Voula’s Offshore Cafe – What to Eat in Seattle
658 NE Northlake Way Seattle, WA 98105 Voula’s is just about as directly opposite The Fat Hen as you can get within the confines of deliciousness. For starters, it was featured on Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives. High falutin this is not. (And good damn riddance.) Amid spartan surroundings, Voula’s cuts-to-the-chase, serving up big portions of […]
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), […]
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 […]
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 […]
Pike Place Market and the Bubblegum Wall – Seattle
So, first question: is pike place market worth an afternoon? The answer is a qualified “yes”. If it’s your first trip, definitely go. The street theater, like the fish-tossing-guys, is entertaining, and, lest I forget, this is a *real market*, with fantastic produce, seafood, flowers, and other odds-and-ends. Try samples, eat at one of […]
Puget Sound Ferry Mini-Road Trip – Seattle
If it’s your first visit to Seattle, or even if it’s not, it might be worth your while to take the ferry across Puget sound to either Bainbridge Island or Bremmerton, drive up the strait, and take the Kingston ferry back. I’ve termed this a “mini-road-trip.” Once across the sound, stuff gets rural. In […]
