Porchlight Coffee & Records

Porchlight Coffee & Records

Description on  Porchlight Coffee & Records website :  Recently, Food & Wine Magazine listed us as one of their favorite cafes in Seattle, going on to deem us the least snobby on the list! We pride ourselves on offering a pleasant and genuine space to enjoy good music and good coffee.

Neighborhood:  Capitol Hill

Address:  1517 14th Ave, Seattle WA 98122

Music playing:  Shake by Sam Cooke

What we ate/drank:  Macchiato

Comments:  Porchlight Coffee & Records has been around since 2009. The first time I went there they were located around the corner right on Pike, but are now located on 14th between Pike and Pine on the east end of Capitol Hill.

The space really reminds me of Revolutions Coffee in terms of how big the space is, the configuration, the white walls, how it’s bright in the front, but kinda dark towards the back. And both use beans roasted by Herkimer.  One difference is that Porchlight does have rotating art that is lowbrow in nature, which I like.  I have to give props to Porchlight for turning me on to an artist named, Adrian Tomine and I ended up ordering a print called, “1965”.  They also have a Porchblog on their website that reports about new music, events, new art.

Porchlight also doubles as a record store, although I didn’t see a record player. Seems to be a common theme of records and coffee in Seattle. I know Convoy Coffee, Slate Coffee Roasters and Analog Coffee have record players and you also have Victrola Coffee Roasters that has the phonograph as its logo.

There are a few tables right outside the store front, there’s a brown leather couch with a couple of tree stump tables. The rest are 6 pedestal tables that each have two white wooden chairs.  The record section is located in the back. And as mentioned earlier while it is quite bright in the front, towards the back it gets darker.  I noticed they also have beers and a limited pastries section.

Ratings(1-5)Favorite Thing: Their Porchblog that reports about new music, events, new art

Atmosphere:  4.00

Service:  4.50

Food Options:   3.75

Overall:  4.00

Eavedropping  Convo: None. But did you know that Porchlight Coffee & Records is actually featured in an Uber video

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