About Olympia Coffee Roasting
Olympia Coffee Roasting Co. is a specialty coffee roaster and café operator based in Olympia, Washington, founded in 2005. The company runs eight café locations across Olympia, Tacoma, and Seattle, and is known for its direct-trade sourcing under a 'Fair For All' framework. It has won the United States Brewers Cup and United States Barista Competition.



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Olympia Coffee Roasting Co. has operated out of Olympia, Washington since 2005, building a reputation across the Pacific Northwest for competition-grade specialty coffee and a sourcing ethos that treats fair trade as a floor rather than a ceiling. The company runs eight café locations spanning Olympia, Tacoma, and Seattle, making it one of the more geographically distributed roasters in the region while keeping its identity tightly wound around direct-trade relationships and ethical sourcing under its "Fair For All" framework.
Founded with an explicit mission to improve quality of life across the full coffee supply chain, Olympia Coffee grew from a single Olympia shop into a wholesale operation serving cafés regionwide. That growth has been paced deliberately — the company has consistently invested in staff development and competition preparation alongside retail expansion, which accounts for its outsized presence in national barista and brewing competitions relative to its size.
On the roasting side, Olympia Coffee emphasizes single-origin lots with traceable farm provenance. Current offerings include an Ethiopia Gatta Anaerobic Natural from Shantawene Village in Sidama Bensa, sourced from elevations between 2,120 and 2,210 meters — the kind of high-altitude, process-forward lot that signals a buying program attentive to terroir. The roastery fulfills orders roasted-to-order and supports subscriptions, wholesale accounts, and direct online retail.
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Olympia Coffee's competition record is among the more decorated of any Washington-state roaster. According to Thurston Talk, the company has won the United States Brewers Cup and the United States Barista Competition — national-level titles that reflect sustained investment in technical excellence rather than one-off results. Locally, it has been voted Best Coffee five consecutive years in Olympia's Best of Olympia rankings, per the same source.
Visitors to any of the eight cafés — spread across Downtown Olympia, South and West Olympia, Proctor Tacoma, Downtown Seattle, Columbia City, and West Seattle, plus the affiliated Moonrise Bakery — can expect a retail-forward environment with brewing equipment, merchandise, tea, and chocolate alongside espresso and filter drinks. The online shop ships nationwide with free shipping on orders over $50, and a subscription program handles recurring orders for those outside the Pacific Northwest.
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- Profiled
- Bean products
- Subscriptions
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- In store or subscription
- Specialty transparency
- Limited
Awards & Recognition
- ★United States Brewers Cup· United States Brewers Cup
- ★United States Barista Competition· United States Barista Competition
- ★Best Coffee — Best of Olympia (5 consecutive years)· Best of Olympia
What Olympia Coffee Roasting Roasts
Olympia Coffee's original flagship blend, combining ethically sourced lots from Colombia and Ethiopia for a coffee suited to all brew methods. It features flavors of chocolate, caramel, and berries.
tea, cherry, lemon
grape, passion fruit, licorice, jasmine, honeysuckle
A medium roast sourced from small-scale, family farmers in Latin America, offering flavors of dark chocolate, roasted hazelnut, and vanilla. Smooth and chocolaty, it is designed to ease you into your day with comfortable, familiar flavors.
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