Ballard Coffee Works

Pike Place and Capitol Hill are well known coffee culture sanctuary but Seattle seems to have "hideaways" in a neighborhood.  

Ballard, a neighborhood located in the northwestern part of Seattle, is one of the outstanding/focused area, where a many high-end apartments are now under construction.  Along Market St., on the corner of Market St. and 22nd Ave., there are three cafes, including Starbucks, gather and welcome us with nice coffee aroma.

Ballard Coffee works seems to the busiest cafe I have ever visited in Seattle.  At 7 AM, there are already a line for a cup and only few seat open.  Revisited at 9 PM, the cafe is still packed with people even on a weekday.     

Ballard Coffee Works belongs to Seattle Coffee Works located on Pike St., between 2nd and 1st Ave., near Pike Place Market.  Reading their history, there is a similar story to the one Storyville Coffee company has.  The capital of Coffee could not satisfy "coffee nuts" with the biggest expectation toward "coffee sanctuary", then "coffee nuts" begin roastery to meet their own expectation together with providing "real" coffee to people to create a genuine sanctuary.  

Spending years, heir business grows gradually.  In 2012, Seattle Coffee Works opened a second cafe in Ballard, called Ballard Coffee Works.  

Ballard Coffee Works is filled with warm atmosphere, warm enough to sit for hours and hours to make the space as our personal office.  The space is supplied with high speed WIFI, number of outlets, lots enough to call personal outlets assigned each seats!, and hide-away seat locations.  Actually, there are many occupies seats "working" there.  

Besides espresso drink and machine made drip coffee, there were specialty coffee choices with Aeropress, CEMEX, V60 and maybe others.  Espresso drinks were priced reasonably, maybe a bit lower than average price range, thus quality was good enough.  The choice of visiting day was Cafe latte with soy milk.  
Flavor of soy latte tastes satisfying for morning cups minus the form of soy milk is a little bit fuzzy.  Some may say espresso is weak for latte, depending on your　taste.