It’s right across the street from the Greenwood Space Travel Supply Co. Inside and out it’s a café that finds a perfect balance of sleepy and hip, busy and leisurely, with its baby blue interior fit with finished plywood cabinetry and rail station-style benches lining the back wall, complete with power strips every ten feet. Show posters cover the wall by the front door.
The mood at Neptune Coffee is pleasant and very workable: as I write this an enormous Mastiff named Oscar who came in with a young woman is making friends with a couple who are scratching his head asking, “Will you come home with us?” This is my kind of place.
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85th, cafe, coffee, Greenwood, Neptune, north Seattle, Seattle
by Alex Russell
The intersection of N 130th St. and Linden Ave. N in north Seattle is always busy, something I’m sure Clarissa, the owner of Seattle Mobile Espresso counted on when she signed the lease. From my counter seat I can watch the world go by through the floor-to-ceiling windows that frame the front of the cafe. Small children run awkwardly through the woodchip and plastic play structure across the street at Bitterlake Park. Cars and trucks rush up and down 130th. Pedestrians of all kinds—locals out for a stroll or running errands, students with backpacks and pants sagging as they take their time getting home—all enjoy the unlikely afternoon sun.
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Bitterlake, Broadview, cafe, coffee, latte, north Seattle, tea