Urban Sketchers at Starbucks Reserve Roastery and Tasting Room

Sunday, 40+ 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.  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  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.  For more sketches of the day check out http://seattle.urbansketchers.org/.

In that neighborhood, down the street is  Melrose Market a wonderful
interior space filled with small market stalls,  a butcher, flower shop,
restaurant, wine tasting bar and other vendors.  Just another interesting place along the Pike Pine Corridor in Seattle. 

Seattle Urban Sketchers in front of Starbucks Roastery by Kate Buike

Inside the Roastery

Melrose Market

Melrose St.