Cortona Cafe

The Central District is home to a great coffee shop called Cortona Cafe.  They use Herkimer Coffee and have tea from Miro.  Recently they expanded their outdoor seating area.  If you are in this area, give this neighborhood gem a visit. And if you like waffles… Source: Cortona Cafe – 2425 East Union Street, Seattle, [...]

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Stumptown Hosts Coffee Club of Seattle

If you live in Seattle, love coffee and aren’t a member of the Coffee Club of Seattle, you need to know what you missed this past Sunday.  Stumptown Coffee started things off with a coffee roasting demonstration. After the coffee roasting, we moved to the training room where the Hairbender Blend was brewed using 5 [...]

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Coffee Hero Unplugged

Over on my personal blog, I confessed that I have drastically cut back on my coffee intake in the past month.  So if you haven’t seen in me in your coffee shop in a while, don’t take it personally.  From the post 30 Days of Low Coffee Intake: Over 30 days ago I was able [...]

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3 Brewers Seattle Coffee Fans Need To Try

Not only does Seattle have some of the best roasters, cafes and baristas in the world, we also some of the best equipment.  Seattle is the home to three unique coffee brewing systems that most of the country does not have.  If you live in Seattle or came here on a coffee vacation, here are [...]

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Bellevue Steps Up To Quality Coffee at Vovito

When I first moved to the Seattle area in 2007, I started out in Bellevue.  Every weekend I would drive into Seattle and explore the coffee scene.  It was like two different coffee worlds.  Somehow those bridges were keeping all the quality coffee places trapped on the Seattle side.  That is all changing now. In [...]

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