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I'm back from my vacation in Seattle. I made sure to eat seafood (mostly salmon) at least once every day. There was a Minecraft exhibit at the Museum of Pop Culture, so I took some videos of that for the nephews. Monday there was a lot of sun, and my friend that I was visiting commented that only I could manage to visit Seattle in the middle of winter and get sunburned. My favorite spots were all in Pike Market: a wine, cheese, chocolate, and cured meat tasting room overlooking the sound (Northwest Tastings), a coffee room with a huge fireplace (Storyville), and Pike Place Chowder, which was so good I ate there twice.
Other places of note I visited:
Derby - I ate a tasty steak salad and drank a Hot Rod Toddy while looking at classic cars
Macrina Bakery and Cafe - their brunch menu is reprinted each weekend, so I'm assuming the menu options also change regularly
Robot vs Sloth - I bought two monsters books there and resisted with all my effort buying all the plushie bats
Beecher's Handmade Cheese - watched from the street corner as they made the cheese - bought some truffle cheese to introduce my friend to truffles for the first time and bought some aged cheddar to bring home - the guy there said if I like truffles....
Truffle Queen - OMG, so much truffle! She was weighing in a fresh batch of truffles when I arrived. I opted for some truffle salt instead of truffle mustard, although I may still order some online for later, since that is my favorite to go with sausage
The Crumpet Shop - I wanted to try about 5 of them
Village Sushi - Joe has been there for decades, makes the best damn sushi, has the largest hamachi kama I have eaten to-date, and has the best stereo setup you will ever find in a sushi place on which he plays a lot of classic rock and jazz
Elliott Bay Book Co. - so totally worth a visit - in the heart of the gay district
The Purple Store - not false advertising
There was a glass-blowers shop in the Occidental Square area of the International District/Chinatown.
We also stopped by The Pinball Museum, but that was actually really disappointing, so I took a couple of pics and didn't bother going in. We have some better arcade bars in Dallas that put this place to shame.
Places I didn't really have time to see: Chihuly Gardens and Glass, Living Computer Museum, Museum of Flight, any art or science museums (although we did visit an open gallery where a friend was displaying along with some others - I actually bought a couple prints from another artist and then promptly left them at the sushi place - they will be mailed to me eventually), Space Needle (I had just as good a view from my friend's 26th story Oracle lunch room, and that was free), Underground Tour (I did that ~15 years ago when I visited previously, so didn't feel the need to do it again), Seattle Aquarium and/or zoo
Despite my friend now living in Seattle for a few years, I was able to introduce her to new things: meat pies, a new dumpling house and Occidental Square in Chinatown, truffles!, Macrina brunch, Storyville coffee, and she'd never been on the harbor tour cruise, so we did that together as well.
Other places of note I visited:
Derby - I ate a tasty steak salad and drank a Hot Rod Toddy while looking at classic cars
Macrina Bakery and Cafe - their brunch menu is reprinted each weekend, so I'm assuming the menu options also change regularly
Robot vs Sloth - I bought two monsters books there and resisted with all my effort buying all the plushie bats
Beecher's Handmade Cheese - watched from the street corner as they made the cheese - bought some truffle cheese to introduce my friend to truffles for the first time and bought some aged cheddar to bring home - the guy there said if I like truffles....
Truffle Queen - OMG, so much truffle! She was weighing in a fresh batch of truffles when I arrived. I opted for some truffle salt instead of truffle mustard, although I may still order some online for later, since that is my favorite to go with sausage
The Crumpet Shop - I wanted to try about 5 of them
Village Sushi - Joe has been there for decades, makes the best damn sushi, has the largest hamachi kama I have eaten to-date, and has the best stereo setup you will ever find in a sushi place on which he plays a lot of classic rock and jazz
Elliott Bay Book Co. - so totally worth a visit - in the heart of the gay district
The Purple Store - not false advertising
There was a glass-blowers shop in the Occidental Square area of the International District/Chinatown.
We also stopped by The Pinball Museum, but that was actually really disappointing, so I took a couple of pics and didn't bother going in. We have some better arcade bars in Dallas that put this place to shame.
Places I didn't really have time to see: Chihuly Gardens and Glass, Living Computer Museum, Museum of Flight, any art or science museums (although we did visit an open gallery where a friend was displaying along with some others - I actually bought a couple prints from another artist and then promptly left them at the sushi place - they will be mailed to me eventually), Space Needle (I had just as good a view from my friend's 26th story Oracle lunch room, and that was free), Underground Tour (I did that ~15 years ago when I visited previously, so didn't feel the need to do it again), Seattle Aquarium and/or zoo
Despite my friend now living in Seattle for a few years, I was able to introduce her to new things: meat pies, a new dumpling house and Occidental Square in Chinatown, truffles!, Macrina brunch, Storyville coffee, and she'd never been on the harbor tour cruise, so we did that together as well.