Revolutions Coffee

Revolutions Coffee   

Description on Revolutions Coffee website: Coffee As A Conduit To Community and Conversation 

Neighborhood: Green Lake 

Address: 7208 East Green Lake Drive North, Seattle WA 98115 

Music playing:  My Kind of Woman-Mac Dermarco 

What we ate/drank:  Americano 

Comments: This Revolutions Coffee is a new location, opened in early July, that couldn’t be more different from its old version. The old location was down the street a few blocks. I remember it had bright red and deep blue walls and concrete floors with different rugs all over. It was spacious, warm and conducive for big group gatherings.

The new location is very sparse, smaller and very minimalist. Where before there seemed to be big groups having conversations, now it’s like a library with people studying/working.  This is neither bad, nor good, just such a huge transformation.

It’s also now right across from Green Lake Park, which is one of the reasons they decided to move once the location came open in the Spring of 2016. It’s super quiet. 7 people on their computers. Nobody was talking so if anybody had a conversation, you could hear it.

You can tell from the picture that it can get rather dark especially near the middle and back since the good amount of sunlight comes from the front windows. Because the place is long and narrow, the main sunlight is in the front. All their coffee is roasted by Herkimer, which has a retail location down the street on The Ave.

Ratings(Scale 1-5)

Favorite Thing: Whenever a guy came into order, the barista would greet him by saying, “What can I get for you, my brotha?”

Atmosphere: 3

Service:  5 

Food Options:  3.5

Overall:  3.75

Eavesdropping Convos:    

Customer(C)-On his phone waiting to order- He’s already there?! I’ll be there in 5 minutes. Gets off phone to order. 

Barista(B)-What can I get for you, my brotha? 

C-I’m just getting a turkey sandwich. I’m interviewing somebody and I’m five minutes late. I’m just dragging coming back from a three day weekend. Totally not in the mood to be doing an interview right now. I’m going to finish this interview real quick and head home early.   

I’m pretty certain the interviewee had no chance at getting hired.