Bluebeard Coffee Roasters

Such an incredible coffee shop. I come here to study pretty often and I always get La Pistola (a spicy mocha). I can't recommend the shop enough, from the chill vibes to the fantastic staff and of course, the incredible coffee. You won't regret paying this place a visit. It's a true Tacoma fixture.

Walked in for the first time, was so blown away by the Nitro Draft Oatmilk Latte, I bought a bag of their espresso beans since they also roast at this location.

Stopped in for a couple of drinks. Seating is closed due to COVID. Easy to place your order and stay out of the way of others while waiting for your drink. Looking forward to visiting for a bit when the lobby is able to reopen.

Loved the coffee. Got a spicy mocha, can't remember the name, and an iced mocha. They roast their own beans in house, so it smells great. Also got the dark chocolate raspberry bar and it was delicious. I highly recommend this place.

Nitro Cold brew is to die for. Homemade. But internet does not work. They blame on Verizon. Get it fixed that’s one of the draws to come here.

Updated: Cool location, roomie for the most part inside. But the bathrooms are a little weird. Coffee was better then last visit! Though the London fog wasn’t made properly (needs two tea bags and they should stay in) hopefully they can fix that. But I raised the rating.

The “La Pistola” is delicious. Their cappuccinos got me through my taxes.

I was a frequent customer of Bluebeard Coffee. I’ve been going here since 2012. I’ve spoken well of it to many fellow Tacoma peeps, some of whom didn’t even know it existed.

I was super disappointed the other day (three weeks ago now), when I went by and saw all of the seating had been taken away. It was a cold day and I wanted to stop in. No place to sit. When I moved here in 2020, this place was an absolute hub for parents, students, whomever. Plenty of places to sit. I was excited to have a coffee shop in my neighborhood. Since then they have had seating very inconsistently.

I did what any customer is welcome to do and left a review on both Yelp and then as the problem persisted, here on Google.

Two years in to the pandemic it seemed really extreme to me to remove the chairs. If this wasn’t the reasoning behind moving the tables out, let your customers know.

Reviews are partly to give the businesses some feedback, and I’m sure I’m not the only one who was disappointed at the lack of chairs. It’s a coffee shop. After simply saying “No seating is ridiculous, you’re probably losing a lot of business for no reason”, the reply from the business owner was really immature & unprofessional.

“Yea, __________ .We’re hiring for that now. One star review. Adios”, that’s his response.

Another response to a one star review ........

“It is our pleasure not seeing you back, _______We can recommend other places we don’t enjoy that you will love! Thanks!

I see that the owner Kevin likes to leave replies that sound like a bully on a playground, especially towards females. I will not support a business that acts in that way.

The coffee isn’t good enough to have piss poor customer service. Even if it was top notch, there’s really no excuse to act in such a way towards customers.

Needless to say, this left a bad taste in my mouth. Adios, indeed. Good coffee is everywhere, good customer service is not. Work on your customer service & experience. I recommend Red Elm or Lenders instead.
Both places are friendly & the coffee is always good.

I would say cool environment and staff really nice but coffee is so so to milky even for a cortado. So go there for environment not really the coffee

Greta place over on 6th Ave. The coffee is delicious and the raspberry croissants are my guilty pleasure as well.