Comments on One Last Cappucino with a Park View

This makes me inexplicably sad. I don't want to walk down to Brix to Vivace. I want it to stay by Cal Anderson Park and that Socialist Revolutionary bookstore. Fuck all y'all.

In other Vivace news, they recently corrected their only recognizable flaw, swapping out their big weird bowl-style cups for humbly gorgeous diner-style cups. Now they're officially perfect.

Small sacrifice to make for getting from Capitol Hill to Sea-Tac ...

Diner style cups are cool, tho.

@2 While the light-rail will be nice, I want a nice cup of coffee and a park view much more often than I go to Sea-Tac.

Of course you're right—I can't wait to ride a train to the airport—but I just wanted to do some Roasteria-appreciating whining before it was too late.

So are they tearing down that building? That would seriously suck... not to mention that they're moving to a terribly condo building blah!

The stand is going to be BUSY!!!

@1 I find the sadness to be wholly explicable: my life on capitol hill in the 1990's was an aimless smear of college, strange boyfriends, existential uncertainty, and the heady jolt of the dot com boom. One of the few constants was this great cafe with a view of the reservoir and the many friendships which revolve around it. The name and many of the people may pick up and move a few blocks North, but that room will soon be gone forever.

That's one of my favorite spots in the world. C'est la vie.

Fuck I'm really high right now....

Dang. I don't live in Seattle, New Orleans actually, but I was in Seattle last October and my friend took me to that Vivace. It is a beautiful location, and I loved sipping my coffee looking out over the park. I'm glad I got to enjoy it those few days I was there.

From what I can see at the bus stop next to Brix lately, I would say they have stopped work. Maybe there is a construction dispute.

@11 speaks for me. I've heard the Vivace baristas say that the opening date for Vivace in Brix keeps getting pushed back.

I moved here the year the orignal Vivace opened - 1988. I remember the opera diva barista (and my voice teacher) at the original cart in front of Washington Mutual. I remember the failed attempt at a cart downtown, where lawyers stole from the tip jar. But most of all, I remember my amazement upon seeing the giant Renaissance-esque painting David Schomer had commissioned for the Roasteria. "This place is going to be awesome," I remember thinking. And it was.

Can't we have Vivace be the espresso purveyors for the light rail station when it opens???

There's no way that Brix is ready by Labor Day, 2008...