Vegan
American
Delivery
Take-out
Breakfast
Coffee house offering a vegan food menu. Hosts open mics, concerts, and board game nights. Est. 2017. Reported fully vegan April 2022. Open Mon-Fri 7:00am-5:00pm, Sat-Sun 8:00am-2:00pm.
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7148 Martin Luther King Jr Way S, Seattle, Washington, USA, 98118
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- Outdoor seating
- Wheelchair accessible
- Accepts credit cards
- Free Wi-Fi
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Last update on 10 Dec 2024 by geometric-noise
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Added by raincityflexitarian on 20 Sep 2017
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50 Reviews
First Review by fullbellyhappyheart
Mochicita
Points +126
Cute outdoor space, tasty food - Edit
I had a pesto breakfast sandwich and a seasonal pumpkin chai. Both were fantastic! The breakfast sandwich had some hot peppers, so a bit of a kick, but I'm sure you can request no peppers.
Read moreThe outdoor space is huge! And half of it is covered. It's ok to have your dog with you on the patio.
Parking is limited. I parked on the smaller street behind the cafe and entered the cafe from that side (the patio side).
Pros: Yummy food and chai, Fabulous patio
Cons: Scant parking
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AmberPollard
Points +565
Big Patio, Small Cafe - Edit
The inside of this cafe is pretty small and very loud making ordering and getting out of the way of workers working very difficult. I ordered a vanilla oat latte (small with 4 shots) and the Bakon Brekkie Sando all the while shuffling in and out of the way of several people and repeating myself with an elevated voice because of the several convos happening at once in the compact space. When I received my latte it didn’t have vanilla because they didn’t hear me but they added a little vanilla for me.
Read moreMy band I opted to eat our food on the spacious patio which def seems to be bigger than the cafe interior. The sando was very good. I particularly loved the flavor of the tofu bakon.
Pros: Flavorful food , Spacious outdoor seating area , 100% vegan
Cons: Kinda pricey , Small interior , Very loud
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CocktailShaker
Points +457
Cafe Red is rad! - Edit
I used to think their pesto breakfast sandwich was thee best breakfast sandwich in Seattle, but it lost some oomph after they started distributing them to other cafes. It’s still good, but my partner + I share food, so I’ve tasted almost everything on their current menu + the bacon breakfast burrito is my current fave. I’m picky about bacon + they nailed it. The housemade sausage is hella great too. Really, you can’t go wrong.
Read morePros: radical politics, ethical sourcing, easy takeout
Cons: not cheap (what is?)
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VandiWraith
Points +24
Great! - Edit
Love their food and veganism!
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jenna33
Points +636
Great coffee and food - Edit
I got the pesto breakfast sandwich with a hash brown and a lavender drip coffee, perfect!!
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seal
Points +860
love! - Edit
Everything we have tried here has been fantastic - breakfast sandwiches, avocado toast, other sandwiches, coffee. Great flavors. It's a cute little spot, too.
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YajairaAlvarado
Points +18
Amazing food! - Edit
First time in Seattle and definitely coming back. Amazing service, friendly people and amazing food! I recommend their avocado toast and egg and cheese sandwich.
Read moreUpdated from previous review on 2024-07-24
Pros: Clean bathrooms! , Comfortable , Friendly
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totobean
Points +27
Delicious food and coffee - Edit
Loved the gluten free pesto breakfast sandwich!! Highly recommend.
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VictoriaSmith04
Points +342
Really greasy. - Edit
I was really disappointed coming here, it felt like veganized mcdonalds food. My husband and I shared the breakfast burrito and breakfast sandwich. I was shocked at how small the portions were when they arrived, because based on the price I thought they'd be bigger. Disappointed that everything was in to-go papers even though we ate in. The ambiance was really fun, I just thought it was way too greasy and overpriced.
Read morePros: nice vibe/location, friendly staff
Cons: overpriced, greasy
VandiWraith
Great review for one of our only all vegan places in Seattle! Thanks!
Read moreVictoriaSmith04
I thought reviews were supposed to be honest? I've been to tons of amazing vegan places in Seattle - this just wasn't one of them.
Read moreVandiWraith
Tell me the places! 5 stars for vegans THATS THE RULE!
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lynaea63
Points +28
Great - Edit
Great service. Had pistachio latte, bacon sandwich, and avocado hash brown. Cute outdoor seating
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Vegan_WNBFpro
Points +357
Friendly vibe, comfort food, Café - Edit
Nice selection of 100% vegan food! Homemade syrups for their drinks, too!
