Pegasus Coffee

Pegasus on 3rd Avenue sits inside the Dexter Horton Building, the old First National Bank headquarters founded in 1870, with a separate entrance opening straight onto the sidewalk. The shop opened in 1983 as the first storefront in downtown Seattle to serve specialty coffee over the counter, and the beans still come from the original Bainbridge Island roastery that started in 1979. There is an upstairs loft for laptops and a downstairs bar for the in-and-out crowd. Mornings are courthouse staff and finance workers who have been ordering the same drink for two decades. Pastries come in fresh and disappear by noon. Order a drip coffee and a pastry if you want a quiet thirty minutes upstairs before your 9am. Order an espresso to-go if you work in the building and the line at the chains has gotten longer than the elevator.