South Sound Coffee Trail: Your Route to Roasters
Meet the roasters, learn about the origin of the finely crafted beans and warm up with a cup of some of the best java around on the new South Sound Coffee Trail. This self-guided tour explores all things craft coffee in Washington’s capital region.
The Olympia region is home to local coffee roasters who pride themselves on their craft. Visitors like you can now fully immerse yourself in Olympia’s coffee scene now that it’s more accessible than ever before.
This route to roasters provides a curated map of regional cafes and roasteries, and details on nearby coffee cuppings and tastings. A couple highlights of the trail include:
- Find Tastings and Cuppings. Stop by the Dancing Goats tasting room to sample a variety of roasts or take a cupping class.
- Define Your Coffee Style. Whether it’s latte art, ambiance or aroma that’s most important, an infographic style quiz leads sippers to which local java may jive with their coffee style. Take the quiz here.
Meet the Roasters
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Cutters Point Coffee Co.
Cutter Point’s journey began in 1995 when they purchased Austin Chase Coffee, a small espresso bar in Gig Harbor. In 2001 they expanded into their own roasting facility and rebranded as Cutter Point Coffee. With three local locations in Lacey, as well as locations in Gig Harbor, Tacoma, and Lakewood, Cutters Point offers a premium cup of artisan-roasted coffee in a warm, community-focused atmosphere.
Enjoy Cutter's Point Coffee at one of their three shops or order online for home brewing.
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Dancing Goats
Dancing Goats opened their doors to Olympia in 1988 serving locally roasted Batdorf and Bronson coffee. A few years later, the two Olympia institutions merged, paving the way for decades of innovation in the quest to create great coffee.
Their focus is on creating a low-impact process that produces a high-impact coffee. With decades-long relationships with any of their coffee producers around the world, they’re able to promote a sustainable, environmentally-friendly process that results in the best coffee beans. Discover their coffee at their three Olympia locations (downtown, Olympia Farmers Market, and in the Bayview Thriftway), or stop by the Dancing Goats Tasting room for an intimate behind-the-scenes look at roasting. You can also purchase their coffee online.
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Ember Goods
Ember Goods is a family-owned coffee shop in downtown Olympia built to be the perfect pit-stop for your next adventure in and out of the city. Founded by four friends who couldn’t find the coffee shop of their dreams, they built a cabin just outside of Olympia where they roast their coffee in small batches for maximum attention to detail. Their passion is quality and knowing their coffee’s origins.
A visit to the coffee shop provides endless opportunities to uncover beautifully curated local goods – everything you need to prepare for your next adventure here in the PNW. Their coffee is available at the shop as well as online for delivery right to your doorstep.
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Olympia Coffee Roasting
Olympia Coffee is grounded in their quality-of-life mission, leading them to create direct trade relationships with coffee farmers worldwide in eight countries spanning three continents. Opening their doors in 2005 in an unmarked warehouse in Olympia as a wholesale coffee roaster, they would eventually move two blocks from their original location in 2007 to open a coffee bar hidden away on a side street. Their goal: to sell freshly-roasted coffee and brew every cup to order. The tiny shop had just four tables but featured windows for coffee lovers to view their roasting process.
Having strong direct trade partnerships allows Olympia Coffee Roasters unprecedented control over the flavors of their coffees. Those relationships, combined with a better understanding of the science behind roasting and preparing coffee is the key to their continued success. What they truly love is creating and sharing extraordinary coffee with their community in the PNW and with friends around the world. Pick up a bag at any of their three Olympia locations, or order it online.
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Olympic Crest Coffee Roasters
Olympic Crest Coffee Roasters has been roasting premium international gourmet coffees in Lacey since 1996. Their coffee shop is Lacey’s only full-service coffee company, providing custom on-site roasting, and free internet for visitors enjoying breakfast and lunch.
With their state-of-the-art Diedrich IR-12 roaster, Olympia Crest Coffee Roasters is able to supply many espresso shops in the South Sound region with wholesale coffee. Grab a cup at the drive-thru, enjoy it indoors at the café, or order it online for home delivery.
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Samayra Coffee Co
With backgrounds in hospitality and a love for community building, Ken and Jalee Rice opened Samayra Coffee Co. in 2020. Samayra roasts and delivers a great micro-batch roast and strives to serve the best coffee paired with the best in-house and locally baked pastries. Come in and enjoy a cup of their micro-roasted craft espresso drinks, nitro-infused coffee on tap, or their premium loose-leaf teas.
South Sound Coffee Roasters Trail Map
Cutters Point Coffee Co (Ruddell Rd)
5750 Ruddell Road Lacey, Washington 98503 (360) 438-9433
Cutters Point Coffee Co (Lacey Blvd)
5831 Lacey Blvd SE, A Lacey, Washington 98503 (360) 456-2974
Cutters Point Coffee Co (Marvin Rd)
1340 Marvin Rd NE Lacey, Washington 98503 (360) 455-4411
Dancing Goats Bayview
516 Fourth Ave W Olympia, Washington 98503 (360) 352-4901
Dancing Goats Olympia Downtown
550 Capitol Way S Olympia, Washington 98501 (360) 786-6717
Dancing Goats Farmers Market
111 Market Street NE Olympia, Washington 98501 (360) 528-8555
Dancing Goats Coffee Tasting Room
200 Market St. NE Olympia, Washington 98501 (360) 753-7531
Ember Goods
422 Washington St. SE Olympia, Washington 98501 (360) 338-0315
Olympia Coffee Roasting Co.
600 4th Ave. East Olympia, Washington 98501 (360) 753-0066
Olympic Crest Coffee Roasters
4211 Pacific Ave SE Lacey, Washington 98503 (360) 923-0973
Samayra Coffee Co.
1600 Cooper Point Rd SW Suite 630 Olympia, Washington 98502 (360) 338-0926
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