Some good wholesome organic vegetarian food with some great beverage options!

Great atmosphere, local people smiling, excellent service. They were kind and had fun art everywhere

New Tradition s Fair is such an amazing experience. I went there seven years ago I purchased jewelry hand made with lapis from a village. This place has many gifts from many countries. If you decide to go there I am sure it will be amazing.

Lots of yummy vegan options (and non vegan). The atmosphere is bright and enjoyable and the food is fresh and comforting.

Exquisite fair trade store and restaurant. We went tonight to join my Mom at Tellabration.Great stories were shared while the food and drinks flowed. Met lots of friends and heard some really great stories. A grand time in Olympia!

Traditions has built their reputation on being fair trade, but when it comes to treatment of employees, I believe the owners are deeply unethical. I understand they fire people over personal grudges and misunderstandings. In my experience, Traditions new management team is just like any other business, their only concern is their bottom line- any warmth and friendliness is just branding, in service to lining their pockets.

Had a great time at this wonderful establishment with excellent food and live music! The salmon salad was truly exceptional and I also loved their 8n-house chai tea w/ traditional black tea or non-caffeinated rooibos tea! Delicious! The store is pretty awesome with a lot of wonderful fair trade unique items as well. Simply a great stop for food and shopping when visiting Olympia for me and the locals seem to love it too given the music night was packed!

Ambiance was wonderful overlooking the harbor near . Servings were generous. Help was quick and a tentative. Im looking forward to going back the next time I am in Olympia.

A great Olympia classic! The vegan panini is superb!!

Great collection of items. Tons of things, good prices. Native art through Mexican art. I loved the shop.

Great place for unique gifts. Wonderful friendly service. Nice brew, cider, and beer too! If your passing by must stop at this one of a kind store.

Great food, 98% of it is pretty darn healthy, too! The cafe is very nice, great background music, and friendly, laid back (but hard-working) staff. The store must be seen to be believed, with wonderful imported items from exotic places. Many of them hard to resist! Probably the best place in Olympia to spend some time. Great concerts in the evenings, often, as well.

Great atmosphere and the staff are very kind, good people. They have live bands occasionally and can seat around 50 to 60 I think. Great veggie and gluten free options. Black bean enchilada was great. They also sell local art.

A very welcoming cafe and shop. Well priced healthy food, get a beautifully made drink from some of the fabulous staff. A great place to sit and watch the magic that is Olympia. Slip into the shop next door for fair-trade and beautifully made goods.

This place has such a wonderful atmosphere. The food is really nourishing. The small gift store is full of many beautiful hand made, fair trade products. Its worth visiting if you havent. Also, the owner is one of the sweetest persons in Olympia, WA.

One of my favorite places to eat and shop in all of Olympia. Great variety of entertainment too. Friendly owners and staff.

Traditions is AMAZING! Friendly folks, cool food and fair trade everything.

I love this place. I cant recommend their Greek salad enough, its absolutely incredible.

The food here is delicious and locally sourced. All items in the store are fair trade and carefully handmade crafted. A great contribution to Olympia.

Fair Trade handmade items from around the world. Selected by two of the sweetest souls in our town.

A very friendly and welcoming shop. Variety of gifts from around the world and a place to meet and discuss with other people issues or just share conversations

Great food!! Nice staff.. relaxing place to converse over tea..

Cheerful staff, wonderful food, delightful shopping! I love that place. My daughter and I always go to Traditions for lunch when we get together in Olympia.

Shopped for a gift and found a wealth of International artisan jewelry and clothing and accessories. Fun to see so much in one place and there are still people who choose to import quality work.

I went with a friend to experience their open Mic!! What a fun treat!! Great atmosphere and yummy food. And I was able to get some gift shopping in afterwards...always a bonus!!!

Enjoyable atmosphere. Great fair trade organic coffee. And fun community events! Worth checking out!

What a fun place to stop and have a little tea party! Their lemon bar was gluten free and absolutely delicious.

An amazing little shop in Olympia for artisan jewellery, clothing, world percussion bits and all manner of gifts! An absolutely wonderful woman runs the store! We traded stories about our dogs, the beautiful city of Olympia and music. What a pleasant experience!!! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!

Global items. Unique gifts. Attached cafe has the best smoked salmon quiche!

Its just THE place to go. :-) My sisters and I meet there for great eats and vibe. Its a local treasure. We shop there for our Holiday gifts, great fair trade selections! We have large family gatherings, as well as quick bite with the little ones. Theres an area for little ones to play with toys. So smart! And when theres live music its just the perfect day. On street parking is a a pain in the rain but thats a downtown thing and totally worth it. :-)

Traditions commitment to Fair Trade artisans and industry around the globe is awe inspiring. As a music venue, you couldnt ask for a more comfortable atmosphere. As a restaurant, it is a regular go to for my me and my family, but go with an appetite.If youre visiting Olympia, please visit Traditions, its an amazing gem in our community.

