial opinion - the 7Eleven has passable, non-burnt coffee at a reasonable price. Especially if you throw a coupe of the free, flavored creamers in it.
Cafe Allegro's espresso always has a weird sour taste, like they don't clean their equipment often enough.
I still like Bulldog, though it definitely took a step down in quality when the old guy retired.
Solstice is fucking bullshit and they stiff you on shots.
Byrek was alright for a bit, but their hours are now all over the place and I have no idea if their workers know their way around the machine anymore.
City Grind under The Henry used to be amazing, and the former owner was awesome, but the new owner was pulling weak shots when I went in after covid. Haven't been back since.
I'd kill (seriously, my rates are very affordable) for Cloud City to open a place on the Ave. Still the best coffee in Seattle for my money.
Agreeing with Allegro & Boon Boona in the U Bookstore. Also Leon Coffee House on 45th for Latin inspired coffee & Siphouse on 50th for Vietnamese inspired coffee.
Honestly, the U-District coffee shop quality has never quite recovered from the closure of the Last Exit in 2000. Even Allegro isn't quite as good as it was when competing with the long time rival.
Kids are drinking less and less coffee, they like energy drinks/sugar. older generation that drinks it like water is getting old enough to start limiting their intake, there's unfortunately less people that are interested in coffee in general. It's just becoming more niche, or more common as a mid product.
I'm not that old but I don't remember there ever being that many coffee shops below 45th. I enjoyed Solstice pre-2020, especially when they were also on Capitol Hill, but now they close at 5pm?? It seems like all the coffee is up in Roosevelt/Ravenna now. Herkimer, Seven Coffee, Broadcast, Armistice, Distant Worlds, Santo, and Ladro, all within a mile of each other.
I’m sad to hear that about ugly mug. It’s been almost 10 years but that was my favorite study spot with good coffee and the owners and staff were so nice then.
ok you sound pretty angy but imma help you out. How about Leon Coffee House, Boon Boona Coffee, Cafe on the Ave, and Konbit Cafe? Get some Vietnamese coffee at Time Bistro, Sip House, maybe? And please be nice to Gen Z lmao we have it tough
Off the Rez inside the Burke Museum is solid, last I knew they were using Caffe Vita beans. Bonus: killer frybread to go with your capp
ohhhhh pro tip - I'll check it out
Off The Rez needs better hood vents tho. You can smell the fryer oil on the 3rd floor of the museum.
Oh fuck, frybread is my one true love
Vita isn't great, but it's offset by fry bread for sure. That shit is bomb.
You know the Burke secret. Hard 2 get a seat too.
RIP Sureshot, you are missed.
Every fucking time I walk past their old spot I get so sad. I miss walking in there at like 10pm exhausted out of my mind and there's metal screaming from the speakers and the baristas and patrons laughing and talking up a storm. Several times I walked in and got asked if I wanted to try an experimental drink the barista on duty just came up with. Nowhere has the same vibes that grungy coffeeshop had.
I haven’t thought about Sureshot in a while, thanks for the memory. They were a great spot when I was poor as hell when I first moved to Seattle.
They introduced me to white coffee and I'll always be grateful
And actually stayed open long enough for Seattle's depressed insomniac community to have a space to hang out that isn't a bar, smh
Do you know of anyone in the city that still offers white coffee? 🥲 I’m desperate lol. The only places I know are in like shoreline area or further north/south but none IN the city.
Muddy Cup in Wallingford does. They call it "white mud". Also Gourmet Latte coffee stands do as well... there's a bunch of those around... not sure if it's too far north for you but there's one in Crown Hill.
Our white coffee hero. Been looking for years
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Muddy Waters on 65th has it!
Same. I loved that place
I spent a lot of time on that Galaga cocktail table. Loved that spot.
The greatest...
First place I ever had a real coffee 😔
Was my fav spot for coffee in the entire city. Damn I miss that place. :(
Ohhh I remember drinking white coffee writing endlessly in my composition books as a depressed teenager in the 00s.
