Seattle, WA
Great Coffee In Seattle – Live and Let's Fly
How do you find great coffee in a city like Seattle known for its great coffee? In my case, I did not have to look far…
Best Coffee In Seattle
After a flight delay into Seattle, I was ready for my afternoon cup of coffee. While my hotel, the Hyatt Olive 8, had a highly-regarded café, I ventured directly across the street to a chain called Mr West Cafe Bar.
Mr West Cafe Bar Downtown
720 Olive Way, Seattle, WA 98101
(206) 900-9378
7:00 am – 7:00 pm (Monday – Friday)
8:00 am – 7:00 pm (Saturday, Sunday)
The dining room has a four-sided bar in the center with seating around it. You can order food (menu in hte link above) and alcohol after 3:00 pm, as well as coffee. I stuck to coffee.
Very simple: a cortado at 3:00 pm holds me over for the rest of the day. I don’t drink coffee for the caffeine, though I notice that a mid to late-afternoon coffee helps me to get through the day. Generally, I do not set alarms and I do not need coffee first thing when I wake up in the morning, meaning I drink coffee more for the taste.
The coffee was excellent and I quite enjoyed my cortado.
As I mentioned, I stayed at the Hyatt Olive 8 which has excellent coffee in the O8 Bagel Shop.
O8 Bagel Shop
1635 8th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101
(206) 676-4600
6:30 am – 1:00 pm (daily)
Thumbs down for not serving coffee in a ceramic cup, but the cortado here was excellent…good enough that I had two of them and took a bag of coffee home.
Finally, on my way out of town, I walked up the street and stopped at a place called Monorail Coffee, named after Seattle’s vintage Monorail system. This too is a chain.
Monorail Espresso
1004 Pine Street, Seattle, WA 98101
8:00 am – 4:00 pm (Monday – Friday)
9:00 am – 5:00 pm (Saturday, Sunday)
I had passed it the previous night (when going for Mexican food) and examined the menu and was glad I made the trip back up. Yes, another cortado…my drink of choice…but this was the best cortado of the four I had and it was served in a ceramic cup…a big plus.
I will certainly return here.
It’s fair to say that Seattle is full of great coffee shops…there are probably many more I should try next time and I welcome your recommendations.
Seattle, WA
Seattle faces Indiana, looks for 6th straight home win
Indiana Fever (7-11, 6-7 Eastern Conference) at Seattle Storm (10-6, 4-5 Western Conference)
Seattle; Thursday, 9 p.m. CDT on Prime Video
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK: LINE Storm -8; over/under is 166.5
BOTTOM LINE: Seattle Storm will try to keep its five-game home win streak alive when the Storm take on Indiana Fever.
The Storm have gone 5-1 in home games. Seattle ranks fourth in the WNBA with 27.4 defensive rebounds per game led by Ezi Magbegor averaging 6.4.
The Fever are 3-7 on the road. Indiana has a 2-2 record in games decided by less than 4 points.
Seattle is shooting 42.9% from the field this season, 2.2 percentage points lower than the 45.1% Indiana allows to opponents. Indiana has shot at a 44.1% clip from the field this season, 2.3 percentage points higher than the 41.8% shooting opponents of Seattle have averaged.
The Storm and Fever meet Thursday for the first time this season.
TOP PERFORMERS: Magbegor is averaging 13.3 points, 9.6 rebounds, 1.6 steals and 2.5 blocks for the Storm.
Aliyah Boston is averaging 13 points and 7.9 rebounds for the Fever.
LAST 10 GAMES: Storm: 7-3, averaging 82.2 points, 35.7 rebounds, 20.5 assists, 9.9 steals and 5.9 blocks per game while shooting 43.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 77.1 points per game.
Fever: 6-4, averaging 83.2 points, 32.2 rebounds, 21.2 assists, 5.6 steals and 4.6 blocks per game while shooting 45.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 86.4 points.
INJURIES: Storm: MacKenzie Holmes: out for season (knee).