I enjoy the atmosphere, the pay it forward program, the variety of international artwork and musician they host and the wonderful food! Bravo for supporting fair trade and local needs at the same time. Always pleasurable employees and friendly service with outdoor seating and located next door to both the capital lake Park and a smaller park with a jumping fountain and catty corner from bayveiw thriftway grocery store. I have ordered many salads, soups, sandwiches and desserts including icecream plus coffee from traditions and it is consistently delicious and nutritious and just right!

The ice cream was really good, the bat talk was full of amazing information, learned so much.

Good food in a peaceful atmosphere. Parking is not exactly easy, but the food is very good, employees friendly. Two restrooms in back. A pleasant view.

Havent spent much time in the store, but they have great quiche and coffee!

Best clam chowder on the west coast

Traditions is a one-of-a-kind gem! Wholesome, delicious, reasonably priced food, with a great variety of live entertainment.

Love Traditions!! First to welcome us always warm heartfelt staff. Fair Trade Representatives from the door all around the showroom floor

Great selection of unique gifts, clothing and SWAG from a variety of international locales and markets. I truly enjoy browsing the selections, supporting independent craft makers and artisans. Also recommend enjoying the Cafe.

An Olympia institution. Simple, hand-made meals with a little something extra to transcend expectations or predictability. Wholesome and inspiring. Great ingredients and service. Community art and music events and feature performances make this a low-key but vital community center.

Stopped there yesterday with a friend and had a wonderful lunch and great little shopping experience at the gift shop too. Will return for lunch again, begat a treat!!

Fair trade, vegetarian, local, organic.That sums up traditions. The cafe is nothing fancy but it is good. The ice Cream is good, as is the vegetarian dishes. The store has typical fair trade goods. I like it.

The food was wonderful. They whip theyre own cream and use fresh, local eggs. They serve soups, sandwiches (cold and paninis), and various entrees like black bean enchilada, quiches, lasagna... They have some baked goods and a wide selection of drinks from herbal teas to Italian sodas. All super yummy and reasonably priced.The cafe itself was cute, comfortable, and quiet. They have a lending library (about fair trade topics) and a small play area for kids (blocks, etc).From the cafe side you can wander into the store side where theres fairly good quality and attractive fair trade products. Woven headbands, reed baskets, cooperative board games, wooden blocks and figures, recycled paper journals and cards, rubber tire purses, etc. The owner is sweet and friendly.Paid street parking only. Shouldnt be TOO hard to find. We went at 1 on a Wed and found parking right away.All in all, worth it.

Love Traditions,food is good and reasonable and the shop carried many beautiful wares .

Wonderful laid back atmosphere. A living room away from home. Good food too

Fresh mostly organic food. Really good prices.

A very comfortable place!

Food is fantastic and very reasonable. Eclectic vibe, local owner. Near Percival Landing with boardwalk. Great for vegetarians. Real food! Desserts, Olympic Mountain ice cream. A treasure. Many local groups meet here such as poetry group, public welcome.

Fine fair trade objects of beauty and joy fill the shop. The people there are always friendly. The cafe has very good food, good prices, and a relaxed atmosphere. The concerts and other cultural events are great, and views of the lake and capital are wonderful.

Yummy food. Hub of community and culture. Fair trade shop with artisan products. We love traditions!

This is my favorite special place in Olympia. This is where Olympias activists go to nourish our souls.

Great local place. Very casual - bus your own table, hang out. Many local performances and meetings are held here. The fair trade store has something for everyone, and has improved since my last visit - fun to walk through, a little like a gallery, and better lighting​. The cafe doesnt have enough fresh baked goods, and no vegan baked goods. The menu is not extensive and feels a little dusty (as though it has never changed). But its a reliable place (though they did make me the wrong beverage) and a local favorite. Very family friendly, even with some toys.

An Olympia institution that is family friendly, conveniently located and community AND globally minded. Food side great for lunch or ice cream, tea or coffee and a cookie. Shop side beautifully remodeled with amazing fair trade merchandise.

My daughters favorite place! Love the salad dressing

I love this place; shop and cafe. There is a social justice lending library. Cafe food is top quality and prepared with love and care and service is kind and friendly. The seating area is cozy and relaxing. The store is one of a kind in the region with artisan crafts from all over the world including wonderful clothing and houseware items and toys and books etc. I cant wait to visit again next time Im in Olympia or driving through.

Lil expensive. Very tasty. Great atmosphere

The food is very good and reasonably priced and there is always several plant-based somethings to eat there. Friendly folks. The owner is a hero for all he has done for artists, musicians, writers and activists. Check out the music calendar!

Very healthy food choices and kind staff.

Lovely is the best word I can come up with to describe our experience here. Warm and welcoming

I love this place. Its tiny but impressive. The imports are hand-selected with care by the owner and range from practical clothing to outrageous figures. Stop by.

