And the apple icebox cake.įor great food in a more quirky setting, head to the Collections Cafe next to the Space Needle. On a Tuesday night it’s heaving but the ‘servers’ (not waiters or waitresses, this is America) are helpful and knowledgeable, explaining some of the weird and wonderful ingredients on the menu. The restaurant has a rustic feel with a timber roof above the booths and wild flowers dotted about. Talking of sustainable eating, Local 360 on 1 st Avenue sources the majority of its food within a 360 mile radius of the city. The signature martini laced with Blue Curacao and Malibu arrives smoking on dry ice. But under executive chef Jeff Maxfield’s watchful eye, the food is sourced locally, cooked perfectly, and out from the kitchen come innovative dishes such as duck with amaretto cake and cherries and comforting ones too like ham and pea soup with potato bread. Revolving eateries can be overpriced and touristy. Whizz 500 feet up to Sky City, the revolving restaurant on top of the Space Needle. I chose the You Lucky Bitch with Cuban roast pork, grilled onion, Swiss cheese, fried egg and ‘bitchy sauce’.įor more upmarket dining, Seattle doesn’t disappoint. This brilliantly-named cafe dishes up equally brilliantly-named biscuits crammed full of fatty fillings like cheese, meat, and er more cheese and meat. Think a muffin or scone-like biscuit (an American ‘biscuit’) rather than a Custard Cream.
And if you haven’t already overdosed on dairy from Beechers and Ellanos, visit the Pike Place Market Creamery for a salted caramel and peanut, or Guinness, ice-cream.ĭown the road from the market, you can tuck into a sandwich at the grunge-y Biscuit Bitch (this is the city where Nirvana was born, and Kurt Cobain died, after all). If you have a hankering for cheap Mexican, grab a couple of $2 tacos loaded with pork and pineapple, or spicy beef, from Los Agaves Market. Peer into the cheese-making kitchen, and then order what it calls ‘World’s Best Mac & Cheese’. Case in point: Beecher’s Handmade Cheese. The fun of the market is that not only can you enjoy free samples – make sure you wander past Ellanos Real Greek Yogurt, which opened last summer – and buy tasty treats but you can watch the food being made too. The indecisive can order a sampler of four cups of chowder for 12 bucks. You can try clam chowder at Pike Place Chowder – a choice of no less than eight different types. Teeming with tourists, but not to be missed. This bustling public market on the waterfront is packed full of cafes, bars, boutiques, and market stalls selling everything from flowers and fish to dim sum and paintings. Then order a savoury (think pesto or Marmite) or a sweet (peanut butter, almond butter, cream cheese, mmm.) and sit back and enjoy the hot thick wedge with a cup of tea. Look through a window and watch them lovingly make the crumpets onsite.
If you’re feeling homesick, pop into the Crumpet Shop, in the legendary Pike Place Market. But boy do they know how to do crumpets, clam chowder, chicken steak, coffee, cheese, and hundreds of other items that don’t necessarily begin with the letter C. Not so much is said about the culinary treats in the Emerald City though.
Gastronaughts will know that in this neck of the woods, Portland, in neighbouring Oregon, has a terrific food scene. With Canada to the north, California below, sandwiched between the Pacific and endless mountain ranges, the result is a diverse, vibrant city with plenty to offer locals and tourists alike. It’s also home to some huge employers: Boeing, Starbucks, Microsoft and Amazon. It’s a perfect monologue from start to finish, and although director Nora Ephron co-wrote most of it (and the rest of the movie) with her sister Delia Ephron, Wilson told Entertainment Weekly that she ad-libbed one part at the very end.What do you think of when you think of Seattle? That big futuristic tower that looks like a UFO? Somewhere near Canada? Being sleepless in? Perhaps, if you know the west coast a bit – a liberal, sustainable city? And top marks if you know its nickname is the Emerald City. As Suzy tries to explain the plot of the 1957 romance to her brother and her husband, she’s moved to tears just thinking about it. When Suzy and her husband Greg (Victor Garber) visit Sam in Seattle, Suzy finds out that Annie (Meg Ryan) wants to meet Sam at the top of the Empire State Building, just like Deborah Kerr’s and Cary Grant’s characters planned to do in An Affair to Remember. Wilson appeared in the 1993 film as Suzy, the sister of Sam Baldwin (Tom Hanks). But if we had to choose our top five moments from the classic rom-com, they would probably include a line that one of the movie’s stars, Rita Wilson, just revealed wasn’t originally part of the script. It would be difficult to pick our all-time favorite scene from Sleepless in Seattle, which marks its 25th anniversary today, June 25.
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