After hanging out at SEAFAB I jumped on my steed and road via the Burke Gilman over to Zoka Coffee. This is a coffee shop I’ve been to a zillion times, albeit before the pandemic broke things. I headed over to the coffee shop and the first thing I noticed was the times on the door are very different than they were when I’d previously hung out at Zoka. The hours now are 8 to 5pm, where as they place didn’t close up until about 9pm previous to the pandemic. Hopefully those hours can come back one day!

Negatives

There aren’t many negatives to this location. There is of course, a street that isn’t busy, but always a bunch of parked cars and kind of – by world standard – a shit street out front. But out back of the place the Burke Gilman trail passes by, which is most excellent for connectivity. The front also has a good width sidewalk too however and there are some staple racks out front for at least ~4 bikes if not more. They’re the funny overly long old school Seattle staple racks, so always a little odd to rack up to compared to a standard length one. Overall a decent store front and good access, but more on that under the positives.

For now, the enumerated few negatives.

1. I don’t really like the raod, but it’s America and it’s not that bad. By USA standards it’s really low traffic and nice so hard to make this a negative, but I aim for a balanced review of all the places I’m going.
2. that’s it really… I can’t really conjure up any negatives.

Positives

1. The top thing I love about this Zoka location is that it is pretty open and has multiple rooms or areas in which you can sit.
2. The next best thing is they’ve got pretty decent coffee. They’ve also got a number of tea and related options, simple bites to eat, and other items to mix and match as you’d like.
3. There are numerous wall sockets.
4. The wifi is more reliable than not, making it a good choice to catch an internet call, just get some work done, or anything that might require a little connectivity.
5. This coffee shop rates up there with the few I’d rate as having good hygge vibe.
6. The rest rooms are some of the better rest rooms.

Ratings & Features

• Electrical Sockets: Readily available with numerous around the entire cafe. Many literally on the top of the counter that rims the windows.
• Wifi & Internet: I didn’t get the internet working, so I ended up tethering. This did make me depart a little earlier than I would have otherwise. I’ll be back again to check this out.
• Seats: The where 3 comfy chairs and everything else was modern standard metal and wood. Impressive considering most cafes and coffee shops these days are just hard uncomfortable chairs everywhere!
• Prices: The prices seemed pretty average, not expensive but nothing cheap.
• Lighting: Good lighting and good places to shield your laptop from errant sun when needed.