Armistice Coffee – Roosevelt

Armistice Coffee – Roosevelt

Description on  Armistice Coffee’s website:Her dream was big but the journey was long, pulling hundreds of thousands of shots and waking up earlier than the rooster for years, she pushed on and overcame. Now in the role of head roaster, manager, and basically everything else Rebecca Smith has been running Armistice Coffee for 1 year and has two locations in Seattle.

Neighborhood:Roosevelt

Address: 6717 Roosevelt Way NE UNIT A, Seattle, WA 98115

Music Playing:  Poison by Brent Faiyaz

What we ate/drank: Cortado, 12 oz Americano, blueberry scone, ham & Swiss croissant, mocha, mighty o sprinkle doughnut

Comments:  This is the 2^ndlocation for Armistice Coffee in addition to their other location in Eastlake.  Some of the observations we made in our review of the Eastlake locations was that we felt it wasn’t really conducive to working on a laptop due to the limited work style seating. The Armistice Coffee – Roosevelt has no such restrictions.

It has a multitude of seating areas and types of seating areas. It has counter seating near the serving area, counter seating looking out on Roosevelt, individual tables, a community table with two separate outdoor seating area, one that includes a fire pit.   

Armistice Coffee – Roosevelt is located on the ground floor of the brand new Lucille on Roosevelt apartments, so they probably had complete control of the design, which we really like.  We’ve already mentioned the variety of seating, but take a look at our photos and you can see the details. Chic modern lighting, outdoor lighting that from a distance look like fireflies, being surrounded on all four sides by windows,  the coffee roasting equipment on display.

My understanding is that as of now, the roaster is not being used. The cashier mentioned that an alteration may need to be made for exhaust purposes but she wasn’t really sure.   I think it’s a real treat when you get to witness the roasting process at places like Herkimer Coffee, Elm Coffee Roasters, Lighthouse Coffee Roasters and Victrola Coffee Roasters.  I think it’s really a great “Seattle”experience for visitors who come form areas that don’t have local coffee roasters like we do in coffee-centric Seattle.

Armistice Coffee – Roosevelt also sells alcoholic drinks- wine, beer, sipping tequilla, whiskeys(Basil Hayden, Jameson, Glenlivet 12 yr) and a few simple mixed drinks such as gin and tonic, vodka and soda and Irish coffee.

They also have croissants, muffins, scones, quiches, and a few pre-made sandwiches and salads from White Knuckle.  Sign say Mon-Fri 6-10 and Sat and Sun 7-10, so open pretty late.

The music they’ve played during our visits are pretty soothing music. Examples –  Escape by Kehlani,Tainted by Alina Baraz, Apple Juice by Jessie Reyez.

On a few of my visits the wifi has been a little inconsistent, so take note if you intend to work there and need to Facetime/Skype.

Ratings(1-5)

Favorite Thing: The various seating areas both inside and out.

Atmosphere:  4.75

Service: 4.75

Food Options: 4.75

Overall: 4.75

Eavedropping  Convo: Two guys sitting next to each other on separate tables with their laptops. Seems like they might be acquaintances who see each other at Armistice Coffee – Roosevelt a lot and might recognize each other and make small talk. Both made business calls while we were there, so this might be one of their working spaces.

Guy 1(G1) – Check out this thing I just got on Amazon.

Guy2(G2) – Looks over. Whoa, that’s pretty cool! And wow, it’s a pretty reasonable price.

G1 – Oh, man. It’s not reasonable. This is cheap!

G2 – The next time my mom orders something on Amazon, I’ll ask her to add one to her cart for me. I don’t have an account, so I just use hers and pay her back.

G1- Dude, you gotta get on that! Prime is so cheap and they deliver to your doorstep in one day! Don’t put your poor mom through that – ordering, paying and handing the packages. C’mon.

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