Okay, check these out. Was at Irwin's today enjoying an enormous cinnamon roll with my daughter. We looked up at the wall next to us and noticed some paintings in suspiciously familiar brown tints. Yes, these are paintings done in espresso. Two are copies of Van Goghs (did he drink a lot of coffee?) and one is an original composition. Wow, makes you wonder with so much of the stuff around, what else could we do with it? If you got…
Wednesday was Mosaic's third anniversary. For those of you who don't know, this is a coffee house where you decide how much you want to pay. And they've been doing this successfully. For three years. Kind of restores your faith in human nature, doesn't it? Mosaic is located in the basement of Seattle First Church of the Nazarene, on 2nd Ave and 44th Street, right behind Dick's. It's slightly dark and very spacious with lots of old couches, armchairs, heavy tables,…
Wallyhood is pleased as punch to announce our newest feature: a complete business listing of all the restaurants, bars, coffee and dessert shops in Wallingford! Each listing has a map, links to reviews on Yelp, The Stranger, The Seattle P-I, etc. as well as a list of mentions in Wallyhood. For example, see this review of Avila or Molly Moon's. Best of all, there's an opportunity for you, the people of Wallingford, to comment on and rate the shops. So, what's…
It's that time of year when the rain forces us indoors, depriving us of heat and light from the sun. It makes us want to buy a big ol' pie and retreat to a remote corner somewhere in the house to devour said pie in three bites. Or, maybe that's just me. Either way, it's National Pie Day on Saturday, January 23 and to mark this joyous occasion, Fuel Coffee is offering discounts on 7" deep dish pies and Flipsides (handheld…
(Wallyhood reader Ryan G. sent in this fine review of little known but much loved coffee house, Kuma Coffee) We live in Seattle where it’s ok to be a coffee snob. And that is a good thing. We have some of the greatest independent coffee shops in the country in our own back yard… Vivace, Victrola, Stumptown, Lladro, Fuel… you get the idea. We also have one in our neighborhood that you may never have heard of- Kuma, the storefront coffee…
Amy tipped us off that a new cafe has opened in the spot vacated by Starbucks back in April, on the northwest corner of Stone Way and 45th. Sounds like it's called Cafe Approcionta (or something like that) and Adriana tells us it's locally-owned. West Wallingford, we want more details! Does it have wi-fi? Baked goods? How's the foam?' Update: We had the name wrong, it's Cafe Appassionato, and the reports are good. Lisa writes: Caffé Appassionato (45th and Stone) is…
Last week, we posted a contest: suggest a new set of poetry for the window of Open Books and we'll pick our favorite and one at random to receive a bag of locally roasted Pangaea Oganica Coffee. At the time, we mentioned that we hadn't actually checked with the owners of Open Books as to whether they would take our suggestions. Well, we did drop them a note and, wouldn't you know it, between the last time we walked by their…