Anchorhead Coffee

Anchorhead Coffee ranks 1st on the list of the best Seattle coffee shops. This shop might be a Duvall-based roastery, but its retail location in Seattle is hard to beat. The intimate, cozy interior and the high-quality coffee beans provide quality over quantity. While they offer single-origin coffee beans from many different locations, their most popular batches come from Ethiopia. They also have fresh baked goods to pair with their top-notch brew, so it’s a great place to settle in and engage with friends. With many repeat customers and regulars that they know by name, Anchorhead Coffee strives to be a part of the community.

In Anchorhead Coffee, the housemade quaffle (essentially the pastry love child of a croissant and a waffle) provides an enlightened pairing to Anchorhead’s dialed-in espresso drinks. A traditional table setup mixes with bar seating to encourage lounging, laptop sessions, or morning meetups—all without losing the sense that this is, in fact, still a specialty coffee shop. No wonder the Seventh Avenue location has spawned siblings in Pike Place Market and Bellevue (with a two-story bakery and training lab coming this winter to 12th Avenue).

Google Rating: 4.6/5

Location: CenturyLink Plaza, 1600 7th Ave Ste 105, Seattle, WA 98101

Website: https://anchorheadcoffee.com/

Hours: 6:30 am - 18:00 pm