Good Eats in Seattle

When I go to new places,I love to try out new restaurants and foods. In Seattle, I had fun going out to eat with my friends and I annoyingly paused to take pictures of my food before we chowed down.  If you're like me, you like seeing what other people eat, if you're not...well, carry on and pretend this never happened.

This is the 'Fried Chicken Sammy' from Skillet Counter, with "fennel seed crust, pickled and charred jalapeño aioli, kale, potato roll "and fries.

It was so good, except I was surprised the chicken was thigh pieces and not a breast.  I didn't eat half of the chicken because it was dark meat and there were some fatty bits. I wish the menu had indicated this, because I am really picky about meat.  I ate the white meat pieces, though, and those were delicious!

We spent an afternoon at Pike Place Market, and had a lat lunch at the Copacabana. This meal was like amazing comfort food to me, it was chicken breast with onions and peppers over rice.  I had a glass of sangria with it, and we people-watched while eating.  The atmosphere was amazing, even though it was hot that day and we were sitting outside.

 That night, we came home and drank Framboise, a really delicious 'lambic' that tastes like bubbly raspberry wine.  Then, around 11, we ordered Chinese food to be delivered and like magic, we were eating chicken & broccoli and rice, drinking Framboise and watching The Departed. Late night delivery doesn't exist in my hometown, so I was totally star-struck with it.  I'm easily amused, I tell you.

The Sunday we were there, I met up with my cousin, Jen, who has lived in Seattle for 17 years, and who I don't get to see often (um, at all).  She and her husband, Chris, took me to Luna Park Cafe in West Seattle for brunch.  Jen and I both ordered the Elvis waffle, which came to us in  DIY form.  It was amazing, especially with the bacon peeking out underneath the waffle.  Oh, and plenty of coffee!

We walked around West Seattle, shopping for vintage things in antique stores and we also stopped by a really cool record store, Easy Street Records, where I bought two used CD's for under 10 bucks.

We then went to Cupcake Royale, which was actually the first cupcake shop I had ever been in.   I had the strawberry shortcake cupcake and it was so moist and delicious.  So much yum!

Jen had the raspberry lemonade cupcake and I was so happy with the picture I happened to get of it.  I had a bite of this one, too, and it was tart and delicious!

On our last night, we went to The Lookout for a drink and dinner.  Erika, my friend and hostess is an always vegetarian/usually vegan and I shared two little dishes.  One was the baked brie with almonds, balsamic vinegar, red peppers and Kalamata olives.  I ate almost all of this, it was so good!

We also shared the quinoa nuggets, which was my introduction to quinoa.  They were really tasty and filling and tasted almost like fish nuggets with the tartar sauce that was served with them.

As we were leaving town, we stopped at one last Starbucks (a lot of coffee was consumed on this trip!) for lunch.  I tried something new for me, the mozzarella and pesto panini, which was so delicious!  I would definitely get this again when I'm in a hurry. My coffee drink right now is always a large iced skinny vanilla latte (or an iced caramel machiatto with non fat milk and half caramel.)  I love coffee!

All these pictures and reminiscing about the food just made me so hungry. I also ate a lot of fresh fruit, yogurt and turkey sandwiches while I was there.  Somehow, I lost weight on the vacation...I think from all of the walking and really, I didn't make horrible choices and we usually ate out only one meal a day. It was such a fun and yummy trip!