Gearhouse Coffee Shop — Restaurant in Seattle

The overall best coffee shop in Capitol Hill, even if you don't care about skiing or outdoorsy stuff. Though some others have slightly better coffee (Vivace, Analog), Basecamp takes the trophy in atmosphere, interior, and community. The staff are always friendly and helpful. The interior is roomy and spacious and cozy, with diverse seating options. Basecamp regularly hosts community events: presentations, music, trivia, boardgame nights, and private events. Vertex couldn't have chosen a better business to full the post-covid first-floor retail vacancy. I like the place so much that I've signed up for a membership; I pay a monthly sub so I can get free coffee and tea, and I come here often enough for that to pay for itself.

The only downside to Basecamp is that it suffers from its own success. Space is at a premium on Capitol Hill and there's no other cafe that has such a cozy, spacious interior. Consequently, it stays busy at all hours with folks working on their laptops, and sometimes finding a seat is tough. Their recent Wi-Fi changes have made it slightly more difficult non-members to spend long stretches of time in here, but a receipt still gives you 4 hours of...

This place has a cool atmosphere and possibly is a decent coffee shop. But man is this the worst food i've had in a LONG time. They should be ashamed if this is their standard.

The croissant was just about as good as the bulk croissants are at Costco. Possibly it was those. It had a nearly frozen and dough-ey center that was unsettling to bite into.

The breakfast burrito was clearly the same thing you get at a roadside convenience store and was taken out of plastic with a nutrition label attached. Looked like something out of the frozen isle at best. They just shoved in a panini press before serving. The exterior of it tasted so bad. Almost plastic-ey like the way a new water slide or inflatable mattress smells. Plasticky fake and inedible.

If your passion is not serving food then don't serve food. This brings down the whole brand to me to an intolerable level. Spending nearly 20$ for this absolute crap has my whole day going the wrong way.

Edit: I reported this to staff which I normally wouldn’t do. They handled this nicely and got me a refund. They also said they would talk with their vendor. The burritos seemed fairly popular so perhaps this was...

Currently one of my favorite coffee spots to get actual work done, specifically to do work.

There are some other places in the neighborhood but their coffee either sucks, or their seating sucks, wifi sucks, or the parking in general just sucks, or a sad combination of all of them.

Basecamp has really good coffee/drinks and their staff is very friendly, plenty of spacious seating with multiple outlets to choose from at every table. Have not tried their food so I can't say much on that part.

It does get quite busy on the weekends, middle of the day, but if you get there early enough you have so many options on seating.

The parking still sucks but it is located in Capitol Hill and this is more of a neighborhood thing than a Basecamp thing, parking in this part of town just sucks all the time. It is very well located though because you can take the light rail and it's right outside the Light Rail Station.

Can't say enough good things about this place and would highly recommend if you're actually looking to try and...