Wayward Coffeehouse

great place for studying

This is my absolute favorite local coffee shop. It’s the perfect place to meet for a drink, pastry, or light sandwich. The sci-​fi theme is so unique and makes this place a Seattle staple. I believe Wayward Coffeehouse is vegetarian. However Wayward Coffeehouse is DIFFERENT from the Wayward Vegan Café that just moved in down the street. Plenty of cheese here!

This is a long-​time community hangout for folks who love board games, some cult TV shows, and hosts many MeetUps. (See www. meetup .com to learn what a MeetUp is) It’s a great place for a group or to work on your laptop. Cozy overstuffed chairs with character. Feels more like a living room in that really cool group house you shared with fun housemates in college.
I like the daylight towards the front of the café, but no daylight gets deeper into the café. WiFi for your laptops and very small tables for individual patrons. Generally no one is having a meeting at the big tables so if you aren’t interrupting a board game or MeetUp you can spread out on nice big tables to work. Rotating artwork. The café started in Greenwood 10 years ago. I forget how many years ago it moved to Ravenna neighborhood, but it has a loyal community following.

Great employees, great coffee, great vibe. I haven’t found a place with better coffee in Seattle yet!

An amazing staff that made me a green tea frappé which was not even on the menu. Very welcoming environment and exciting decorations from all of my favorite fandoms. Went there for a board game meetup, but will return to write and eat again. Good lighting, comfortable seating, nice background music and chatter for a fantastic ambience while writing.

I was to meet a friend at Wayward off 65^th. Great, easy peasy. I go into the coffee shop and sit for 3 – 5 minutes, and scroll through instagram on my phone. I get a text from my friend saying they grabbed a table and they are back on the right side. I look around– no site of them, so I call. Long story short– there is a café further up the block also called Wayward and that’s where they are.
Ok– again easy peasy. I get up to walk to the right place. As I’m walking out, the VERY RUDE, OVERLY AGGRESSIVE lady behind the counter yells «BYE! THANKS FOR COMING IN! THANKS FOR USING OUR INTERNET AND NOT ORDERING ANYTHING.»
Holy what? How rude. I will NEVER go back there. I stood outside the door thinking that I was going to go back in and say something to her, but really is it worth it– no it’s not. As I am standing outside the door I continue to hear her ranting about how she HATES people that come in and use the internet and don’t order and THINK THEY CAN SNEAK OUT. WTF.
To be clear, no I was on my phone– not using their internet. Not taking up any of their bandwidth. Sorry my butt in one of the many open seats in the near empty café for 120 seconds was such a burden to these people. Great customer service. Totally get why the Starbucks 30 seconds away was chalked full of people.

They had me at Coconut Mocha.
Aside from the amazing variety of coffee flavorings, this place is fairly standard. I have experienced none of the rude attitude that a lot of these reviews talk about. Yea, the pastry selection is «meh», but the coffee is quite lovely.
They also have some pretty sweet board game nights, and everyone at these is very warm and accepting. It’s alright if you’re a newcomer, or even new to the city. Just be friendly and willing to try something new, and you’re totally in.
I’d come back to Wayward for the coconut and chocolate coffee, but I’d stay for the fun I’ve had there.

The boyfriend and I were in town lookin to dine on some fine vegan foods, when we stumbled into Wayward Coffeehouse. We meant to find Wayward Vegan Café, and didn’t realize they were different places until we placed an order. We hastily went to cancel our food order. The woman working at the time got upset (even though she hadn’t begun making the sandwich yet) and started to argue that they carry vegan food too. She went on to complain that the Wayward Vegan Café stole their name. She refused to cancel our order and refund our money. Not only was this an unpleasant experience and the service terrible, but the latte was terrible as well.

It’s a cool, quiet place to study. Their coffee is ok, nothing special. But the baristas are not so friendly and they ask you «would u like to leave a tip!!!» So, they basically force u to tip! They are open late, which is a plus. So if u r looking for a place to study later at night then go for it, but there are much better places around the area.

Wayward Coffeehouse facilitates a great community of geeky, wonderful people who love coffee, games, and Firefly. This place is so much more than a coffee shop. They offer vegan sandwiches and pastries and have every alternative milk you can think of. They host board game nights, jazz bands, knitting clubs, and meetings of non profit organizations.
Personally, I recommend hanging out and doing work with an iced Polgara mocha (lavendar!) and an Inara Ploughman sandwich.

I really like the staff, and the coffee is consistently good (it’s not specialty coffee, but it’s not trying to be, either). I’m not too fond of the lady I think is the owner. She hasn’t been very friendly the few times she’s helped me at the counter, and I once overheard her castigating one of her employees in a way that I thought was condescending and overly public (I was sitting at the far end of the café and I could hear every word). Granted, I didn’t have a full understanding of the situation, but I didn’t like that she did it in front of the customers. I wouldn’t want to work under her, and I would prefer to give my patronage to a business where the staff seems to be treated well.

I am a longtime regular of Wayward Coffeehouse and I am a continuing fan for the relaxed atmosphere, comfy work places, tasty treats, and the good WiFi.
I am not even a coffee drinker, but I still have good drink options.
They have lots of fun events and it is worth checking out the calendar to see if anything interests you. Or just come in and find a nice place to work or read.