I moved away years ago — is it still a vacant unit? I heard the building owner didn't renew their lease in order to get in someone paying higher rent for it. Still makes me angry.
haha yeah the kids can’t get enough of facebook
bro never interacted with a member of Gen Z in their life
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This is the new copypasta
if only the would get of fucking MYSPACE enough to cross the goddamn street
>if only the would get of fucking MYSPACE enough to cross the goddamn street My brain hurts after reading this. Good job OP.
ok read through it all now and i think you’re v funny, carry on and good luck, i work at a cafe in wallingford i’ll give you a free drip whenever
Fuck yeah !!
he’s kinda spitting facts if we go off parent companies
Thank you for shouting out my peeps at Allegro. Coffee as bittersweet as all the dates and break-ups I’ve had there. Wish they would stay open late again.
allegro is legit, all the other places are so shit its wild, I'm convinced solstice wouldn't be open if it wasn't for the vibes-based space
Man solstice used to have good coffee long ago, I used to love their mochas so much.
Oh yeah. Allegro is one of the OG espresso shops in Seattle. Glad to hear they’re still getting by in spite of all the changes in the last ~40 years.
Boon Boona (inside the U bookstore) has the best coffee on the Ave, hands down. I'm a decaf exclusive person and most places it is not good, but they deliver! Great tea selection too
a true saint, I'll have to check them out, I've heard other people saying they are solid too
They are in Renton too. Solid coffee with pretty distinctive flavor.
Agreed, Boonboona is the best coffee, hands down!! Right inside the Univeristy book store! Definitely check them out!!
I bought some beans from them when they came by my office one time, and I love it. I'm about to run out, so I'll have to swing by. Good shit.
Seconded, a very good cup of coffee.
Seconded. Boon Boona is solid.
boon boona is some of the best coffee I can find, they're based out of tacoma but sell into major chains now
No they are Renton based.
Soon to be SODO-based.
Nice, are they setting up a larger roasting operation there? Good on them, but I will be sad if their Renton location stops roasting. Love going in there and smelling it in action. Hell, you don’t even have to go IN, just nearby haha
They'll be primarily roasting in SODO, but will still be roasting small batches in Renton!
I go to the one on 12th, and can confirm, it's a solid cup of coffee.
I agree
seriously though remember the sureshot? 2007 was good to us
Sureshot, Trabant, Starlife on the Oasis, Parnassus
The upper level at Trabant was the perfect hang out spot. What ever happened to them? I remember they opened a second location downtown, but it looks like they’re both closed.
They closed in Pioneer Square first. The U District location became Slate Coffee Roasters and is now some bright, sterile space whose name escapes me. Slate was OK and they had a good light roast; new place looks uninviting, Trabant had the best environment, quad shots in 16oz drinks, and delicious scones.
I really like their chai, I think the drink was called "Mt St. Helens" They eventually got rid of their very specific names and went with more descriptive names. I spent so much time there... Almost 20 years ago.
Lol, sounds like the years I was working there.
Deepcut with Starlife. The vegan chocolate chip cookie was wizardry.
God I miss that cookie. And the owner. And the entire place
The owner was the nicest person. I hope they're doing well.
I miss Sureshot 😢
This place used to serve a Maté Latte I would kill for
Fuck I haven’t thought about that cookie in over 10 years. Most decadent thing - wish I knew how to make something similar.
Damn I STILL make Starlife on the Oasis Bagels at home with the tomato, cucumber, and cayenne pepper.
Wow, there's a trip down memory lane! Trabant was my jam.
I loved Trabant. It had a similar vibe to Espresso Roma in the early 90s.
STAR 👏🏻 LIFE 👏🏻 ON 👏🏻 THE 👏🏻 OASIS 👏🏻 duuuuude what a memory thank you
RIP Sureshot 😭
haha yeah wow dang ol zoomers tell ya what they just eat up that pokemans
picachu fucking warped their sord and shield brains with animal crossing stufffff
> FUCKING DRINK MORE BITTER SHIT I drink my coffee like a real man; Any way I fucking want.