Fever: Temi Fagbenle: out (foot).
Seattle, WA
Summer violence renews calls to address Seattle Police shortage
Crime scene after crime scene, victim after victim — Summer 2024 is off to a violent start in Seattle. But the head of Seattle’s Police Officers Guild says that, in a season when crimes reaches its peak, he expects more cops to leave the force.
Seattle, WA
How long will Seattle Seahawks' rival continue its NFC West reign?
The Seattle Seahawks were the class of the NFC in the early 2010s, back when they reached back-to-back Super Bowls and were a perennial contender with Russell Wilson, Marshawn Lynch and their famed Legion of Boom defense.
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In recent years, however, their biggest division rival has been the NFC’s preeminent force.
The San Francisco 49ers have made four NFC Championship game appearances in the past five seasons, including a pair of trips to the Super Bowl. During that span, they have won three NFC West titles and reached the 12-win mark three times.
How much longer will the 49ers remain atop the NFC West? Pro Football Focus lead NFL analyst Sam Monson was asked that question Tuesday on Seattle Sports’ Bump and Stacy. Seahawks fans probably won’t like the answer.
“I don’t think the 49ers are going away any time soon,” Monson said.
San Francisco remains loaded with talent on both sides of the ball. PFF has the 49ers at No. 1 in their current power rankings with point spread team rating of 6.4, which means they would be a 6.4-point favorite over a league-average team on a neutral field. The Kansas City Chiefs are second at 6.1. No other team is above 4.5.
San Francisco has a whopping eight players who were graded by PFF as top-five players at their positions last season: Tight end George Kittle (No. 1), running back Christian McCaffrey (No. 2), wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk (No. 2), left tackle Trent Williams (No. 2), linebacker Fred Warner (No. 2), edge rusher Nick Bosa (No. 3), cornerback Charvarius Ward (No. 5) and right guard Jon Feliciano (No. 5). And of course, they also have quarterback Brock Purdy, who finished No. 1 in ESPN’s QBR metric last season as a second-year pro.
“I think they’re probably still (atop the NFC West) for a couple of years, and in particular if Brock Purdy continues playing at the kind of level he was playing at last season,” Monson said. “There’s a debate as to how much of it is him, and how much of it is the system, how much of it is (coach Mike) Shanahan, how much of it is the weaponry around him. To an extent, it doesn’t really matter whether he’s a big piece of that puzzle or a smaller piece. As long as the puzzle remains in tact, they’re gonna be phenomenal.”
Purdy still has two seasons left on his rookie contract, which gives San Francisco some salary cap flexibility to continue paying its slew of other top players.
“It only becomes a problem once he signs a big-money contract, and then that starts to have an effect on guys like Brandon Aiyuk and Deebo Samuel, and suddenly they have to start shipping off a couple of those players,” Monson said. “That’s when it does matter if he’s not a huge piece of that overall puzzle. But I think that’s a few years away.”
The Aiyuk drama
There has been a bit of drama in the Bay Area surrounding Aiyuk, who is heading into the final year of his rookie contract.
In a recent video he posted to TikTok, Aiyuk told former college teammate and current Washington Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels on a FaceTime call: “They said they don’t want me back.” As ESPN reported, it’s unclear whether Aiyuk is implying the 49ers don’t want him back this season, or whether they don’t want to pay him for a long-term contract extension. According to ESPN’s Ryan Clark, Aiyuk and the 49ers are meeting this week.
“I think they can probably keep Brandon Aiyuk if they want to do that,” Monson said. “And if they didn’t, I would imagine they would’ve traded him away already at this stage. So I imagine they’re gonna keep that group. Even if they lose one of Aiyuk and Deebo Samuel, they’ve already sort of been drafting for that contingency, with (first-round draft pick) Ricky Pearsall coming in to what is already a ridiculously loaded skill position group.”
Listen to the full conversation with PFF’s Sam Monson at this link or in the audio player near the top of this story. Tune in to Bump and Stacy weekdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. or find the podcast on the Seattle Sports app.
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