Had coffee here once. It was pleasant. The reason for the one star review is the rude attitude on my second visit recently around 1pm on a weekday. I came in, dressed professionally, and asked if I could use the customer WiFi to check something important on my tablet before catching the bus. The barista said it’s for customers only. I replied that I had been a customer in the past, «would you mind if I sit in here for a minute?» She coldly said no and insisted if I was a customer before I must have used the WiFi so I should still have the password.
It’s not a matter of asking you for the password, because it’s posted in the shop! I could have walked over and entered it. It was a matter of me being polite and asking your /​permission/​because I was not going to be a customer on that particular day. But you chose to be rude. Plus, there was only one other customer at the time. It was not an inconvenience for the business for me to sit for 2 minutes.
I pass through that way from time to time, and I could have definitely foreseen getting coffee here regularly. But based on this interaction, I will not be a customer again. There are too many coffee shop options for me as a customer to ever tolerate employee bs like this. I won’t be back.

Wayward coffeehouse is what I would call the anti-​srarbucks. If you like your coffee shops weird then this is the place for you (wait I this an episode of Portlandia). To start with they food offering is vegan, which they don’t advertise anywhere you just have to realize this place I owned by the same people as the Wayward Vegan Café. The décor is like a combination of your grandmother’s living room and the common area of your college dorm room. It seems like each piece of furniture was purchased or acquired at a different time. Which I actually love becsuse I feel like it gives the place a certain character.
The employees are always super frendly, willing to help you out with food and drink choices, and if you do take the time to have a conversation with them, are characters in their own right. But what really sets Wayward apart is the event nights that they have. You can check the calendar in the coffee shop (yes they print one and post it on the wall) for what they have scheduled in a given month. I personally have witnessed a steam punk night, comic book night, a board game night and an adult shadow puppet show (yep that actually happened).
I really like the fact that they are open fairly late for the area (till 11pm) so it becomes a great place to study. It’s easy to find parking in the area late at night but if you come during the day it can be a little bit of a challenge. With that said I certainly think this place is worth a drop on if you are in the area and tired of the same old same old Seattle coffee shop.

Vegan friendly spot! A plethora of Geekery!
Accommodates large families. .6 of us.
Excellent mochas, and chai. Vegan donut options, sandwiches, and soups as well. Gluten Free options as well. Clean, friendly, relaxing atmosphere.
The owner is high energy, interactive, and friendly. This is going to be a regular spot for us, as we prefer spending our hard earned gluten free vegan bread at vegan/​vegetarian businesses.

This is usually the café of (the husband’s — it’s like Cheers where everyone knows your name) choice after dining at India Bistro next door. Glad to see it has found its niche after relocating years ago from its original location in Greenwood.
Service is friendly, décor has warm, earthy colors with a wide selection of art work on its walls, Star Wars/​Star Trek/​Babylon 5/​Battlestar Gallactica spaceships dangle from the ceiling, and other ephemera decorate the various shelves.
This is also a favorite location for the WiFi laptop crowd and also various groups that meet at reserved tables — check the strategically placed white boards.
Wayward is much more homey with its variety of seating arrangements versus other nearby indie cafes, Bus Stop (cramped) or Broadcast Coffee (sleek). Definitely has longer hours than the Starbucks across the street too.
Has a decent selection of café fare (baked goods, soups, salads), but I’ve pretty much order the standard mocha. It can vary by barista, but this one was tasty once the thermal temp cooled down a few notches. Beautiful coffee art too!
I’m just not a fan of their overhead fluorescent lighting, just me I guess, since this evening’s visit had over a dozen people on their laptops or reading. Street parking can be a pain, but there’s underground parking and also decent 2 hour street slots a block or two away, and conveniently located at Metro transfer stops and a Park and Ride.

Shiny. The best coffeehouse in the verse. Go for full burn to get yourself here quick as you can. They don’t have strawberries, but who does these days?

I’ve been coming here on and off for the last few year for coffee. This morning I paid with my credit card at the counter and the server said «would you like to add a tip on this»?
I said «erm… um, sure.»
Then she handed me the tablet and I added a $ 1 tip.
I’ve got nothing against tipping, but this put me in a really awkward situation. How do you say no when they ask you like that?

So many good coffee shops, so little time. But Wayward is worth a visit (or two, or three, or four hundred). It’s quite spacious and doesn’t try to overdo anything. There is plenty of geeky décor and a small book shelf that also has a couple of board games. They seats are comfortable and the tables are large. They often have live music and game nights here so you may see any number of people on a given night.
The menu offers only vegetarian and vegan food but don’t let that deter you. These options are quite delicious. My everything bagel with avocado and pepperjack cheese was phenomenal and I’m excited to visit again and try the hummus one. They do have a few soups for the non-​bread eating crowd but otherwise you’re pretty much limited to bagels and sandwiches and pastries.
The coffee and tea were good and very tasty. The barista was extremely friendly and the right amount of chatty without being annoying about it. My one gripe is that the only trash can they offer is a couple of bins in the front of the shop. This is a minor complaint but it just feels weird to put my dishes and trash in the same place.
I love Wayward Coffeehouse and was happy to dicover it. I’ll be back often!

Seattle has a plethora of coffeehouses but only one Browncoat coffeehouse! We used to frequent them when they were on Greenwood but after the fire, they’ve settled nicely on the ground floor of a strip mall with its own parking garage underneath.
Everything on the menu is either vegetarian or vegan. Sad face that I can’t enjoy any of their lovely cheese toasties because of my cow’s milk allergy. I wish they’d carry Daiya or sheep/​goat cheeses to cater to those of us who can’t rock the cow :(
I’ve always had excellent coffee there and my husband is fond of their green tea lattes and Italian sodas. The seats are comfortable and the tables expansive. Check their schedules often, there are usually events like live music, game nights, and book signings. Take some time and look at the nerd art, the walls are festooned with the stuff!