Meral Embel at her Pike Place Market shop.
In 2004, in the town of Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye, Meral Embel picked up Pour Your Heart Into It, by former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz. The book centered on two things she loved, business and coffee, and it rekindled a long-held dream. Fourteen years later, that fantasy became reality when she opened her own Turkish café just blocks from the Starbucks where Schultz himself took his first sip of Sumatra.
At Miss Café in the Pike Place Market, Embel uses coffee beans imported from Türkiye and offers coffee served in tulip-patterned red and white cups representing the country’s national flower and
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