Caffe Vita Coffee Roasting Company & Pizzeria Napoletana
Pioneer Square Opening Celebration
Thursday, April 1st 2010.

6am – 9pm
*Free drip coffee.
11am – 9pm
*Free small pizzas from Pizzeria Napoletana
6pm – 8pm
4Culture Hosts a free performance by the TARANTELLAS

*All coffee/pizza is free, we are gladly accepting donations to benefit our neighbors 4culture.

The Pioneer Square Caffe Vita & Pizzeria Napoletana is located at 125 Prefontaine Place South, Seattle, WA (One the corner of Washington and 4th Avenue) Click here for map.

Caffe Vita Pioneer Square
Formerly All City Coffee, this new Vita location in the heart of the Pioneer Square Arts district is already established as a central meeting place in the neighborhood.

New Hours
M-F. 6am -7pm
Sat. 7am-7pm
Sun. 9am-2pm
206-652-8331

“We saw the potential to add to this dynamic location and build deeper relationships with the arts community in Seattle.”
Mike Mcconnell, founder Caffe Vita.

Pizzeria Napoletana

Inspired by a recent trip to Naples, Via Tribunali / Caffe Vita founder Mike Mcconnell, brings traditional Neapolitan pizza to the streets of Seattle located in a 100 square foot space nestled in the corner of of the new pioneer square Caffe Vita location. Within Pizzeria Napoletana you will find a hand built volcanic brick oven constructed by 3rd generation Neapolitan masons firing pizza’s out every 90 seconds alongside Italian beer, wine and small antipasti plates. These beautiful wood fired pizza’s cooked at over 1000 degrees are made using all imported ingredients including Solea tomatoes from the San Marzano region of Naples.

Hours
M – F. 11am – 7pm

Caffe Vita and the Washington Restaurant Association Seattle Chapter present the third annual Seattle SoundBite. Twelve Seattle restaurants will sell a lineup of “street-style” bites, alongside the musical performances of the winning bands from our first online public vote which took place on the Seattle City of Music website earlier this year.

SoundBite was created along side Caffe Vita to highlight the unique relationship that restaurants and musicians share, and celebrate hard-working foodservice employees. The charities this event supports reflect a commitment to developing youth both in the music and the foodservice industries.

Also on the evening’s menu is a special headlining performance by Seattle country-rock darlings, The Maldives (whose members work at Fuel Coffee, Conor Byrne and Tango), with Shawn Stewart of 103.7 The Mountain as MC and DJ Darek Mazzone of KEXP keeping the party going between sets.

Winners of this years call for entries includes: Amsterdam who’s members work at The Melting Pot, Velcro Mindset who’s members work at Glendale Country Club and Sam Russell and the Harborrats employees of TASTE Restaurant at Seattle Art Museum.

SoundBite takes place Thursday, April 8, 2010, at the Showbox SoDo. This years restaurants include Via Tribunali, Bastille, The Pike Street Fish Fry, Quinns and many more. For more information and tickets click here.

Caffe Vita will once again be heading to South By Southwest the annual interactive, film, and music festivals and conferences that take place every spring in Austin, Texas. We will be sponsoring the SXSeattle Stage which takes place Saturday, March 20th at the Beauty Bar on 6th Street.

Stop by if your Austin and enjoy an ice cold cup of iced toddy brewed for 24 hours using our single origin Gayo River Farm Direct Coffee.

Performers this year at the SXSeattle Stage Include:
The Cave Singers
The Dutchess & the Duke
The Lonely Forest
The Moondoggies
Rocky Votolato
Grand Hallway
The Maldives
The Staxx Brothers
Dark Time Sunshine
Dyme Def
Grynch
Macklemore
Mash Hall (formerly known as They Live!)
THEESatisfaction

Jackson Place Business Association & Hiawatha Artists present their bi-annual SPRING OPEN HOUSE on March 27th 2010in the HIAWATHA LOFTS in N. Rainier Valley

Schedule:

