Dcha Cafe

a good find on west alaska drive, which isn't the most obvious stretch to go looking for specialty coffee. dcha sits in lakewood's quieter residential-commercial mix, and that location probably filters out the drop-in crowd, leaving mostly people who actually came for the coffee. locals here have settled on it as a reliable place, which in a city this saturated with options means something. you don't have to go downtown to get something worth drinking. the cafe has built a steady reputation without the visibility that comes from being on a high-foot-traffic corridor, and that kind of word-of-mouth standing tends to stick. worth timing a visit around a slow weekday morning on west alaska drive, when the neighborhood is still waking up.