It’s been a while since Seattle’s Best Coffee had a lot to do with its namesake city. Founded in the 1960s by Jim Stewart on Whidbey Island, the company was first called the Wet Whisker, then Stewart Brothers Coffee before changing its name in 1991 to Seattle’s Best. It was bought by Starbucks in 2003, then sold to multinational food and beverage giant Nestlé in 2022. Though Seattle’s Best used to operate cafes all over the world—including one i…
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