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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-Tue 7:00am-3:00pm, Thu-Fri 7:00am-3:00pm, 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 03 Dec 2025 by geometric-noise
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Added by raincityflexitarian on 20 Sep 2017
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64 Reviews
First Review by fullbellyhappyheart
MarkoHlibchuk
Points +37
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 +302
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 +352
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 +179
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 $10... To me, these are stellar prices for vegan breakfast foods of such high quality, to the point that I was surprised by how low they are when I first came here. If you want a real cheap breakfast, go home and make yourself some oatmeal. If you want a flavorful and filling breakfast, go to Cafe Red!
Pros: Great food, Speedy service , Reasonable prices
Cons: Parking can be difficult to find
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becglt
Points +354
Adorable place - Edit
I loved the avocado toast, the hashbrown patty and the pesto breakfast sandwich. The bacon sandwich was also good, but something was missing. The hot cocoa tasted a bit like water, but was still very good. The only negative point is the price, it cost more then 50$ 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 +4925
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 +696
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 +66
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 +6384
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 +40
Good but pricey - Edit
Good food but small portions, so can be pricey
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rionthelion
Points +478
Not Bad Cafe Red Not Bad At All - Edit
Love that they went vegan. In the old days before the transformation, they were not vegan and the vegan options seemed to pain the staff and did not have me coming back. Now, the options are plentiful and quality is lovely. My wife still makes the best breakfast sandwich in western Washington but Red’s is very close to upsetting our household.
Read morePros: Breakfast sandwich, Breakfast sandwich , Coffee
EmdotAlice
What does your wife put on her breakfast sandwich? 🙂
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piglet_enthusiast
Points +1569
Amazing Spot! - Edit
Great place for breakfast and wonderful coffee!
Read morePros: Great coffee , Totally vegan menu, Friendly staff + community minded
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DavidJ
Points +55
Friendly team - Edit
Great coffee and menu options in unexpected location.
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beeandbee
Points +1103
Would be a regular if we lived closer - Edit
This place was the perfect stop to start our day in Seattle. The portions matched the prices so that was nice. The macaroni impressed us both and was actually one of the best we’ve ever had! Wish we had gotten more to eat before leaving. Also loved that we got to have this style of hashbrown for the first time since going vegan!
Read morePros: Nice outdoor seating, Best mac!
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StacyMN
Points +216
More please! - Edit
All the food we tried was so goooood!! We even took some cookies to go for later in the hotel! We tried the breakfast burrito, bacon sandwich, mac and cheese, matcha latte, and kids’ hot cocoa. Employees were all very helpful and kind. Will definitely be back for more!
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zyx
Points +10
Pricy but worth it for a one time experience - Edit
Worth a try though a bit expensive, you can ask them to prepare it in your reusables😄
Read moreUpdated from previous review on 2022-08-20
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thatgaycoincollector
Points +128
Great food! A bit expensive but that’s to be expected with vegan restaurants. - Edit
Had the bacon breakfast sandwich, was really good, the sausage one looked amazing, will go back to get that one. Hash browns and cookies were delicious as well.
Read morePros: All vegan
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CillaCillaCilla
Points +25
AMAZING - Edit
The beacon egg and cheese sandwich was chefs kiss 😘👌
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greysonstrzelczyk
Points +237
BEST BREAKFAST SANDWICH - Edit
Literally the best breakfast sandwich I’ve had in my entire life. Don’t believe the Google reviews if you look. Amazing coffee, delicious food, wonderful atmosphere. The staff are so nice and welcoming.
Read morePros: Many options, Delicious
Cons: A little pricey
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MistyBeerman
Points +22
Best Little Place - Edit
I got a breakfast sandwich today. It tasted amazing! Such a cute little shop. The staff was very kind. My order came out quickly.
Read morePros: All vegan menu, Friendly staff, Good food
Cons: Not much parking
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AlexisCanup
Points +64
Best breakfast place - Edit
I was so happy they re-opened, and the food is just as amazing as before the pandemic. Their new renovation is so cool and the service is always friendly!
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AMBSongbird
Points +88
Super Yum! - Edit
To Live For! The cauliflower wings with ranch dip sauce were perfection! Avocado toast so delicious and the breakfast sausage sandwich over the moon!
Read moreReally friendly staff. We ate there for lunch and would have loved to have gone back for dinner.
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CCap59
Points +268
Diamond in the Ruff - Edit
This place is completely vegan and has amazing food! We tried the cauliflower wings, avocado toasts and sausage sandwich! The wings were a little crunchy and seasoned just right! The avocado toast also had a nice light seasoning and was delicious! The sausage sandwich had the sausage, cheese and hollandaise and was amazing! Love this place!
Read morePros: All vegan
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