Martin Henry Espresso

The 5am weekday open is the practical reason to know about this one. A 5am open puts it in the earliest group of stands in the city, and on South 38th Street it sits in a stretch where the alternatives open an hour or two later.

The coffee is Martin Henry Coffee Roasters, founded in 1998 by Dan and Debi Bennett in the Puyallup Valley. They roast to order rather than warehousing roasted beans, all Arabica, in small batches, and the roastery's own site carries a page for this shop with its phone number. What is not documented is the legal relationship: the roaster does not claim to own or run any retail cafe, so read this as a shop pouring Martin Henry rather than as the roaster's own room.

Beyond that the record is thin and this entry will not fill it in. No source establishes whether it is a drive through, a walk up window or a seated cafe, and none names a house drink or a menu item. It carries 300 reviews at 4.6, which tells you a lot of people use it and almost nothing about what it looks like.

One warning worth having before you search for it. The domain martinhenryespresso.com no longer belongs to the business and now serves an unrelated overseas gambling site, so do not follow it. The reliable page is the roaster's own listing at martinhenrycoffee.com. Hours are 5am to 6pm on weekdays, 7am to 6pm Saturday and 7am to 4pm Sunday.