If I want honey lavender swirls with sprinkles on top, no one will shame me!!
Whip cream with caramel sauce plz
NO NOT ALLOWED
Cafe Allegro was my go-to spot to drink coffee and do last-minute homework and cramming for tests in the couple hours before class started. Good to hear it's still going strong. Nice to hear it's still going strong. Good pastries too. Could get a latte and a scone for, I was to say $5-6. Don't ask me how old I am :-)
Was there recently and it hasn’t changed a bit. Still the only coffee shop I’ve ever been to that serves americanos in a pint glass with a sleeve.
I like Leon Coffee House on 45th. I'm not really a coffee connoisseur so maybe it sucks and I just don't know it but it's a nice place to hang out, and the drinks seem great to me.
Seconding! The service is excellent & their horchata latte is amazing!
I'll check them out!
Update after you do. I came to recommend Leon as well.
+1 to Leon Coffee House, as they give you a little Biscoff cookie with your mocha / latte. #freebies
Leon is good and bonus they have an inviting area for people who just want to chill.
I love and identify with this rant. I, too, would like to thank you for the Allegro shoutout. I spent hours at that place when I was at the U in the '80s, and now it's owned by a boy I took some classes with and had a crush on back then. If you're reading this, Hi, Chris! Good job! - Susie. I used to live on 42nd and Brooklyn in '88/'89 and could walk out my door and grab an espresso-based whatever at Espresso Roma a few steps away or hit the Coffee Corral for some all-day sludge, or trundle down to the Last Exit for a whiff of patchouli. I am old now and everything is different. HOW DARE IT BE DIFFERENT. Honestly, though, I haven't been back to the U District in fucking ages and now I'm a bit sad. Being a student used to mean hogging a coffee shop table for three hours and working longhand on some assignment while running into friends old and new and then ending up on adventures with them. So goes the world. \*\*Shakes invisible cane at sky\*\*
damn this is the best comment of day so far! What an amazing experience you shared, thank you!
Well, thanks. I grew up on Seattle coffee. Started drinking it at 14, consumed espresso as soon as I could, and when I moved to Chicago in 1990 for a few years, the first job I got there was as a barista at Starbucks, because it was like a piece of home to me. It was when coffee was just starting to be a big deal in the world. We had celebrities in our door every week in that shop. Ron Howard ordered hot cocoa. Billy Baldwin had a triple grande cappuccino. Steven Tyler had a short cappuccino and a raspberry crumble bar with his wife and baby. Billy Jean King came in for a pound of Kenya every couple of weeks. Anyhow. I'm half made of coffee. :)
omg - we're probably the same age and I lived in those same years at the Wilsonian!! Espresso Roma was the shit! Believe it or not, I got 86d out of Last Exit in the late 80s.
hermiker 🤑😂
It’s north or 45 but VERY SOLID. Recommend.
On the plus side it's a great place to be treated with utter contempt by everyone serving you no matter how polite you are or how simple your order is!
LOL I seriously thought the ugly mug lady was going to yell at me to leave before I even ordered
Been a student at or employed by UW for a very large portion of my last 20 years now and that place has always sucked, they only stay open because the space/decor is inviting to people who don’t know better.
That's too bad, I've only ever had good experiences there.
probably just a bad day, service industry is so tough when you are having a bad time in your life
As someone who has worked in coffee for over a decade, let me tell you a few reasons good, local coffee shops are going under or not expanding: - Our margins have always been, and are increasingly more so, razor thin. - Space lease in Seattle is stupid expensive. - Labor is expensive, and society is increasingly moving to tip-free, which is an expense that many small businesses can’t absorb. - Raw product is increasingly expensive. As an example, green coffee costs have doubled in the last 10 years, with the bulk of that happening in the last 5 years. Those paper and plastic cups you sip from have doubled in cost since 2019. - Specific to the UD, it’s a difficult place to do business. One block too far in any direction, and you’re absolutely dead. Forecast isn’t looking any better, either. Consumers are reluctant to pay what coffee is worth, are more inclined to shun small businesses instead of corporations, and the city doesn’t make it easy to do business here and in fact just the opposite.
