The second day of our vacation was almost entirely devoted to food. We started with breakfast at BOKA Kitchen. I found that this restaurant uses a lot of local and organic products so we decided to try them out. Omelets seemed to be the perfect Sunday morning breakfast and boy were they good! Mine had a mix of spinach, chicken sausage & Gruyere cheese! Dave's was called the Lumberjack, with chicken sausage cheese and country gravy over the top. We shared some roasted Yukon Gold potatoes. I also really enjoyed my morning milk tea with Organic Stash English Breakfast tea.
After a relaxing in the hotel's rooftop hot tub, we ventured back downtown to meet up with our Seattle Food Tour group! If you're going to Seattle, we highly recommend this tour group for food tours of Pikes Place Market. We loved the tour and we loved our guide, Penny! We met at Vital Tea Leaf in the south end of the market. After sampling some teas we headed to DeLaurenti's Specialty Food & Wine and got to try some great cheese and a salami created by Mario Batali especially for DeLaurenti's. Both were fantastic!
Next was some yummy mini donuts from a little stand in the main section of the market...we had to come back and get a 1/2 dozen of these hot, sugary, little guys. We also sampled some dried fruit from a stand that does a lot of different dried fruits like cantaloupe and honey crisp apples. Penny took us to see the "gum wall," which was, in a word, disgusting.
All was made right with a trip to Bottega Italiana for some beautiful gelato. I've never had gelato in Italy, but I'm guessing this stuff is close. I tried the pumpkin gelato, while David had pineapple. Both were delish!
Next was The Crumpet Shop, where we had homemade English crumpets with butter and honey. This was the one place I had been to before, but not actually tried one of their crumpets...wonderful!
The next stop was very unique. A Filipino family runs a small lunch stand and shop in one of the corridors of the market. Penny knows the family quite well (it's an all woman show) and asked what she had cooking for the employees that we could try. It was a very basic fish and rice soup, but it was amazing! I really wanted to go back for more!
A stop for some honey crisp apples and smoked salmon came next, followed by our favorite food of the tour...Clam chowder! Pike Place Chowder has award winning clam chowder, as well as other seafood soups and chowders. We have never had clam chowder that was that good, but this was fantastic!
Our last stop was the Steelhead Diner, which had some good homemade ginger beer and we sampled some cheese with a kumquat compote. This was our least favorite, but we were still on a food high, so we didn't mind. We had to got back for more chowder and also tried a crab roll. I still have dreams about that chowder. :)
Quite food and happy, we made our way back to the airport to get a rental car, so we could head down to Oregon. It was about a three hour drive to Astoria, Oregon and we were only hungry again at about 9:30 at night. Since it was so late on a Sunday, we settled for pizza and relaxed in our room. Not sure on the calorie-count for the day, but we try not to think about it. :)
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