seattle eating and drinking: photos
(As promised to sepoy, after this. Links and recommendations to follow in a separate post.)
Featuring: latte from Cafe Allegro, phở tai and cream puff from Than Brothers, radishes from a farmers' market, cappuccino from Victrola Coffee, salsas, guacamole, and tacos de bagre from Agua Verde, Dick's Deluxe and fries from Dick's Drive-In, asparagus at the market, rose and lavender gelatos in Fremont, salmon, shrimp, and halibut with fries and clam chowder from Ivar's Fish Bar, strawberries and scallions at the market, pink Kashmiri chai from Kuan Yin Teahouse, mussaman curry, noodles, and vegetable takeout from Sawatdy's, rainier cherries at market, and tuna sashimi and mixed rolls at Dragonfish, with a pint of Alaskan Amber. And both of my little sisters (or at least, their hands.)
Featuring: latte from Cafe Allegro, phở tai and cream puff from Than Brothers, radishes from a farmers' market, cappuccino from Victrola Coffee, salsas, guacamole, and tacos de bagre from Agua Verde, Dick's Deluxe and fries from Dick's Drive-In, asparagus at the market, rose and lavender gelatos in Fremont, salmon, shrimp, and halibut with fries and clam chowder from Ivar's Fish Bar, strawberries and scallions at the market, pink Kashmiri chai from Kuan Yin Teahouse, mussaman curry, noodles, and vegetable takeout from Sawatdy's, rainier cherries at market, and tuna sashimi and mixed rolls at Dragonfish, with a pint of Alaskan Amber. And both of my little sisters (or at least, their hands.)
posted by kitabet at 7:51 PM
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the photos and recommendations are great! unfortunately, i just returned from LA and Seattle yesterday so i can't put the recommendations to use. my friends threw a party for me in shilshole, and i was stunned (as i always am) by the amazing sunset there. good god! and throughout the weekend, i was experiencing lots of nostalgia as i went to some spots i'd always loved (zoka's by greenlake, volunteer park, bikerides across the U bridge) and some new spots (a great brunch spot called crave in the CD). the wedding was in black diamond, on a lake that was guarded tightly by ranier. it was a really special time.
so much of seattle has changed since i left there in 2001 (so many more condos and apartments instead of houses, especially in ballard), but a lot of good elements remain the same (friendly people, great cycling, gorgeous area).
hello Ganesh, sorry to have not posted the recs before your trip (it has been a hellacious few weeks.) But it sounds like you were well-guided by friends and memories. The light--sunset or otherwise--just catches me every time I go home. Somehow it doesn't alter, even as the rest of the city changes around us (now my sister lives in one of those apartments sprouting up in Ballard).
Zoka is named in the longer list I'm putting up tomorrow--oh the many hours spent there from 1998-2000! If you ever witnessed a study group of JSIS undergrads take over the long wooden table and talk avidly about Silk Road trade routes, Ottoman governance, cotton mills in Lancashire, Marx and Weber and Edward Said....
Good lord...I'm hungry now.
Sigh, I have all these photos of the most amazing foods I ate in Bangkok during the span of a crazy weekend but NO TIME to even upload them. GAH.
And I'm going to go crazy (again!) eating in Turkey :D (Leaving tomorrow - yay!). And, I have my camera this time so I won't have to make do with a borrowed camera...
Also - pretty nail paint!
MMM, come back again soon so we can have another Seattle-wide food binge, big sister! (And I will have you know that my apartment in Ballard was built in the 70's.....its not one of the new monstrosities!)
elizabeth, we really had to have known each other! between late '98 and '01 (before i came to NYC), i was in zoka's a lot (busily writing poetry). i was the only south asian guy i ever saw there (often the only south asian guy i saw out of the u-district in all of seattle!). i was friends with the baristas (some of whom were in my ultimate/soccer circle), and even dated two women i had met there. that poor honey bear couldn't compete when zoka's started!
it was scary when i stopped by zoka's two years ago and saw a few of the same folks that were there back in 2000: the somewhat buff goateed guy who read castenada and scribbled notes in his books; the bald and bespecled business school grad (a friend of a friend) who turned zokas into his office. luckily, when i walked in briefly last sunday, they were gone. maybe they were taking the day off? ;-)
Nice photoz! Lovely food. I think we should collectively start a new site (with desiknitter in pune and szelerem in turkey?) dedicated just to photos of yummy foods.
Sz, Bangkok photos PLEASE. Except then I'll cry, because there's no Thai food anywhere near that good to be had here. While I miss Turkish food terribly (long msg re: Istanbul en route, btw) I don't think I've ever eaten so well anywhere else as I did in Thailand.
Emmy: apologies for malinging yr apt unfairly. Next time we have to go to Tilth!
Ganesh: I'm pretty sure we never "met", but I'm also pretty sure we've been in the same room...probably more than once. Was one of those Zoka-met women the same one who was my mentor's grad student? ;) Also, speaking of good coffeeshops, what the hell happened to Mule? I had hoped it was just closed temporarily, but as the months have gone by, my hope of basically spending grad school at one of their tables has been dashed. Sigh.
sepoy: an international food pr0n flickr group, at the very least, is called for. but if you build a blog, I'm there.
still awaiting long İstanbul message :) - was there yesterday evening and good lord it was the most beautiful sunset and i got some lovely pictures...
Am in Antalya now (terribly hot and sticky), but will be back ın İstanbul thıs sunday/monday for the week....
Also, I totally, totally support thıs food porn blog idea...
Ok, kids, spread the word...
http://www.flickr.com/groups/780610@N25/
yes, indeed, one of them was your mentor's grad students! and the other was a new age woman who saw me writing in marathi, asked if it was sanskrit, and then started telling me about the sanskrit words she'd learned in a yoga class.
as for mule, i'm often in pacific standard, and one of the bartenders there used to be a barista at mule. he once told me that the cherry tree was going to buy mule and run it, but so far that hasn't happened. ugh...i really loved mule (the coffee, the tables, the large window), and my writing took a big hit when it closed it's doors. i just tried writing at gorilla, but it's not the same experience.
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