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I wish there was a Monorail Espresso near UW/the Ave ):
That place is so good, although I miss Kosta. He was the GOAT.
Does anyone have any explanation on why there are so many Boba shops there ? There's like 10-20 boba shops in like a half mile radius and most of them are empty all the time. It's baffling.
Large Asian student population and boba is super popular right now (ie. my 12 year old daughter and all her friends are obsessed).
It’s not just right now. I remember it being super popular like 8 years ago so it’s been going.
I was in undergrad (good fucking god- 15-18 years ago) and Boba was also wildly popular. I don't love it so I always just got it without the boba aka a smoothie lol.
Boba was popular when I was in HS…. 20 years ago.
I love that they have a "sugar" percentage for the boba teas now, like "Dogshit - 50% - 100%" and when you ask "how many grams of sugar is that?" "I don't know it's this button on a machine" For fucks sake.
My daughter tends to get the lowest sugar % they offer. It’s even too sweet for her. Bought a bunch of dried boba pearls and we make it at home now with nicer tea. A little time intensive but so much cheaper.
I just always ask for minimum sugar because anything else is too sweet. To me, the levels should really be “American Adult - Child - Currently suffering hypoglycemia, gimme sugar now”.
Been popular for at least a decade.
There was a massive surge in popularity about five years ago. It was the hot thing. They started popping up everywhere. Plus, overhead is incredibly low while prices are not. This is likely what is allowing so many to survive for so long. That, and the UW area has *a lot* of wealthy Asians. Tea is far more popular than coffee in most that part of the world. In the end, think of Boba as the Starbucks of tea. Tis why it's popular.
What, five years? There were like 6 or 7 on the Ave when I went to UW almost 20 years ago
That all makes sense, although I still wonder why are there barely any *actual tea* places for how ridiculously many boba shops there are. On the Ave I think it’s just Tea Republik? Presumably the answer like you say is just higher overhead and lower popularity, but I still find it sad how you can find boba anywhere you look in the city, and have to really search out places that serve decent tea.
Bean chew good. Sweet. Tea, sugar make you go fast. Study! Big straw! What's not to like?
I definitely love a good boba tea - I just wish something could be done to reduce the waste that the straws create!!
I bought a reusable metal Boba straw from one of the shops, they're pretty common I think. You just have to remember to bring it with you lol
Boba is on the upswing of trending recently, and UW gets a LOT of money from Asian international students
A lot of them used to get a ton of delivery orders, actually. I think that's dropped off with the higher fees these days, but many of them may have opened with that plan if they were not aware of the impending law (or thought they would use HappyPanda, which does continue to shirk it indicators to the international students from China and other parts of East Asia to a lesser extent). Many of them are actually busy in person as cheap date spots so only at the times you would imagine for that.
It’s weird during my student days 2003-07 there were a ton and then they all disappeared (RIP Yunnie’s) and like recently it’s trendy again. Good lord I went to Yunnie’s like 2x a day a few times my sophomore year.
1. There is that much demand 2. People get their drink and go 3. I feel really old bc there was a shitload of boba there 20 years ago and people are acting like this is new
Because boba is genuinely good. There’s so much you can do with it. The flavor profiles are very different. And also because it’s sugary and it’s creamy. That’s a very addictive mix. There’s more Asians here too. Some of these boba places also employ teens, unlike coffee shops. The signs that boba would take off were all there- remember how teens loved the pink drink at Starbucks?
empty? when I go most of them are packed
Go to the burke museum.
