Events

• Highlander Festival (Scottish festival) September 9th & 10th, 2023 in Kelso 2 hours away https://www.kelso.gov/visitors/highlander-festival

Also activities for anytime:

• whirlyball
• orienteering
• birdwatching
• hot tub boat
• flying a drone
• mushroom foraging
• improv shows
• Eating the world's largest bowl of pho

Food

Bakery

• Bakery Nouveau - flakey croissants
• Fuji bakery - Japanese bakery with hojicha latte and masadas
• Sea wolf bakery - they have a bread making class too!

Coffee

• Hood famous cafe - Filipino cafe with flavors like ube and pandan in their coffee and desserts. I highly recommend this!
• Lighthouse roaster - known for their coffee
• Hello Em Viet coffee - Vietnamese cafe with egg coffee

Dessert

• Salt & Straw - olive oil and blue cheese + pear flavored ice cream - take it to eat at Cal Anderson park while dog watching
• Top pot donuts - a variety of affordable donuts
• Molly Moon ice cream - Yeti flavored ice cream

Restaurant

• Pho Bac Súp Shop - their beef short ribs pho has a giant bones to pick off
• ChuMinh Tofu - really good vegan Vietnamese food (can't really tell it's vegan) with buffet
• Carmelos tacos - amazing tacos and quesadillas, they don't have seats so take your food to Cal Anderson!
• Shiki - try out their geoduck. Authentic Japanese food
• Taurus Ox - Laotian food. Try the Thom Khem pork belly and lemongrass sausage
• Cafe Turko- Turkish food by the Fremont troll
• Far Eats Cafe - Indian food with dosa during lunch. Next to where Daphne lives.
• Kedai Makan - Malaysian restaurant
• Arashi ramen - never been but a Japanese friend recommended
• ChuMinh tofu - they have $25 vegan Vietnamese buffet or their regular menu. The lady there is sweet!
• MOTO pizza - Detroit style pizza, open Weds-Sat, can gather a line so go early
• Bongos - Caribbean sandwich where you get to dip your toes in the sand
• Oinnk - ramen with Chinese spin
• Fonda La Catrina - Mexican food if you make your way down to SODO
• Due' Cucina Italiana - truffle pasta

Popular restaurants

Note: might draw a bigger crowd so make sure to plan ahead.

• Biscuit bitch - biscuit in creamy gravy, has a Belltown and Pike place location, order ahead to pick up
• Bangrak market - Thai restaurant. Make reservations
• The Pink door- $$$ reserve ahead for seat with a view of the ferris wheel or burlesque

Bellevue

• Looking for chai - good Taiwanese food
• Hakka House Chinese cuisine - pass by if you're going to North Bend for biking.
• 85 deg C - Taiwanese cafe with baked good

Things to do

• Ballard locks - find their blue heron herds and check whether it's salmon season! It's fun to watch the water manually rise and fall to allow ships to pass through.
• Parkour class - free class at Seattle community college at 6pm on Tuesdays
• Archie McPhee - prank store for odd gifts
• Seattle Recreative - second hand arts and craft store for the one button you're missing
• Fremont Saturday farmers market - huge farmers market with a section for food and another for clothing
• Mox boarding house - dine while borrowing from their wide selection of board games
• National Nordic museum - never been but sounds fun
• Seattle Glass museum
• Bruce Lee grave
• Bainbridge island - take the ferry and try Mora iced creamery
• San Juan islands - Alpaca farm, Amaro sheep farm, lavendar farm, ride mopeds
• woodworking classes https://www.rockler.com/retail/stores/wa/seattle-store#mt
• https://www.pccmarkets.com/class/calendar/2023-07/?lo_all=1&sas=0
• Golden Gardens Beach