We started the meet up at the Market Theater, with the famous Gum Wall. Yes it's quite disguising.. it started out as a mindless act that has turned into a tourist attraction. They cleaned off this wall several times and people just keep sticking gums back on the wall, so they decided to keep it as is.
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| meeting point - market theater |
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| outside the theater |
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| Our tour guide today, CJ. |
1st stop is Daily Dozen Doughnuts - these bite sized donuts are hot and fresh right of the fryer. Good way to start the day. After tour we went back to get a dozen, which include maple-bacon flavor one which were to die for!
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Pike Place Market
93 Pike St
Seattle, WA 98101
Neighborhood: Downtown
93 Pike St
Seattle, WA 98101
Neighborhood: Downtown
2nd stop - MarketSpice - we sampled a hot tea here that I forgot to take a picture. It was really good and we sampled their apple wood spice rub, which was very delicious.
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Categories: Food Coffee & Tea Food Specialty Food Herbs & Spices Coffee & Tea, Herbs & Spices
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85a Pike St(between Western Ave & Post Aly)
Seattle, WA 98101
Neighborhood: Downtown (206) 622-6340
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| Very gloomy day |
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| our group sampling the teas. |
3rd stop - Pike Place Fish - we sampled three kinds of salmon here. A regular smoked salmon, garlic pepper smoked salmon and salmon jerky. I am not a salmon person at all and these were very tasty! My favorite was the regular smoked salmon. They even demonstrated their infamous fish-throwing.
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86 Pike Pl
(between Post Aly & Western Ave)
Seattle, WA 98101
Neighborhood: Downtown (206) 682-7181
(between Post Aly & Western Ave)
Seattle, WA 98101
Neighborhood: Downtown (206) 682-7181
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| The smoked salmon we sampled. Quite expensive though. |
4th Stop - Frank's Quality Produce - we sampled opal apples and Satsuma oranges.
1508 Pike Pl
(at Post Aly)
Seattle, WA 98101
Neighborhood: Downtown (206) 624-5666
(at Post Aly)
Seattle, WA 98101
Neighborhood: Downtown (206) 624-5666
5th Stop - Pike Place Chowder - this is the whole reason we came to Pike Market. These are the best clam chowder in the world! Well, maybe not the world but we've had a good amount of clam chowders and this by far, is the best one we've had. This place along is good enough reason for us to move to Seattle. Yes, IT IS that good!
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Categories: Restaurants Seafood Restaurants American (Traditional) Restaurants Soup Seafood, American (Traditional), Soup
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1530 Post AlySte 11
(between Pike Pl & Pine St)
Seattle, WA 98101
Neighborhood: Downtown (206) 267-2537
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| Regular clam chowder and a seafood bisque. Both were delicious. |
6th Stop - Chukar Cherries - everything is made from cherries here that are grown locally in Washingont State. We sampled a cherry salsa, and a variety of chocolate coated cherries.
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1529 Pike Pl
(at Post Aly)
Seattle, WA 98101
Neighborhood: Downtown (206) 623-8043
(at Post Aly)
Seattle, WA 98101
Neighborhood: Downtown (206) 623-8043
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| The ladies here are very generous when it comes to samples. |
7th Stop - Beecher's Handmade Cheese - we sampled cheese & crackers and a mac n cheese here (it's their number one seller and Oprah even named this as her favorite mac n cheese!)
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1600 Pike Pl
(between Post Aly & Pine St)
Seattle, WA 98101
Neighborhood: Downtown (206) 956-1964
(between Post Aly & Pine St)
Seattle, WA 98101
Neighborhood: Downtown (206) 956-1964
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| Fresh cheese being made in front of your eyes |
8th Stop - Piroshky-Piroshky - this is a Russian bakery. We sampled a sweet (apple & cinnamon) and a savory (beef and cheese), I prefer the savory one.
Categories: Food Bakeries Restaurants Russian Bakeries, Russian [Edit]
1908 Pike Pl
(between Western Ave & Virginia St)
Seattle, WA 98101
Neighborhood: Downtown (206) 441-6068
9th and final stop - Etta's Seafood Restaurant - owned by a local celebrity chef Tom Douglas. We sampled crab cakes here which was very good but a bit greasy.
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2020 Western Ave
(between Virginia St & Pike Pl)
Seattle, WA 98121
Neighborhood: Downtown (206) 443-6000
This is the end of our Pike Place Market Tour. We got lucky because at the end of our last stop it started pouring outside. We waited a few minutes until the rain got manageable and walked back to the market to eat some more food. I was almost full at this point but we wanted to go back to get the chowder and couple more things we saw along the tour.
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| I got the chicken corn chowder and scallop chowder. I have to stay, the original clam chowder is still the best. |
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| At the beginning of the tour we saw this "Saffron Spice" next to the donut place, we wanted to go back and try their food as well. |
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| Chicken tikka masala and curry meatballs with saffron rice - this was sooooo good!!! I don't have much experience with Indian food because I was always to scared to try, this definitely converted me to an Indian food lover! It was spicy though, I got one of their homemade lemonades to wash everything down. It was delicious as well. |
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| beef samosas with tamarind sauce |
This tour was very fun, and I definitely recommend this for anyone visiting Seattle to take this tour. In this 2 hour tour, they tell you the history of the market and at every shop you stopped at. You get to sample at the top vendors and a good variety of great food. There were placed we wanted to go back and get more items but we just don't have the room in our stomach. (i.e. Fran's chocolates, the place that started the salted caramel trend today, and one of President Obama's favorite chocolates). Definitely coming back next time!
After all that food we definitely needed to walk off those calories, I had planned for us to visit the EMP Museum in by the Space Needle. This is a museum of music, sci-fi, and pop-culture. There was a display dedicated to Nirvana, Jimmy Hendrix, a Guitar Gallery, Icons of Science Fiction and Horror Film, a found lab for everyone to explore and play with all kinds of musical gear and audio technology. Kaelan and I played DJ for the first time. It was a small museum but fun nevertheless if you are a music and sci-fi fan like we are.
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325 5th Ave N
(between Thomas St & Harrison St)
Seattle, WA 98109
Neighborhood: Lower Queen Anne (206) 770-2700
(between Thomas St & Harrison St)
Seattle, WA 98109
Neighborhood: Lower Queen Anne (206) 770-2700
Our hotel is next to the Westlake center, where the monorail is and will take you directly to Seattle Center where Space Needle and EMP Museum is located.
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| very impressive sculpture made of guitars. |
