Seattle….food tour…Seattle Bites Food Tour…FABULOUS…
Let’s take a tour of Pike Place Market for $30 (per person) and get healthy sized tasty bites from various famous stands. This is a MUST do in Seattle! And the highlights were…
1) Crepe de France…a Nutella/banana/almond crepe with whipped creme.
2) I Love New York Deli…pastrami and pickels shipped in from New York daily?! A knish that’s a REAL knish!? All from a stand that’s about the size of my bathroom?! I do love New York, even in Seattle.
3) Pike Place Chowder…supposedly the best New England clam chowder in the U.S. Yeah, right, this isn’t New England! But wait, I think it might be the best chowder. And they aren’t allowed to compete in Rhode Island any more because they just kept winning.
4) Maximilien…an “eh” cheese tarte. But a full glass of wine and beautiful view. They say it’s the most romantic restaurant in the market – kissing and such.
5) Uli’s Famous Sausage…good sausage, darn good sausage.
6) Pure Fish Food Market…not the one where they throw the fish, but pretty darn amazing. Smoked salmon. Ah, the smoked salmon. Even my fish-hating fellow traveler gobbled it all up.
7) La Buona Tavola…pretentious “small-batch” wine seller. Filled with passionate winers, the kind that say they don’t drink desert wine because it’s not real wine. They knew their stuff and garnered some instant respect. And the wine was wonderful.
And the tour completed. 3 hours, tons of food, and an inside into the market. Here’s an interesting fact – look up why there are no Japanese sellers in the market. Google it – trust me – it’s interesting.
As a side note, we also grabbed some delicious pastry at Piroshki Piroshki – doughy filled yumminess. And no, we didn’t go to the first Starbucks. And yes, I did go to the first Sur La Table. And no, we didn’t drink Seattle’s Best Coffee – it’s owned by Starbucks. P.S. the FABULOUS flower bouquets are $5 after 5:00 because they want to get rid of them. But you’ll learn that on the tour. You can find them through www.tripadvisor.com – do it when you go…or else!
Up next…PORTLAND!
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