Restaurants in Washington State
Whenever we visit Seattle, we always have the tendency to eat lunch late because we’d always have a big breakfast. We had a late lunch at Cafe Presse this time knowing most items here are small and we won’t be overly stuffed by dinner time.
A couple weekends ago we stopped by 8 oz Burger Bar‘s happy hour to get some drinks and snacks. The happy hour has a $2, $4 $6, $8 menu. Everything from $2 garlic fries, rainer beer, to $8 burger & fries combo.
We’ve been to quite a few of the Tom Douglas restaurants in Seattle over the past couple years, and have loved each one of them. This time we needed a place to eat for brunch, and Dahlia Lounge was surprisingly available.
Another weekend, another beer sampler. We were in Seattle this past weekend visiting our friend, and McMenamins is right across the street.
This week’s Bellingham adventure brought us to La Fiamma Wood Fire Pizza in downtown Beillingham. A popular pizza joint, with nice crispy wood oven pizzas.
Another weekend, another dinner in Bellingham. I was craving pasta, so we decided on trying D’Anna Cafe Italiano. When we got there, it was quite busy, and we had to wait for about an hour to be seated. It smelled awesome in there though, so we had to stay and wait it out.
Boundary Bay Brewery & Bistro is really in downtown Bellingham, and is actually very family oriented and very popular. We had to wait for about 30 minutes at 6 PM on a Friday to get seated. They do have those pagers to let you know when your table is ready, but I think they said it only has a 1 block radius. After sampling tons of beer in Europe, we were excited to see that they had a beer sampler here.
I never knew Bellingham had an actually downtown area until we stopped by Harris Avenue Cafe for breakfast on our way down to Portland. This area has a few restaurants, including Katie’s cupcakes.
Whenever we are in Seattle visiting our friend, we always try to put Serious Pie on our list of places to eat. It’s been a few years, and we’ve yet to go because it’s always busy. We went during happy hour the day before going to Portland at around 3PM. They offered specials such as half size pizzas for just $6 each. They also had some other appetizers, so we ended up ordering one of everything on the food side.
Elysian Brewing Co. is a brewery/pub in the Capitol Hill area of Seattle. Strangely enough, I had purchased a few of their bottles from a small boutique wine shop in Bellingham just hours before. We came to celebrate a friend’s belated birthday and new job.
On our way to Portland, we had breakfast at Harris Avenue Grill in downtown Bellingham. I’ve never been in this area, so after our meal, we walked around a bit to explore and see what was there. The night before, we had dinner at Espana, and Beipas mentioned that she wanted cupcakes. We didn’t end up going though. Luckily, as we walked around, we saw Katie’s Cupcakes.