Simple homemade food with a taste of oly. You got Olympia bakery goods, some oly coffee roasters, and the Olympia vibe all in on area that also has a shop with cool trinkets and handmade goods. I come here in my lunch because the food is simple and takes like 5 minutes at the most to be done. Its great!

Such color and quality. They source all their fair trade goods themselves. Really wonderful items, arts, artisan goods.

Wonderful restaurant and gift shop!

The salmon Panini was rich and satisfying

Great food, a conscious environment, one- of- a- kind gifts and clothing, live folk and world music.A great place to meet. Jodi greets you with a smile.

Great food and a great environment.

Very nice place with great customer service!

Quaint to have a bite to eat and shop for unique gifts. The staff are wonderful.

Part cafe, part fair-trade shoppe, Traditions to me feels like the waystation for this time and place. No other business in Olympia gathers the community together in the same way. The food is good, nutritous, and locally sourced from small farms and businesses, and affordable with both coffee (Olympia Coffee) and beans and rice available on days where you might be short on cash via a pay it forward program. And the seasonal offering of ice cream...so good!Because there is no wifi, people talk, read, write, and play (the stage serves as a play area for kids, with baskets of toys) in a very natural way.Theres colorful community and worker oriented art on the walls, a piano, and a lending library in the cafe. A great spot to have a bite and watch people walk around the lake, or to get food or coffee to go and walk the lake yourself!

Extremely cultural and local community. Very open-minded and welcoming. Pay it forward policy allows people to buy coffees for people who cant afford them. High-value cultural shopping center attached. Lots of resources and local information inside.

At any given moment Im willing to bet Im the most conservative person in the place... and yet I truly love it!

I always love to visit Traditions. So many beautiful items. And great food, and great people.

Excellent, great chicken penne, fresh salad, fair prices

Wonderful cafe love the chai tea

Love this cafe and shop! They serve amazing food and such great quality as well. You have to try the enchiladas

Wonderful cool stuff from indigenous cultures around the world!

Love the food, the people who care about people internationally. . amazibg crafts imports ...good for lunch or early dinner. .you cant beat the view of the lake and you can trust their food sourcing. ..

Lovely merchandise and owners. Very good, healthful food. Nice atmosphere.

Nice, low key, felt a little out of place being younger and less worried about my self branding then most of the crowd.

Great lunch options, smaller menu

A community center that masquerades as a cafe. Wonderful, longstanding Olympia institution.

Always have a pleasant visit to the gift shop and the staff are friendly and welcoming. They gave us directions and was very helpful with our visit to Olympia. :)

Place is dissociatively hateful. They followed me to the bathroom to watch me poop and kicked me out saying I was inherently sinning, earlier having said that I was a spy for NASA (outside of their place) and also an Indian devil worshipper later trying to undermine their white culture, something I dont think makes sense coming from a multicultural store (are they advertising exploiting people), when I never interacted or talked to them or anybody in there. I ordered coffee, I worked on my computer, I bought merchandise from their store. There was no reason for this. Im a writer. Theyre responsible for constantly undermining and disturbing my work for absolutely >>>no

The baristas that I delt with today were rude. I ordered an iced drink and the staff that was making it forgot my whipped cream which wasnt a problem, until she came back. Instead of giving me a dome lid she squished the whipped cream on top which made the cup to full causing leakage from the sides and when i put my straw in, the drink burst through the top creating a huge mess, meanwhile she sees this and sees me trying to clean up and instead of asking if I needed help or transfering my drink into a better cup she turns and walks away. Mind you my 16 ounce drink cost around $9. Never going there again or recommending. Go to Burial Grounds or Starbucks you get better tasting drinks that are decently priced and the staff isnt rude.

Great hideaway when we are in Olympia.

Just too cute

Traditions is not a bar. It is a fair trade import store; soup and sandwich shop; and a stage where local and not so local musicians perform.

THE best coffee and friendly service :)

My favorite place in town to have a herbal chai tea with soy milk and a vegan panini

Unique merchandise and very helpful and knowledgeable staff.

One of my favorite places to shop, eat, and catch a performance in Olympia.

Good food and nice live music, events.Homegrown feel.

Folksy, down-to-earth place. Coffe shop with vegan menu. Live shows as well.

We have been going to Traditions for almost ten years now. Its a great place to find a special gift or a great cup of soup and coffee.

Its ok. Very hipster, if you like that.

Awesome shop. Support fair trade. Delicious food

Good food and a comfortable place to relax with friends. Interesting merchandise available for sale.

Beautiful shop. The owner is a great story teller.

Great place to find really speacial gifts from all over the world I love this place everyone is so pleasant also the cafe next door is awesome they had an awsome folksy band there so we stayed even longer very relaxing Im going to start going there more often now that I know the cafe is great thanks for having a place this speacial in our town

Down to Earth hip. Good food. Oh the lemonade!!