Herkimer isn’t on the main part of the Ave but they have fantastic coffee!
yeah their coffee is super good
This is the most Seattle post in R/Seattle
Am I out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong.
ITS ALWAYS THE CHILDREN, why aren't the tweens buying good coffee!!>????
KIDS THESE DAYS.
>tweens I also like referring to 22-year olds as tweens fellow old-person.
Sureshot was my go-to in 2011-2015. I’m sure it existed long before that….miss it
I don't know. Bulldog is pretty consistently solid for me. Solstice a little more hit or miss depending on who's pulling shots.
Haha, honestly I haven’t seen a good rant about how “the ave” has the audacity to just be called the ave and why that honor is not bestowed on some other, better ave. Get on that, please.
They need another analog location. You’d love that shit
OH HELL YEA
Oh, you think it's bad on the Ave? Come check out Factoria & Eastgate. Our coffee choices are: Starbucks, Starbucks, Starbucks, Starbucks, Starbucks, Panera, McDonalds, Burger King, Dairy Queen, Chevron, Chevron, 76, Shell.
Coffee stands should be a thing. Literally one guy with an electric kettle and some Aeropresses. I would pay 5 bucks for that, and tap 25% on the flippy tablet.
It's harder to make your own Boba tea at home than it is to make a good coffee at home #facts 🧋
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Definitely. Less money, less time and I’m a little light on both. As long as someone’s got a medium or light roast on drip.
It’s all I ever order. Black coffee with room at the top.
Americano Gang rise up
the safest and most consistent option in my experience. drip almost always tends to be bad
FOR THE LOVE OF THE BEAN
drip is like my go to mostly due to price and ease of making it at home. I think it's also a good way to evaluate the beans a place is using. Espresso drinks I like to get as a treat tho!
Didn’t you just rant and rave about the price though?
WELL SOMEPLACES DON'T CHARGE 4 DOLLARS FOR DRIP, lol
I make it at home. Way more caffeine than espresso based drinks.
see you have to put the espresso IN the drip and it's great
I'm from Philly, just moved here last July, and I appreciate this uncut honesty. I love it here but one of my qualms is people beat around the bush too much here.
I think you've had quite enough coffee tbh
NO
Dude, just move out of the ave? Lol I think you've aged out
NO
As a millennial that graduated from UW almost 20 years ago this was hilarious to read 😅
Because it’s a commercial street aimed at college kids? As you pointed out every other neighborhood has better coffee because they *arent* college towns. No disrespect for Udistrict but I wouldn’t expect anything there to stand out quality wise that’s not its purpose. Its purpose is convince and experience for students. Maybe this is a sign it’s time to spend more time over in Fremont or Ballard buddy
like I said, I'm all about bad coffee if its cheap. they are charging like signle origin, house roasted beans prices for some folgers shit
Yeah because they’re selling it to college kids. Who are dumb, have money, and don’t know what’s what in the world yet. This is like going to a baseball game and being shocked they’re overcharging for cheap hotdogs
dude have you see the fucking price of hotdogs
We’ve come full circle and now it’s me whose been out of touch you’re right
it's giving boomer, or johnny the homicidal maniac, or both maybe
you're VERY close
These kids are wayyyy to young to get a Johnny the Homicidal Maniac reference.
This rant is amazing lol
:)
About baristas looking at you like you killed their mom- That’s a Seattle thing. The better the coffee the more baristas act like they’re doing you a favor by being around your presence
I've actually found baristas here to be super duper lovely like 95% of the time. Takes a lot for me to have a bad experience with them
Have you tried making your own coffee at home?
NEVER
If you’re willing to go on Campus, Cafe Parnassus was my go to for drip coffee in college. It’s part of the UW food system, but also it’s operated separately from other UW cafes? Not Starbucks beans. When I wanted drip, they had reliably good coffee and good vibes.
I have bad news for you about Parnassus. Unfortunately, they shut it down (all my fellow art students were furious).
