A long time, a family of four landed in Seattle from the far away land of California. For the first several weeks they stayed in a non-descript apartment building close to Pike Place Market. One member of the family was a coffee, well, nut. He had heard that Seattle was the capital of coffee. A trip to the close-by "Seattle's Best" was disappointing to say the least. The family scoured Pike Place Market in search of great coffee, and there was none. Disillusionment started setting in.

After some time, the family moved away from downtown Seattle to a more permanent house. The plumber came to install the washing machine. A little home espresso maker was waiting to be plugged in. The coffee nut made an espresso for the plumber. A terrible espresso. The plumber said: "Let me show you the best coffee in Seattle." That week on Saturday, the coffee nut and the plumber went to a hole in wall in Eastlake. The coffee nut had a Macchiato. That is how Seattle Coffee Works came to be.

Later, in the fall of 2006, we opened our first store in a t-shirt shop on Pike Street in downtown Seattle. The beginnings were modest. We had our grand opening on Memorial Day in 2007, and the rest is history, as they say.