every sunday i go to seattle for my volunteer gig at left bank books (one great bookstore) and before i go in to the bookstore i always, always have to get a cup of coffee at Local Color. i always... More

every sunday i go to seattle for my volunteer gig at left bank books (one great bookstore) and before i go in to the bookstore i always, always have to get a cup of coffee at Local Color. i always order the soy white choco mocha and i am always blissfully content. i've been a barista for a year so i pretty much stopped drinking coffee but Local Color revived my faith in caffeine. Great artworks too, the baristas are super-friendly even if they're always awfully busy.
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I don't drink coffee, but when I was looking for a good cup of hot chocolate, I stopped in here. SOOOO good! I'm pretty picky about hot chocolate (can't be the powder stuff, it has to be hershey's... More

I don't drink coffee, but when I was looking for a good cup of hot chocolate, I stopped in here. SOOOO good! I'm pretty picky about hot chocolate (can't be the powder stuff, it has to be hershey's syrup). All the starbucks in the area use powder. We happened to be down on the waterfront and stopped in. What a pleasant suprise! Friendly staff and awesome atmosphere!
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Two blocks south of the world’s first Starbuck’s (with the original mermaid on its sign), along the cobblestoned Pike Place of Pike Place Market, are the makers of my favorite blended mochas. I have... More

Two blocks south of the world’s first Starbuck’s (with the original mermaid on its sign), along the cobblestoned Pike Place of Pike Place Market, are the makers of my favorite blended mochas. I have added to this post after reading that of Jen J., who doesn’t drink coffee, because I realize now that I’m not a connoisseur either; when I used to imagine I was craving a blended mocha, what I longed for was something that didn’t exist. Every summer I used to swoon at the advertisements for Starbucks’ Frappuccinos and Pete’s . . . whatever they were called; each billboard showed about four versions of the icy chocolatey whipped creamy drinks, with different shades of chocolate and butterscotch drizzled on top. I thought they were what I wanted. But when I ordered, the ice was always too icy, the chocolate too cloying, the coffee itself too syrupy sweet. I began to wonder if the coffee was a deciding factor in the drink’s downfall, and started asking for the virgin versions. These I liked better, but they were still too high on ice and sickening syrups, and lacking in creaminess. I decided that what I really wanted was a milkshake, and the other day when I heard about the Baskin Robbins’ Cappuccino Blast I thought I had found the answer. But these were the iciest of all. Then I remembered something I never should have forgotten. The summer my husband and I were buskers at Pike Place Market (2003), we found what for me was and is the only perfect coffee shop, making the only perfect blended mochas: Local Color. Not too icy, these drinks are much more like thick, creamy milkshakes than those of Baskin Robbins. They have EXACTLY the right amount of coffee and chocolate—not too strong, not too sugary—and even the whipped cream is only lightly sweetened—to perfection. This is clearly what a Frappuccino dreams of being.
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This is one of my favorite coffee shops to go to. Not only for the coffee but for the art and great employees. Every month they have new art so its not the same ole stuff all the time. Good prices... More

This is one of my favorite coffee shops to go to. Not only for the coffee but for the art and great employees. Every month they have new art so its not the same ole stuff all the time. Good prices too!! They even have a open house the first Saturday of the month with wine and cheese and you can meet the artists. It is alot of fun. Also the employees there are marvelous. They are all nice and take care of you. Great place for the kids too as there is a little art area for the kids to draw and color and hang up their artwork. Check it out!!
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