Bonito Café y Mercadito

"Maybe it’s something about the way the stone-covered space becomes even moodier when it’s gloomy outside, but this Latino cafe is any ideal location for brooding over a dirty horchata chai as you contribute to society in exchange for a salary. In addition to a handful of big round tables, there’s bleacher seating in an upstairs loft if you prefer to use that laptop how the inventor of the thing initially intended. Grab a blackberry passionfruit-stuffed concha, and it’s dangerously easy to linger for hours." - aimee rizzo

"A new cafe that feels like simultaneously visiting a bodega and your coolest friend’s apartment, offering pastries like oreja and Salvadoran honey quesadilla." - Charlie Lahud-Zahner

"In September, the highly anticipated Latinx- and LGBTQ-friendly coffee shop finally opened its doors on Capital Hill. Come for the light-filled, high-ceilinged space, stay for the drinks (one combines espresso and Mexican Coke) and whatever you do, get one of the pan dulce to go: They’re made by Selva Central Goods, and the quesadilla salvadorena (a sweet corn cake) is impossible to resist." - Meg van Huygen, Harry Cheadle

"Opening: September 14th With drinks like horchata chai, cafe de olla, and a passionfruit blackberry concha, this Capitol Hill coffee shop (and small market) is already piquing our interest. " - kayla sager riley

"Capitol Hill has a bright new coffee shop on a busy corner of Olive Way that has a spacious upstairs loft where you can sit down and get some work done. You’ll find a coffee menu that features espresso, cortados, and horchata chai, as well as a few sweet snacks. We recently checked out Bonito Café Y Mercadito. Read our first thoughts on it here." - kayla sager riley, aimee rizzo, gabe guarente