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George Coffee and Pastries

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1317 Northeast 47th Street

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George Coffee and Pastries sits on NE 47th in the U District, two blocks off the Ave and a few from the UW campus. The shop is women-owned, set in a hundred-year-old building that the team restored before opening. George roasts its own coffee in small batch, bakes the pastries on site, and seats fifty in a vintage-leaning room papered with posters from local plays and shows. The signature is the À la George croissant, prosciutto and havarti folded into the dough. Mexican mochas come with a marshmallow on top. Hours run seven to seven daily. Dogs are allowed. Validated parking in the U District counts as a small miracle. Order the À la George croissant and a mocha if you came to see why students hike here on weekend mornings. Order the pistachio cream cold brew if you came in season and want the drink the bar is most proud of.

About Seattle

Seattle coffee predates most American specialty markets by decades. Pegasus Coffee opened in 1983 inside the Dexter Horton Building, the old First National Bank headquarters founded in 1870, and was the first storefront in downtown Seattle to serve specialty coffee over the counter. Espresso Vivace followed in 1988 when David Schomer and Geneva Sullivan opened a cart, and Schomer went on to bring latte art to the United States after a trip to Milan. The Vivace bar still runs in the Brix building on Broadway East in Capitol Hill.

The neighborhood map sits east of downtown. Capitol Hill carries the densest cluster, with Espresso Vivace, Victrola Coffee Roasters in a 1920s auto row building on East Pike, Analog Coffee on Summit Avenue, and Porchlight Coffee and Records on 14th Avenue between Pine and Pike, which opened in 2009 and became a record store the year after. South Lake Union holds Cafe Hagen at 800 5th Avenue North, founded by Maria Beck in December 2019 around Scandinavian and Danish bakery traditions, with the cafe doubling as the Hagen Coffee Roasters production roastery.

The wider city covers a long radius. The U District runs through George Coffee and Pastries on NE 47th. Rainier Beach holds Winnie's Ethiopian Coffee on Rainier Avenue South, where Woina roasts Ethiopian beans in small batch and pours through traditional ceremony for those who order it that way. South Park keeps the Pacific Northwest drive-through bikini espresso tradition alive through LadyBug Bikini Espresso. The result is a city where the bar discipline runs deep and the working network covers around 199 active specialty rooms.