Read morePros: Selection, Outdoor covered seating, Right by Othello Station Link, light rail
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asudarkina
Points +67
obsessed with the pesto sandwich - Edit
great breakfast sandwiches and coffee! cute spot, indoor seating is sparse but they have a good outdoor area (with heaters I believe)
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Jules3
Points +60
Love it - Edit
I'm not a breakfast person at all. I avoid breakfast systematically. However, Café Red has the best breakfast food I've ever had in a vegan café (ate it at noon though). I highly recommend this place! #Veganuary
Read morePros: Amazing food, Great patio, Has books
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MarkoHlibchuk
Points +33
Great spot for breakfast - Edit
Loved my chorizo breakfast burrito and avocado hash browns. Top notch latte as well.
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YogiColleen
Points +256
Cute vegan spot - Edit
I got the peppermint London fog and a breakfast burrito.
Read moreI ordered it to eat there and planned on sitting outside. Since I hadn’t been in before, I asked the server if I was supposed to wait for my order or if they brought it out to me. She told me they would bring it out.
Shortly after that she brought my drink out. No burrito though. After 20 minutes I went inside to check on it (where I found my order sitting on the counter). I wasn’t happy.
Because the servers were all super lovely to interact with & welcoming, I’ll chalk it up to a miscommunication between team members.
Should I ever go back, I know now to stand there & wait.
The peppermint London fog was delicious (I wish I had ordered a larger size) and the burrito was good.
Pros: All vegan, Lots of options , Friendly servers
Cons: “To go” packaging on all orders
VandiWraith
3 stars on a vegan place because you’re too polite to ask where your delicious burrito went. Great job!!
Read moreYogiColleen
Thank you! How sweet of you to take time out of your day to support others who don't share your views! Have a beautiful rest of your week!
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KindredChoices
Points +1129
Perfect breakfast spot! - Edit
Awesome assortment of highly customizable breakfast things!
Read morePros: Custom breakfast sandwiches, Fully vegan cafe, Human friendly
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Rmpar
Points +50
Best Vegan Breakfast Sandwich! - Edit
The vegan bacon breakfast sandwich is the best breakfast sandwich I’ve had! I come here often to get breakfast before work. Everyone who works here is great.
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loreleve
Points +304
Vegan and Gluten-free - Edit
I get super excited anytime I find a place that I can indulge in both vegan and gluten-free items. This place did not disappoint. I had avocado toast, a cookie, and coffee. A well rounded breakfast😉
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lmop
Points +156
Incredible food and drinks!! - Edit
I'd heard Cafe Red was good but I wasn't expecting it to be SOOOO GOOOOD!! The avocado toast is spectacular and seriously the best I've ever had. The spices are spot on and the bread is divine. The sausage breakfast sandwich is hearty and delicious too. And the lavender menace! What a drink! What a lavender delight! I would buy it by the gallon if I could. (Hint, hint.)
Read moreI see a lot of other reviews saying that the food here is overpriced, but the avocado toast is $10, the breakfast sandwiches are $10... To me, these are stellar prices for vegan breakfast foods of such high quality, to the point that I was surprised by how low they are when I first came here. If you want a real cheap breakfast, go home and make yourself some oatmeal. If you want a flavorful and filling breakfast, go to Cafe Red!
Pros: Great food, Speedy service , Reasonable prices
Cons: Parking can be difficult to find
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becglt
Points +328
Adorable place - Edit
I loved the avocado toast, the hashbrown patty and the pesto breakfast sandwich. The bacon sandwich was also good, but something was missing. The hot cocoa tasted a bit like water, but was still very good. The only negative point is the price, it cost more then 50$ without the tip.
Read moreUpdated from previous review on 2023-09-01
Pros: Everything was good, The place is very cute, Gender neutral bathroom
Cons: Expensive
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JasonHawk
Points +52
Amazing sandwiches - Edit
Had a road trip through Seattle and these sandwiches were amazing!
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theNumberOfTheBeast
Points +4929
Red-iculous Prices - Edit
Hate to trash this place having remembered them when they first opened when the vibe was a small, modest, reasonably priced, personable vegan owned and operated chill space.
Read moreNow, it's like two tables next to an open toilet door, (cuz the staff doesn't close the door after themselves when they go) and a bunch of money for a little food.
All done, before tip, $25 for a muffin sandwich, coffee and a cookie. Coffee was weak, sandwich was great and the cookie was great ok, that's something I did enjoy it, but it was like getting a speeding ticket, it's just not fun when it costs so much.
After ordering, I asked the barista if she was vegan and she said, "personally?" Is there someone else she thought she should be answering for? Lol. Yes. She said no, and I asked, "Why not? Just hate animals?" She laughed and said no. Like that was a silly suggestion.
