Caffe Ladro – Fremont

Caffe Ladro – Fremont

Description on  Caffe Ladro’s website:Visit Caffe Ladro in 15 different neighborhoods in the Seattle, Washington area. Each of our cafés is unique and built to suit the neighborhood where it makes its home. You will find the same great coffee and fresh-baked goods at any Caffe Ladro location you visit.

Neighborhood:  Fremont

Address: 452 N 36th St, Seattle, WA 98103

Music Playing: It’s A Jungle Out There-Buddy Guy, Let the Good Times Roll-BB King, Bleeding Heart – Jimmy D Lane

What we ate/drank: Gibraltar

Comments:   This is the 4th Caffe Ladro we’re writing about. In a previous Caffe Ladro review, we mentioned that each branch has a very distinct feel. For example the one located in downtown on Pine Street, we call, The “Jetsons Caffe Ladro”.   This one in Fremont we call, “The Library Caffe Ladro”.  Why? This one has three sets of long tables that have the little lamps on them that you see in university libraries.

In addition to the library style tables, there are 6 or 7 smaller marble tables and counter seating all along the front looking out on N 36th.

I’m not sure if they always play this type of music in this location, but on the morning we went they were playing the blues-Buddy Guy, BB King, Jimmy D Lane. The music definitely adds to the laid back relaxing atmosphere of this location. This location is the exact opposite of The Jetsons Ladro, which has a very futuristic feel to it. This Ladro has an old nostalgic feel-exposed wood beams, warm lighting from Edison bulbs, beautiful huge wooden window frames.

Ratings(1-5)

Favorite Thing: The library style lights on the bigger tables.

Atmosphere:  4.00

Service: 4.50

Food Options: 3.75

Overall: 4.25

Eavedropping  Convo: As you can tell by the pictures, we ended up going here very early in the morning. This would be the perfect time to have a personal discussion with your boss outside of business hours. The weird thing is this conversation happened on a weekend morning and it was definitely a boss-underling conversation.

Boss(B):  Why did you want to meet this early?

Underling(U): I just felt I needed to get some things off my chest before I made any rash decisions.  

B: The floor is yours

U: I feel that some of the things promised are not being followed through on. You said you would mentor me, but it seems you are spending way more time mentoring the others and I want to know why. Is it because I’m not as pushy? Are you too busy? I want to improve, prove myself and get promoted as I’ve mentioned before, so how do I do this?

B: Sure, sure Ok. Fair enough. I’ve probably been more occupied with some of the others because they’re more outspoken. They’re go-getters and you know actions speak louder than words.

U: I don’t want you to mistake my quietness for not wanting do improve.

B: Sure, OK.   But in my defense, you have never asked to meet until now. I want to give you every opportunity, but you’ve never asked for feedback.

U: I feel like, you should be the one to provide feedback to me because I don’t know.

B: Sure, sure Ok. Well, first you need to improve your grammar in your correspondences. Your use of plurals and pronouns needs work.

B always started his responses off saying, “Sure, sure OK”.  Also, as you can see B got quite defensive and once that happened B went on the offensive and was painfully blunt.  Not only did he say U had to improve on her grammar, but also talked about her getting to work earlier, staying later, being more outspoken in meetings, meeting deadlines that she thought were unrealistic. Once B was finished, he asked U, “How will you prove this to me”?  Savage.

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