• Hiawatha Community room/gallery doors open at 2pm:
• 3pm – 6pm Open Studio/Lofts – artist/residents display their in-home works
• 3pm – 6pm Silent Art Auction – in 1st Floor Community Room Live Music
• 6:30pm Rafe Pearlman (resident artist) and Friends: expect a rare treat from local singer Rafe Pearlman and members of his newly formed band…from Aramaic prayers, to Etheric space rock, to ethnic dub…expect an eclectic experience….. www.myspace.com/rafepearlman
• 7:20pm The Setting Suns- a combination of Country-Blues, Rock‘n Roll & Progressive sounds.
• 8:10pm The Hugs – a mixture of harmonic Garage-sound, poppy indie rock with hooks. http://thehugsblog.blogspot.com/

Cafe Weekend is a gorgeous little cafe on the bike trail between I-90 and the Rainier Valley. At just over a year old, our friends are starting off Spring of 2010 with live music, local arts, and Caffe Vita coffee. Café Weekend is committed to fostering Artspace’s mission and understands the importance of the Hiawatha Lofts to the Jackson Place Community & the surrounding neighborhoods.

Feel free to swing by and show your support to the local community and your neighborhood Cafe.

“Christa Thomas & Nhon Truong have opened Café Weekend in January of 2009 in the Hiawatha Lofts after being displaced from their Rainier Cold Storage/ Georgetown studio. Growing up with the community dynamic of our parents & grandparents who have lived alongside Rainier Ave/ Beacon Hill & greater Seattle neighborhoods since the 40′s. We felt that not only moving our studio to Hiawatha Lofts in the N. Rainier Valley to encourage our own professional growth, but fostering another generation of community was a natural step. ” – Owners of Cafe Weekend

Portland, OR – p:ear barista school invites you to get your morning (or afternoon) cup of coffee on us!

Free Coffee Day @ p:ear barista school. Thursday March 11th. 9am – 2pm.

Free coffee day at p:ear is a chance for the barista school students to hone their skills in a realistic café environment as well as a chance for the Portland community to support the recently launched p:ear barista school. Each student will work a shift as barista throughout the day, the drinks are free, but we will have a huge tip jar for the students.

New Session: p:ear barista school session number 3 starts the first in week in April. Interested individuals can apply in person at P:ear during regular business hours.

p:ear barista school’s goal is to provide on the job training to at risk youth
and provide the necessary skills to become the best barista’s in Portland. More info here…

The p:ear barista school is located @ p:ear – 338 NW 6th Ave., Portland, Oregon 97209.

Exploring The Path From Coffee Plant To Coffee Cup With Caffe Vita

SEATTLE – Maybe you have the occasional cup with dessert, or when you’re out with friends catching up on the latest news and gossip. Or maybe you brew yourself a thermos-full every morning before work. Whatever the case, there is a lot that goes in to creating that perfect-tasting cup of coffee, and we went to the folks at Caffe Vita on Capitol Hill to show us what the process entails.

From selecting just where to purchase the beans from, to the way those beans are roasted, there are many different elements that go in to creating just the right taste. Some say coffee has just as many (if not more) flavor notes than wine. So it’s not surprising that with “cupping,” coffee lovers can do a tasting just as wine lovers can.

Caffe Vita is just one of many locally-owned coffee shops in the Seattle area. They hand-roast their own farm direct coffee, and you can stop by one of their locations to taste it for yourself! (Capitol Hill, Queen Anne, Fremont, Seward Park, and Olympia.)

Video Link should be live soon…

Exploring The Path From Coffee Plant To Coffee Cup With Caffe Vita

SEATTLE – Maybe you have the occasional cup with dessert, or when you’re out with friends catching up on the latest news and gossip. Or maybe you brew yourself a thermos-full every morning before work. Whatever the case, there is a lot that goes in to creating that perfect-tasting cup of coffee, and we went to the folks at Caffe Vita on Capitol Hill to show us what the process entails.

From selecting just where to purchase the beans from, to the way those beans are roasted, there are many different elements that go in to creating just the right taste. Some say coffee has just as many (if not more) flavor notes than wine. So it’s not surprising that with “cupping,” coffee lovers can do a tasting just as wine lovers can.

Caffe Vita is just one of many locally-owned coffee shops in the Seattle area. They hand-roast their own farm direct coffee, and you can stop by one of their locations to taste it for yourself! (Capitol Hill, Queen Anne, Fremont, Seward Park, and Olympia.)

Video Link should be live soon…