Brix is Open! Espresso Vivace has survived the eminent domain seizure of the Roasteria, which closed forever on July 17th 2008, by opening a new Gran Bar at 532 Broadway Ave East. The new coffee bar is 2000 square feet and features our signature curved Italian stand-up bar done this time in Caffe Forest Brown marble. This design reflects Vivace’s 20 year history on Capitol Hill and the design combines elements of our Roasteria and Sidewalk Bar. Personally, we are very pleased with the look, feel, and easy flow of this new bar. To pay tribute to our Roasteria, Brix has an under counter mural, again painted using espresso coffee as a pigment by artist Karen Eland, that depicts our 20 year history on Broadway in sequential panels beginning in 1987 when Geneva and I first built the Broadway Cart. The center panel, shown here, depicts the Roasteria in its prime with Tricia and Mary M. hosting the bar in their warm personal style. In the panoramic view the different phases of coffee research done at the shop are shown in small “elements” along with artist Kurt Wenner depicted installing his mural “An Italian in Algiers” in 1993. On weekdays we offer free wireless along with wired ethernet ports in our study and have abundant sidewalk seating to watch the world go by.

Alley 24 opened March 15th 2006 Espresso Vivace opened a new, 2000 square ft. espresso bar at 227 Yale Ave N., in Alley 24 across from REI. Alley 24 represents our sincere effort to create a place to savor our Northern Italian espresso in a setting as beautiful as the coffee itself. Right next to I-5, with plenty of parking compared to Capitol Hill, this store is the place for our traveling Vivace lovers.