Peet’s Coffee & Tea

Coffee is just okay, I suppose, tho one must traverse a wall of ancillary merchandise on first walking in. Windows facing 15^th are half-​obscured with more junk. Staff try to be $tarbux friendly but seem either standoffish or kinda too friendly. Definitely some creepy cronyism operating there too.
Worst part is that seating for writers is AWFUL — sorry, don’t often shout in reviews — and there are practically no wall sockets for laptop power. Tried sitting in the corner couch-​seat but it was way too soft and low for the sticky table before it. Walked out — forget trying to be creative there.
I can’t believe most of the bland, general-​purpose fivestar reviews for this store. It’s just not that good, and the gushing, over-​the-​top superlatives whiff of shillism.

I love strong flavorful coffee. So I LOVE Peet’s. There aren’t too many Peet’s shops in Seattle so my husband and I consider ourselves very lucky to live so close one of the nicest ones. The store itself is spacious, clean, and bright. Plus, the staff is fantastic; they are always super friendly, helpful, and efficient.

On July 1 2012, I went on a diet that cuts my animal protein consumption down to 5% or less per serving. I pretty much gave up dairy altogether (except on rare occasions). Since one of the key ingredients in a latte is milk and I do not like soy milk nor can I be certain whether soy milk is made from GMO soybeans or not, I was so delighted to stop at Peet’s on the day they first introduced almond milk as an option. I tried a single shot 12 ounce latte made with almond milk and in my opinion, it was actually better than a dairy milk latte. In fact, it reminded me more of a breve. WOW! Thank you Peet’s for listening to me and all the other Peet’s customers who have made the switch from dairy milk to almond milk as a delicious and healthier alternative.

Let me start by saying if this review were for the coffee and the baristas, it would be 5 stars. This was my first visit to a Peet’s retail location. I love Peet’s coffee – I am a HUGE Major Dickason’s fan and it’s the only thing I brew at home. This morning, I made a quick stop at the Peet’s near Whole Foods in Interbay and grabbed a large Americano and a lemon/​blackberry frosted scone. As expected, the Americano was perfect. But I was very disappointed that the scone was clearly at least day-​old, maybe older. Once I got to office, I broke off a small corner and it was incredibly dry and hard. I tossed the whole thing. Come on, Peet’s…don’t cheap out on the pastry case and sell day-​old stuff just because the coffee is so good. I hate to say this, but if I only have time to make one stop and need coffee and a bite to eat, I may have to make that stop a Starbuck’s – at least their baked goods are fresh.

Oh this Peets! This staff in this Peets are just awesome. I think they are hands-​down my favorite customer service reps EVER. I somehow always manage to go in here whenever I have had the worst day, or prepping for an interview or just had a bad interview or some other tragedy, and they somehow just know and make it better. They are just so pleasant and really make you feel glad you stopped in and spent $ 3 with them. Whoever trains this staff gets an A+.
The coffee is good too– I am sad that they got rid of the raspberry Godiva mocha, but being Peet’s staff, whenever I whine about this, they make something similar or even better for me to try. And I am always super cranky, so they seem to try even harder, always offering to make something different on the house if I don’t like their suggestion. Which hasn’t happened yet…

Got a gift card for this place but I’ve always heard they make good coffee. Stopped by on the way in to work and those rumors were right on! The coffee is great and service quick and friendly! Can’t wait to go back tomorrow and try some tea!

This Peet’s kind of creeps up on you! I always came here for the Whole Foods Market, but a clean, modern strip mall has kind of built itself into this location complete with their own Peet’s. Lucky bastages. It’s coffee house standard décor. Lots of wood, lots of displays featuring candies, coffee and merchandise. But you definitely should be here for the coffee. I love the varieties of seasonal mochas they offer here and, by golly, one day, I may break down and spend the calories on one!

This was hands down the best barista interaction I’ve had since moving to Seattle six months ago. I don’t drink coffee, but love the coffee house experience. Barista Lauren (maybe Laurel?) was friendly, knowledgeable about the tea selection and not pretentious at all. Will definitely be back.

I have tried coffee shops all over the city and I feel that Peets makes the best mocha. The coffee flavor and the chocolate flavor is perfectly balanced and in a way I can’t explain tastes better than anywhere else I’ve tried. The beans, if bought whole are very high quality and always extremely fresh. Peets is my favorite coffee destination in Seattle and I’m lucky to live near both the Magnolia and Fremont locations. The staff is so friendly too.

