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One day only...
cafe besalu and a walk at the locks gardens and fish-viewing-ladder
Mosey on to Golden Gardens at Shilshole Marina and share some flavors at Paseo there.
Heading back inland, all of Ballard is there, and Fremont beyond. See Lenin and the Troll enroute to Art of the Table. The zoo is near, too, and Fisherman's Terminal. Pickled Herring from Fresh Fish Company (and Cascioppo Brothers sausages). Go to the zoo with Tallgrass bread and light a grill for the fish. Full Tilt Ube ice cream and a nightcap at Golden Beetle and pack it in. Next morning, Bakery Nouveau 4737 California Ave SW - twice baked almond croissant
Taylor Shellfish (Cap Hill)
Thank you, Howard, it sure could have been.
Twenty-two years after the adoption of ADA, this egregious failure is disheartening.
In Seattle for the first time with a baby!
Vios, at 19th Ave E & E Aloha St, is part restaurant and part romper-room and good with kids of all ages. There's a Sunday farmer's market right in front of Seattle Central Community College, at Broadway Ave. E. and E. Pine St. Another is at Pike Place, which is a classic browse (no chain stores except Starbuck's #1). Big John's PFI, at 1001 6th Avenue S, will fill a morning, though a quick dash could get you charcuterie, cheeses, and pasta in a flash. While you're on the hill, a stair-climb up the Volunteer Park water tower has one of the top views in town.
Good BBQ in Seattle?
We visited Roro on 15th (was Zesto) recently and came away convinced that we'd eat there every day, if we were in high-school across the street, but just the sides. We loved the cornbread - moist, with a mysteriously subdued sweetness, good tooth, corny, caramelized, nice. Garlic mashed potatoes, fries, and mac & cheese were a good value and substantial.
Grocery Store Soup - Who Has the Best?
Single stops, unfortunately, but Fresh Fish has a good Cioppino, as does Jack's @ Pike Place. FF has crab-cakes, too: a few minutes in a pan and eat. George's Deli, on Madison has a rotation of soups, including a mushroom soup I like.
Falafel?
Cafe Mawadda, in Columbia City, at 4433 S Graham St (S 46th Ave & S Rainier Ave), has a nice falafel. Not at all the green paste some are, but nearly fluffy and quite good. We'd be there often, but we live in the North end and only rarely get to deepest Rainier.
Dot's Deli, Fremont
I had cold charcuterie at Verace, too, and they reported that the health department demanded they keep the food inside the safe zone til time of serving. I'd hope for a more generous interpretation of "time of serving," but this rigidity is not all that uncommon.
Crushed Ice for Mint Juleps?
Pre-crushed ice is more or less guaranteed to taste like a plastic bag and be entirely absent the little ice crystals that finish the Julep. Just freeze some water today (not yesterday, surely not last week and absolutely not older than that) and crush it yourself, as Lauren suggests and as shown here: http://sourmashmanifesto.com/
And food trucks near the Convention Center?
I guess all I remember from our visit (we never went back) was the bad bread and the HUGE MEAT. Though I do think I'd remember if the meat was bad, we never did go back.
Group Lunch in University District Area
Ivar's is especially good, I think, for out-of-town visitors, as it features local history, a great view, and well-known food that (usually, though ymmv) runs from entirely serviceable to quite good. Ivar is good with clams, mussels, and fish-and-chips.
In summer, the barge is open, so you can hang out on the water for hours.
Group Lunch in University District Area
You took the words right outta my mouth, Lotus.
The place had good history in it, has a great view, presents an established menu with plenty of NW connection. I claim that on a good day, you can get a great piece of fish there, though friends dispute my findings. The prices are moderate and Happy Hour (Bar only) is a killer.
And food trucks near the Convention Center?
Baguette Box, 1203 Pine - Quirky, tasty, fresh, fusion
George's Sausage & Delicatessen 907 Madison - Crowded with 4 people. Grilled to order meat sandwiches, soups. German and Polish specialties. Reuben is gooey but fun and good.
It's a sweet route, from the 4th floor N lobby exit into Freeway Park and quickly up the ramp/stairs at the main cataract, up to 9th Avenue and then 3 blocks south to Madison.
Exit onto Pike street and a few blocks to 1124 Howell St is Markethouse Meats. Corned beef and nothing but. Sandwich the size of a lunchbucket.
Dot's Deli, Fremont
kaleo: All I can do is plead ignorance. In my defense, all this cheesesteak rookie had to go on was a thirty-year-old experience of one sandwich in Philadelphia. I did not worry, because learning was the whole point of the cheesesteak-challenge and what I felt myself to have learned at the end of that day with those sandwiches was that there was only a nickel's worth of difference between any of them, but Blue Heron, arguably, won that day by a nose.That was just one day, though, and the learning continues. With just that background, I was not drawn to the cheesesteak on the special board at Dot's, but when I asked the cook to tell me something about it, he got vague: "well, ours is a little different, here", to which I said "Good, I'll have that," and I'm glad I did. The provolone is presented as a sauce, so the sandwich is borderline too-drippy, but manages to stay inside the boundaries of eatability. The meat bears little resemblance to the more typical dessicated flakes of basic-brown. I hope to rehabilitate my reputation and that you will get to Dot's for this cheesesteak.
