Saturday, November 22, 2008


Seattle WA
(I'm trying to catch up on some of my posts, forgive me!!)

Andaluca Restaurant (in Mayflower Park Hotel)
I love NY deli, Pike Place Market
Noodles, Mall

Breakfast was at the most convenient place this morning, at the hotel restaurant. Very nice ambiance, carved wood booths, quiet place. I ordered a mushroom omelet with roasted potatoes. WOW! When I say mushroom omelet, it was loaded with very flavorful mushrooms. The potatoes were cooked PERFECTLY, nice and crispy outside, soft inside. A little sour cream would have made it perfect, but unfortunately they did not have any. The prices for the food were reasonable but my breakfast partner ordered a glass of orange juice for $4.75!!!!

We are extremely lucky to have our office near the famed Pike’s Place Market, right on the water. They are famous for their fresh fish market where the employees toss the fish to each other with some chanting and entertainment. We wandered around a little during our lunch break before deciding we needed to find something to eat. We found a little deli place and I ordered a heaping pastrami sandwich on homemade marble rye bread with mustard, swiss cheese and a pickle and potato salad on the side. As she was making our sandwiches in her little 10x10 booth, I look at the sign. It was called ‘I Love NY Deli’. Oh my god, what were we thinking? We travel across the country (my partner is from Baltimore, MD) to Seattle and the first lunch we have is from a NY Style Deli??!?!? Not too smart. But the food was very good! I would have liked the bread to have been toasted but otherwise it was perfect.

I also got some freshly made caramel cashews and a baggie of mixed veggie chips from the market too. The veggie mix even has green beans!

After doing the typical sightseeing during our first night in the city (Seattle Space Needle is pretty cool!), we decided to grab a quick dinner at the mall that is right next to our hotel. I chose a made-to-order noodle dish called Singapore Noodles from a place called Noodles (picture above). It had really big noodles and everything else but the kitchen sink. Chicken, tofu, bean sprouts, carrots and more. Very flavorful and, towards the end, very spicy! It slowly built up in the spiciness until, when the mall security guard told us they were closing and we had to leave, at EIGHT O’CLOCK, it was so spicy I couldn’t eat anymore.

Seattle certainly isn’t NYC!

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