There’s lattes and then there’s PEET’S LATTES!!! I have been known to drive across town just to buy THEIR soy pumpkin latte or pumpkin chai tea latte.
By the way, I have tried the seasonal pumpkin drinks at various cafes, common and uncommon places. The biggest standout of this place? Their velvety soy milk!!! How do they turn plain soy milk into this creamy whole-​milk smoothness and creaminess in my mouth? What else? The pumpkin latte tastes like liquid pumpkin pie! Huh? Every other cafes make strictly pumpkin spice lattes, not pumpkin lattes. So good!
My drink was prepared perfectly hot (not scorching. My tongue was fine), smooth and not too sweet. Another downfall of most places, the drinks are so sweet your teeth hurt. Not this place.
The staff members are quick and friendly. I’ve never seen a line when I go so I can’t complain about a wait. Oh, and the place is clean, a plus in my books.

A friend and I wanted to get non-​Starbucks espresso in the Ballard area and actually be able to find a place to park. We happened to find this place. My pumpkin latte was good, my friends espresso was bitter.

Peet’s is the original contemporary US coffee house and still the best. Its where a «medium» is still medium sized. Coffee always has a heavy kick to it. This location is nothing like the Gourmet Ghetto shop in N. Berkeley, but that’s a plus if you do not like to be around professional students rambling to themselves, or burnt out hippies mumbling to each other loitering out front.

One star for playing classical music which is generally conducive to reading, which is what I came here to do. Minus four stars for hipster attitude, making my drink (a no-​fuss, straight-​off-​the-​menu caramel latte) incorrectly twice, for pouring the latte from a paper cup into a ceramic cup instead of remaking it into a ceramic cup (thus totally defeating the purpose of me asking for this to be done in the first place*), and for not having a very comfortable layout as they once did before rearranging all the furniture. Needless to say, I won’t be coming back.
*any barista should know that paper cups absorb the oil from the espresso, resulting in inferior tasting lattes compared to those in a ceramic mug. I’m not usually a coffee snob, but I used to be a corporate barista and this is the bare minimum a corporate barista– such as one from Peet’s– can do to make a corporate latte taste acceptable compared to its locally roasted & prepared brethren. Were we anywhere but Seattle I may have overlooked this, but when the competition is this stiff, even the corporate places need to give a damn about how every cup of coffee is prepared.

Living where Peets was a little more common for a little while switched me from Starbucks — Starbucks seems to get more awful the further away from Seattle you get. Now that I’m back home, I just can’t switch back.
The staff here are definitely more interested in talking to each other than the customers but I don’t go into a coffee place to chat up the employees, so that’s fine. Decently made drinks and quick service are my priorities and these guys get it done pretty well.

It’s interesting how over the years this parcel of Interbay has turned into something else. Sure, it’s more or less a giant strip mall, but before it was just an industrial wasteland. Now there’s at least a Subway, Whole Foods, Thursday Farmer’s Market and…
A Peet’s. In the coffee-​chain wars, I’d sort of forgotten about Peet’s until they opened one here. I’d like to give a shout-​out to their Freddos which are better and smoother than the Starbucks Frappacinos. Plus the staff is generally friendly here and there’s a little space for lounging (check out the two plush chairs near the back wall). At the end of a tiny corridor, there’s a few games should you be so inclined.

You know what? I only like this place because it’s not the Starbucks on Dravus! Those girls in their were SO bitchy to me when all I would get was a bagel and a bottle of orange juice. Sorry you don’t have to make me anything! [I’m just bitter they’re not on Unilocal so I can’t give them a bad review]
Anyway, I decided to try Peet’s instead and was soo impressed by how friendly all the guys were [nice to look at as well]. I don’t even know what I ate last time I went in… it was some weird tomato muffin biscuit thing. If I am in the neighborhood again I will definitely stop by just to say hi.

Seeing as it’s Fall, all of the coffee shops duke it out for the best pumpkin spice latte. I’d have to say Peet’s wins out for me I think because it has a hint of lavendar or some other provencial herb– but it’s awesome.
I was a little weirded out that the barrista was asking me about my day and knew my name– then I remembered the cashier asked my name 2 seconds earlier. After I remembered that I was less creeped out and more warm and fuzzy

I love my iced americanos with room. They know how to make them perfectly, and when I am in Ballard this is my stop for morning coffee on the way to work.
Solid solid place.

Amazing, incredible service. The people working here are SO sweet and generous!
Nice atmosphere for working on the laptop, especially on a sunny day thanks to the huge windows. Only bummer is that the wireless times out every hour, but again, the staff are super accomodating and always put me back online free of charge, for as long as I stay.

I love Peet’s and may find myself coming to this slightly inconvenient location now that the Queen Anne store is closed. At first I thought this seemed like an awful location, destined for failure. But the new shopping strip on 15^th is being built up (Whole Foods, some Chinese place, a dry cleaner…) so perhaps there will be enough traffic to keep it afloat. I stopped in one day over the summer, expecting the place to be dead. I was surprised at how crowded it was! My interaction with the guy at the register was mildly awkward, but he greeted the people behind me by first name, so I guess they’ve got some regulars. My iced latte was as good as ever. I’ll try and be back soon.