The Fat Hen – What to Eat in Seattle
1418 NW 70th St Seattle, WA 98117 Believe-it-or-not, not every restaurant we visited made it into the “where to eat” section of this blog. We tried several brunch joints, and in the end are including only two, which offer a good “spread”, one representing excellence in “greasy spoon” diner food (it’s not actually greasy), […]
The Fare for That Itinerary is No longer Available – Travel Hacks
If the above looks familiar, you’ve fallen victim to one of the most annoying little-known idiosyncrasies of online flight booking. After weeks of searching, watching the trend lines, monitoring the fare alerts, and comparing airlines and itineraries, you’re finally ready to buy, so you click “select” on your choice-of-flight, you click through to the […]
Airfare Hacks 2 – The Real Way to Score Cheap Airfare
There’s a lot of so-called science about booking cheap airfares, some of it (like the assertion that airfares are cheapest at the beginning of the week) mostly-true, some of it (that 3-months-in-advance is a “sweet spot”, or that certain weekdays are always cheaper to fly) dubious. Luckily, we don’t need folklore. We have Kayak. […]
Hye Ky Mi Gia – Cheap Eats in Seattle
1207 S Jackson St Seattle, WA 98144 Anyone with a finely-honed taste for Asian food respects the mini mall. To some, the concrete jungle of LA’s koreatown, bespotted as it is by nail salons, massage parlors, cram schools, and travel agencies, is a thing of beauty. Of course we’re writing not about LA, but about […]
Umi Sake House – What to Eat in Seattle
2230 1st Ave Seattle, WA 98121 Seattle has, for many years enjoyed a close relationship with its neighbor across the pond, Japan, and Japan has made its influence felt in different ways here than in New York. It’s deeper, older. You notice it right away in the food. Japanese food in New York seems transplanted […]
Green Leaf Vietnamese Cafe – Cheap Eats in Seattle
418 8th Ave S Seattle, WA Like many good Asian restaurants in the US, the Green Leaf presents exceptional food in unassuming surroundings. Located on the south-eastern corner of Seattle’s “China Town” – really an international district including restaurants, shops, grocery stores, boutiques, and even museums representing Chinese, Taiwanese, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Filipino […]
Eight Mistakes You’re Probably Making When You Travel – Travel Hacks
Photo by Jaysin Trevino If you’ve traveled at all in the last decade, you’ve probably encountered travel stress. It’s counter-intuitive: we take vacations, honeymoons, and family trips in order to escape the rigors of everyday life, not to compound them. Yet, if we’re being completely honest, even our best vacations probably included some moments […]
The Watertown Hotel and Yelp Sleepers – Where to Stay in Seattle
The process by which we discovered the Watertown Hotel was not entirely obvious to me when I attempted to reverse engineer it using Yelp. But the Watertown was one of the better hotels I’ve experienced in the US, and the price was astonishingly low. All the more reason it deserves special mention in the […]
Paseo – What to Eat in Seattle
Everything they’ve told you is true. There’s nothing like Paseo in New York. The flavors are unlike Banh Mi, unlike anything at DeFonte’s, subtlely different from anything I’d experienced before. Let’s get this out of the way right up front – an expert on Cuban food I am not. I’ve had great Cuban cooking […]
SEATAC Airport Food Survival Guide – Seattle
An oft-overlooked area in travel writing is airport survival. Some airports, like Hong Kong, have restaurant-worthy food options at arm’s reach. Standards in the US are somewhat more modest. JFK’s terminal 5, pretty-as-it-is, is a food desert. SEATAC falls on the slightly-better-than-average space on the spectrum. There are decent eats to be had, if […]
