Zoka's Snoka

September 8-9, 2007

This past weekend the great people at Zoka had the grand opening of their new store in Snoqualmie, nicknamed Snoka, the third Zoka store to date in Seattle. Jeff Babcock kindly invited me to come over and celebrate with them.

They were taking advantage of the occasion to break out the Esmeralda Special Auction coffee on the Clover, and had all kinds of activities, including coffee and tea cupping for the general public, really good free baked goods...even a bluegrass band.

I got to pull the name of the raffle winner of a half pound of Esmeralda Special out of a box, which was fun. Trish did a great job teaching people about coffee cupping, which the public really seemed to enjoy. I also took part in a tea cupping ceremony with Maki, their tea buyer...I had no idea tea could smell so good.

The weather was very nice, and I would have thought that all the great weather could potentially be not such a good thing for a coffee store opening, as in people might want to be outdoors and not drinking coffee, but there were lines literally out the door. Congratulations to Zoka on such a succesful event. May there be many more to come!