Whenever I am on the east side of the lake, I know finding a good coffee is going to be hard. However, Victor's does a mean cup of your favorite "specialty" coffee. They have a lot of variations up on their board, like the tangerine mocha or such. That's nice, but I love a good cappuccino and they do them well, and they are the only decent coffee house for miles and miles as far as I know. The place sometimes feels more like Missoula than Redmond/Seattle, due to the wood cabin decor style, the more casual college-town feel and the porch-like deck out front. On weekends, try Walter's famous waffles too. Not like those tasteless dry things that pass for waffles in most restaurants in the US, these are much closer to the wonderful treats I used to get growing up in Europe. I think Walter is Swiss, which would explain that. Yummy. [An odd aside: While in Cannon Beach, OR, haphazardly I went to a coffee place run by the "Victor" namesake and his wife, who sold the place to Walter but still supply the roasts.]
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