I have heard one too many things about this place. It’s always on the list for best donuts in the country. Dumpling Man doesn’t understand why a donut could be all that special. To him, a donut is just a donut. I would probably agree, seeing as that Yum Yum donuts back in LA pretty…
Category: Seattle
Crush
Dumpling Man can be the nicest sweetest dumpling man. Instead of a present for my birthday this year, he treated me to multiple delicious meals. I celebrated the beginning of a new decade by stuffing my face one morsel at a time. Our Seattle trip goals were 2 fold, celebrate my birthday and eat delicious…
Molly Moon’s Ice Cream
I’m on a total “artisinal” ice cream binge. Haagen Daaz? Baskin Robbins? Ben & Jerry’s? No gracias. Hand scooped, hand made, local ingredients, small batches? I’ll have a double scoop please! I’ve been quite pleased with the selection of artisinal ice cream in Portland, so I was on a mission to see what Seattle had…
Paseo
Drop everything that you’re doing RIGHT NOW and book a trip to Seattle. You’ll totally thank me when you get there, there being Paseo, a Cuban sandwich joint with 2 locations in Seattle. Now, Paseo happens to be pretty famous. I’ve seen it featured on multiple food and travel shows. As well all know, these…
Din Tai Fung
Portland is a nice place to live. The people are nice. There’s not much traffic. Most everything you want is here sans tax (there’s a Target and/or Trader Joe’s every which way you turn!). The very obvious thing it is lacking is great Asian food, especially good dumplings. Lucky for us, the world famous Din Tai…
Maneki
Maneki is Seattle’s oldest Japanese restaurant at over 100 years old. Hard to believe a restaurant could be that old huh? The restaurant is typical for a lot of Japanese restaurants in my experience, small with limited seats. This place goes so far as to deny anybody without reservations a chance to dine. The first…
Lola
So in Seattle, Tom Douglas is King. You may ask why? Well when you own 6 restaurants and 1 bakery that garners outstanding reviews and is wildly loved by the masses, then you can be king too. Oh, when you stick all those restaurants within a 1 mile radius of each other, that just shows…
Restaurant Zoe
So for our first dinner in Seattle, we decided to go with Restaurant Zoë. This was Dumpling Man’s choice, and what a nice choice it was. I wouldn’t go so far as to say it beats a place like Providence or comes anywhere near it, but it definitely holds its own. Fresh ingredients, simple but…
Sweet Iron Waffles
I used Yelp for the majority of my Seattle eats for this trip, but I also turned to other bloggers. Namely, The Gastronomer, is a bit of a world traveler and she does a great job documenting all her eats throughout her travels. Sweet Iron Waffles happened to be the subject of one of her…
I Want Mee Sum Pastry!
Get it?? I usually don’t get lame or corny on the blog, but I could not resist with that title. Today I just saw a Chinese restaurant called Hung Far Low. I was cracking up. Sometimes you wonder if the naming is a deliberate process. Dumpling Man says Mee Sum doesn’t mean anything in Chinese,…
Pike Place Chowder
If you think about Seattle, 2 things probably come to mind: endless rain and GREAT food. When we decided to make a weekend trip to Seattle, I immediately started looking up places to eat. What is good travel without good food? That’s my philosophy anyways. I’ll probably never visit a place for the sole reason…
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