Alright listen up. If you pay a hitman to kill a baby, that's not just hatred, but extreme prejudice of the most horrific order. It's beyond hate. It's damning disdain for a living being. Loathing is to order the murder of a baby to have him or her chopped up, forced to reproduce or whatever else to make his or her flesh, milk or hatchlings into mutilated corpses to be your poop in the toilet. If you are not vegan. You don't just hate, you loathe the very right for animals to live.
So, I answered, "Why not go vegan then? Just wake up tomorrow and be vegan!" She answered that she wouldn't know what to eat. "Like snacks and stuff, I wouldn't know how to do that."
You work in a vegan snackbar and you don't know what veganism is? Weird. You don't know what vegans eat, though? Embarrassing. I guess it'll have to stay a mystery. What do vegans even eat?????? 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
Updated from previous review on 2023-06-08
Pros: tasty food, cook seems great
Cons: too pricey, for the love of animals, teach your staff what veganism is
caferedseattle
Thanks for your feedback. Gotta be honest, you must be living under a rock if you don’t understand how expensive it is to operate a small service business in Seattle. Our prices are incredibly fair considering the quality of ingredients and the effort that goes into everything, especially considering our entire staff is paid an actual living wage, and we stand by our prices. We think our coffee rocks, but we would have remade it or made you something else without a second thought. All you had to do was ask.
Read moreYou also have to be living under a rock if you think we have the privilege of only hiring vegans. We love hiring vegans but we don’t get nearly enough vegans applying to fill the shifts we need help with. That is a absurd expectation to have of any small business in this environment. Cafe Red has always been and always will be a vegan-owned business. If you want more vegans to work here, we are accepting applications if you have weekends free😉
I’m also unsure how many vegan converts you think you’ll make by berating service workers in the middle of their shifts, but I promise it’s less than we’ve made by simply demonstrating that quick, great and unpretentious vegan food can easily become part of your life. You can be “right” and still have no tactfulness whatsoever.
Also yes, we are a small space with limited indoor seating. However there are over 30 seats in the covered portion of our outdoor patio and another dozen seats in the uncovered portion. Strange you left that out when you complained about the seating.
kaleyeah87
No offense but people like you are the reason that vegans get a bad rep…
Read moretheNumberOfTheBeast
No "offense" but let me do my best to insult you and blame you personally for billions of dollars in anti-vegan lobbying, advertising, propaganda and brainwashing. What a freaking moron.
Read moretheNumberOfTheBeast
Hey cafered, asking a server in a vegan cafe why they're not vegan is not berating them, pull your pants out of yer crack. Sorry you felt you had to write a novella trying to justify your ding-dong employees and stupidly inflated prices while trying to denigrate my activism, which I will do wherever, whenever and however I feel like, it you ahat. I work for the animals, not for you, dumbnuts. And no I don't wanna sit outside in a column of vehicular pollution on your stupid expanded capacity patio while I consume my overpriced (yeah sorry, eff yer excuses, it's still overpriced) food which pays your anti-vegan employees their slave labor salaries. And yeah, I looked for help wanted signs because I know lots of vegans looking for work, but I sure as fugg didn't see any. So, good job. Add-- owner is a dikhead who spends too much time attacking people on reviews sites who write reviews and they don't like his bougie business. What a creep. Kiss my arse.
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divyaj
Points +651
Excellent sandwiches - Edit
The pesto was great, their house made plant-based egg is amazing. The sausage was slightly greasy. Perfectly located right opposite to the train station, beautiful murals on the buildings around and a large park nearby.
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Awillette98
Points +36
Decent, not great - Edit
Food is a bit hit or miss - sausage was good, bacon not so much. Cookie seemed pretty old. Nice vibe, but food not quite worth the money.
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Gabbie_isvibing
Points +93
Very nice! - Edit
i got the pesto breakfast sandwich, deluxe hash brown, and the gluten free sausage breakfast sandwich and everything had very good flavor, the portion size was good as well👌
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EmdotAlice
Points +4748
Great little cafe - Edit
We tried the pesto breakfast sandwich and both of the breakfast wraps (veggie and chorizo), hot matcha latte and iced peppermint mocha oatnilla. I’m not a bread connoisseur but that breakfast Sammy was pretty [censored] tasty—love the pesto and the greens give it some good texture. We were really happy with everything we ordered. We’re looking forward to coming back to try more of their menu. 😊
Read morePros: Tasty vegan breakfast fare, Tasty vegan drinks , Near a light rail stop
Cons: Not a huge meal, order more if you’re hungry
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HannahBonana
Points +36
Good but pricey - Edit
Good food but small portions, so can be pricey
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