Sunday the Seattle Urban sketchers met for their monthly sketch outing at the new Starbucks Reserve Roastery and Tasting Room. It is an interesting place, conceptually described as the Willy Wonka Factory of Coffee. There you can see roasting vats and silos of coffee beans with pneumatic tubes racing around the place transporting beans from one place to another. This place is humming with people and activity, coffee and tea and Tom Douglas's Serious Pie. It is pretty overwhelming. I stationed myself at immediately at an outside window looking toward the coffee bar and got an overall view of the place. Next time I will walk around and sketch some other interesting parts of the place.
In that neighborhood down the street is a Melrose Market a wonderful interior space fill with small market stalls, a butcher, flower shop, restaurant, wine tasting bar and other vendors.
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| Starbucks Reserve Roastery and Tasting Room |
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| Melrose Market |
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| Signage on Melrose St. |
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