Dot's Deli, Fremont
Lunch at Dot's today = cheesesteak.
>>> Not long ago, I participated in a small Seattle cheesesteak challenge. We had a half-dozen sandwiches from the usual suspects. We tried to decide which ones did which aspects better, but in the end they were all more alike than different. Today, at Dot's, that changed forvever.
Real beef, peppers, provolone sauce. OMG, the undisputed champion.
What to eat for a first-timer to Seattle?
Please note, too, that the Pike Place Market (locals call it "The Market") is a regulated venue.
Unlike the cookie-cutter "food courts" in malls everywhere, chain stores are forbidden. The high-stalls are locally owned resellers, and you really will "meet the producer" at the low stalls.
What to eat for a first-timer to Seattle?
This is a happy second to DOT's.
The Reuben is among the meatiest the city.
Coq au van, Cassoulet, Merguez sausage - the hits just keep on coming.
Golden Beetle is another star, especially at Happy Hour, and Quinn's.
Where to purchase Pho noodles
And they just won't stop coming...
Thai Curry Simple 406 5th Ave. S carries lots of super-economical house-prepped sauces.
A lot of fun.
Joule relocating
I just saw an item in the Fremont Universe Blog:
Joule will move this summer. Closing the Wallingford restaurant in April and opening in summer, in a new mixed-use restaurant and retail project called The Fremont Collective, being developed at 3506 Stone Way N.
http://www.fremontuniverse.com/
Graduation Dinner with Dad
One of the best-prepared pieces of fish of my life was at Salvatore's, a little chef-owned Italian place at 6100 Roosevelt Way NE. If the special isn't halibut the day you go, get whatever Salvatore is offering on the special board that day. The specials are where Salvatore shows-of. The place is hilariously old-school. The Godfather wait-staff have been there forever (and know their menu), and the red-checker tablecloths are right out of the movies. It could surely use an update, but he does the standard well and the exceptional exceptionally.
Where to purchase Pho noodles
Tsu Chong 8th & King
Just noodles, fortune cookies, as near as I can tell.
How to avoid Burnt Skin on Baked Sweet Potato
For the mess, I put foil on a lower rack.
Roast til the skin slips easily. Yes, if everything is going right, the skin will char and pull away from the flesh. It doesn't matter how black (sugars will do that) the skins get, as the inside get slick with that gooey caramalization and the papery skins are ready to peel away.
>>Oh, and Asian markets (Uwajimaya, et al) carry Satsuma Imo, an intensely sweet sweet potato.
>>At a picnic, quietly equip a charcoal BBQ grill with a flat black steel pan over the coals, an inch or so of rock salt, and a big, drafty lid. Cut satsuma imo longwise, place face-down on the rock-salt, cover, and roast until they are ready. The aroma will draw more and more attention as it cooks.
Calling all bread bakers...
eric's home ciabatta
Bread: No Knead Ciabatta
2c flour (1 1/2c AP + 1/2c WW 2AP + 1/2 WW just 2 AP)
1 t salt
¼ t yeast (I wonder what happens @ 1/8 t?)
Add 1 c warmest tap water and mix with a stick (expect raggy, but persist)
Cover dough with plastic wrap to keep it moist (right on dough or tight over bowl)
Rise 18 hours @ room temperature
Flour your station
Dump and form the dough into a slipper shape
Leave to rise again, 2 hours, airily covered
(turn on 425 degree oven to pre-heat ½ hr before end of rise)
Oil baking sheet liberally
Bake @ 425 for 35-45 minutes on oiled sheet
Brush warm loaf liberally with good evoo
> ? Olives, rosemary, salt...?
downtown and Burbaby, Vancouver
The boss took a bunch of people out to Joey's. Chainy, but good moussaka and chapati.
Final address 1000 Beach Ave
At last, we have an address. Looking for chow on either end of the Granville Bridge. The worksite end is in or near Yaletown/West End and the leisure side is in Fairview/Kitsalano. Mostly looking for workingpersons lunch (fast) on the Fairview side and dinner on the Yaletown side. There will be am occasion or two for a splurge, too, which might take us farther afield.
For orientation, Q Go Ramen was quite satisfactory, with good porky broth, very quick, reasonably healthy, and close enough to the job near Broadway and Birch. Maria's Moussaka was good and the chicken livers great. Thank you all
Tacoma, Olympia, Raymond, Mcleary, Montesano, Raymond
Will be taking a trip mid April to Raymond WA and back to Seattle. Looking for breakfast on the trip out and dinner on the trip back. We are hoping hounds can suggest tasty stops along this route.
YYC Hound back for a visit.
A great idea. Remember those take-out boxes hold a lot of food. Consider bringing a stack of plates and some better flatware than the bendy polypropylene from Paseo.
