Any Starbuck's(coffee) Addicts?

[Trek420]

There are a lot of us Seattleites who try hard to go to the indie coffee places rather than the megaempire Starbuck's. And I think they DO overroast their coffee so it's fairly bitter.

I think there are a lot of us who like indie places whether it's for the better less bitter coffee, a sense of culinary adventure or a statement.

There's that term the "mall'ization of America". Some seem to have a need for the same places logos menu wherever we go "oh look! whew, a Starbucks in Uzbechistanigrad. I thought we'd never find a place to have coffee".

Why travel at all? Why go anywhere if we're just gonna have the same blasted burnt coffee? Try the local bev of choice in Uzbechistanigrad just to say you did.

I love finding the out of the way spot, the cafe that looks intriguing from the outside, local plates on cars in the lot "ooh look, the cops go there. Now we know it's good".

I'm pretty good at spotting these places and rarely have a bad meal. But I've heard this is a good site for that out of the way spot

www.roadfood.com

Knott's taken me to both Chocolatis in Seattle. I'm not saying one shouldn't go to Starbucks but how less special would it be "oh, remember when we went to Starbucks, just like this Starbucks which is just like the one in ...."