The new cafe opened Monday in the 818 Stewart building (at Stewart Street and 9th Avenue) and has weekday-only hours for the downtown working crowd: 6 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The cafe is Dilettante's sixth, and sells espresso drinks as well as the chocolatier's locally made candies. Other Mocha Cafes are in Westlake Mall, Sea-Tac Airport, Kent Station, Rainier Square and the Dilettante Mocha Martini Bar on Capitol Hill.

Dilettante has shifted locations a bit since merging with Seattle Gourmet Foods in 2006, including closing its cafe in Bellevue last year and recently canceling plans to open in The Bravern.

Seattle Gourmet Foods President Dave Taylor told Seattle Times reporter Amy Martinez in May that Dilettante continues to look on the Eastside and is working with the Bravern's developer, Schnitzer West, for a third location in downtown Seattle.

Perhaps he'd consider something a little further east, like the long-vacant shop at 23rd Avenue and Cherry Street in the Central District where Dilettante made chocolate beginning in the '80s (third photo).

After it joined Seattle Gourmet Foods, Dilettante closed a remodeled Mocha Cafe there and moved its chocolate-making operation to Kent. Two years later, the 4,200-square-foot space is still empty -- and, according to signs on the windows, for sale.