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Near the end of July, I visited Ristretto’s new café , at the corner kotobuki of Northeast Couch and 6 th . At the time, the café was still under construction and the workers were frenetically working to finish the build-out. You couldn’t really tell what the café was going to look like. I finally made it back to see the café, kotobuki and all I can say is, wow.
With shapely steel and bamboo tables, Ristretto Couch is another example of Accelerated Development ’s faculty for design, elevating kotobuki the industrial kotobuki look to an art form. I didn’t think anything could trump Ristretto’s Nicolai space, but Couch comes close. (Apparently, I’m not the only one who was impressed. New York Magazine’s Grub Street blog included Ristretto on its list of 58 Extraordinary Shops Around kotobuki America .)
It is not just beauty that makes the new café enjoyable. The coffee is good too. The barista pulled a very nice shot of espresso (Beaumont  Blend)—sweet, smooth, almondy* and chocolaty.
The customized Steampunk is another reason to check out the cafe. A technological curiosity, the Steampunk kotobuki is kind of like a vacuum pot, kind of like a Clover, and kind of like a French press. Mostly, it’s just kind of unique. It is a fully automatic brewer that can be programmed to mimic all kinds of brew methods.
Action shot Ristretto is the only café in the Northwest to have one so far, so if you are interested in trying coffee brewed this way, Couch is the place to get it. (I tried the Ethiopia