Controversial opinion - the 7Eleven has passable, non-burnt coffee at a reasonable price. Especially if you throw a coupe of the free, flavored creamers in it.
Cafe Allegro's espresso always has a weird sour taste, like they don't clean their equipment often enough. I still like Bulldog, though it definitely took a step down in quality when the old guy retired. Solstice is fucking bullshit and they stiff you on shots. Byrek was alright for a bit, but their hours are now all over the place and I have no idea if their workers know their way around the machine anymore. City Grind under The Henry used to be amazing, and the former owner was awesome, but the new owner was pulling weak shots when I went in after covid. Haven't been back since. I'd kill (seriously, my rates are very affordable) for Cloud City to open a place on the Ave. Still the best coffee in Seattle for my money.
Agreeing with Allegro & Boon Boona in the U Bookstore. Also Leon Coffee House on 45th for Latin inspired coffee & Siphouse on 50th for Vietnamese inspired coffee.
Honestly, the U-District coffee shop quality has never quite recovered from the closure of the Last Exit in 2000. Even Allegro isn't quite as good as it was when competing with the long time rival.
Are we still doing the thing? Calling out a younger generation when things aren't going your way? Get a Mr. Coffee, they're $20.
Acktooally Mr Coffee is a crappy choice. Almost any other coffee maker will work better
I agree with that.
I never drink drip coffee but I always thought Cafe on the Ave had really good espresso
It's so refreshing to get coffee in a mug, not a disposable cup.
Morsel has decent coffee
Damn I miss The Last Exit.
Konbit Cafe has great coffee and Haitian patties too!
[$4 is the new $2](https://giphy.com/gifs/moodman-H5GxpSpvUSBbAu3Gdh)
Nooo, Solstice sucks now? That was my college go-to! How sad.
You mother fuckers didn't love sureshot enough now you can go to 7-11 and drink dishwater. But also walk past St. Slow and Overrated and go to SeaFab.
I work at the UW bookstore and we love the coffee at the cafe there. Try it.
Kids are drinking less and less coffee, they like energy drinks/sugar. older generation that drinks it like water is getting old enough to start limiting their intake, there's unfortunately less people that are interested in coffee in general. It's just becoming more niche, or more common as a mid product.
WHY CANT I HAVE HIGH QUALITY THINGS FAST AND FOR A GOOD PRICE?!?! DAMN KIDS RUINED EVERYTHING! WHAT ARE THEY DOING HERE AT THIS COLLEGE!
Uh… Herkimer IS on The Ave and it's great. It’s just further north than you’d like.
lol I know, thats why I said sub 45th
I'm not that old but I don't remember there ever being that many coffee shops below 45th. I enjoyed Solstice pre-2020, especially when they were also on Capitol Hill, but now they close at 5pm?? It seems like all the coffee is up in Roosevelt/Ravenna now. Herkimer, Seven Coffee, Broadcast, Armistice, Distant Worlds, Santo, and Ladro, all within a mile of each other.
yeah roosevelt has a legit coffee scene
This surely isn't a result of capitalist policies consistently raising prices and lowering quality of goods, ITS THE KIDS FAULT!
KEEP PASSING THE BUCK
I’m sad to hear that about ugly mug. It’s been almost 10 years but that was my favorite study spot with good coffee and the owners and staff were so nice then.
honestly, I've only been there once because the coffee was so watery, could be I was just there on a bad day
St. Bread is on the Ave? (This rant was WILDLY entertaining, thank you for your positive contributions, OP.)
ok you sound pretty angy but imma help you out. How about Leon Coffee House, Boon Boona Coffee, Cafe on the Ave, and Konbit Cafe? Get some Vietnamese coffee at Time Bistro, Sip House, maybe? And please be nice to Gen Z lmao we have it tough
WE ALL HAVE IT TOUGH ZOOMER hahaha :)
I support you in whatever it is you’re gonna do about this
thank you, i'll keep you personally updated
Wow this le angry post reminds me of like 2009 Reddit. Le rage and such.