Seattle Coffee Works

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Roasting right next to the cafe affords us the ability to always have the freshest coffees on sale. Often, you'll find that the oldest coffee you can buy from us was roasted the same day. Any coffee you buy will never have been roasted more than a week before you pick it up. For our mail order customers, we roast to order. That means we roast and ship the same day.

Roasting downtown gives our customers the opportunity to experience coffee roasting first hand. In fact, when you're visiting our cafe, please stop by in the adjacent roastery. We love visitors!

Early on in our history we made a commitment to delivering the highest possible quality of goods and service to our customers.

If we can, we source our coffees directly from the farmers who grow them. With these farmers, we form a strong bond. We negotiate a fair price with them. (Usually we ask them what they need to produce really good coffee.) We receive and give feedback on the quality and possible quality improvements to these farmers, and we cut out all middlemen. We find that by doing so, we're solving many issues important to us: we know personally that our farmers treat their workers fairly; we can avoid the use of pesticides and inorganic fertilizers; moneys often put into certification can go directly to the farmers. Ultimately, we find that our direct relationship with farmers helps us get the best quality of coffee possible. The incentives are aligned.

Building working relationships directly with farmers takes time. We're working diligently on increasing our reach. Eventually, we aim to source all of our coffees directly from farmers.

In the meantime, our primary objective is to source only the highest quality coffees not only for our own good, but because we believe that high-quality also means better business for the growers.

We think of ourselves as part of the slow-food movement. When it comes to food and coffee, we prefer less quantity and higher quality.