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The Foods You Ate
Altima NEO
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So did anyone get some unique or interesting, or just generally damned good food while in, or traveling to Seattle?
This was my first time driving to Seattle, and halfway on our drive back home, we stopped by this restaurant in Lacey, WA called "The Mayan" that just had amazing Mexican food. Huge servings, and everything was damned tasty!
This was my first time driving to Seattle, and halfway on our drive back home, we stopped by this restaurant in Lacey, WA called "The Mayan" that just had amazing Mexican food. Huge servings, and everything was damned tasty!
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I also thoroughly enjoyed the booth behind the Rockband stage on Exhibit floor. I had fruit salad everyday, and their sandwiches were awesome-o.
You can hardly tell the hot dogs aren't real and I had the Dog From Impanima, complete with a bunch of delicious rice, black beans, green onion, and sliced avacado. Made for a nice last bite before heading the airport.
Also, the shepard's pie at Elephant and Castle in the Red Lion kicks ass, they have Fuller's ESB as well, so I was a happy guy on Saturday night.
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Thursday, Friday, AND Saturday nights my friends and I ordered pizza from Milano, because it's the best goddamned pizza we've ever had. I mean look at this: Smoked salmon, red onions, capers, ricotta, fresh tomatoes, and mozzarella over creamy garlic sauce
On Sunday night, a large group from the West Coast Train Trip and Cross Country Supertrip went to the Taphouse for dinner, about as far away from the Sheraton as the convention center is. This place is pretty pricey (our table of about 15 totaled 640.62, after all the drinks, tax, and gratuity. This receipt is going up on my fucking wall) but it's quite literally the best beer I've ever had and the seafood linguini I had was heavenly. They have these beer samplers for $9.50 where you can either pick a theme or pick any 4 of their 120 beers and you get like a half-glass of each, and over half the people at the table ordered one. We were all passing them around, so everybody got to try a total of like 20 different kinds. This place was so good that the whole table universally agreed that we're going to try to organize an official post-PAX dinner next year a few months in advance and try to reserve a lot more space.
Mama's FTW. Did you have the Elvis Burrito?
I swear, in the time between now & the next PAX, I'm going to put together a PDF with a listing of all the great restaurants that are around the convention with directions, menus, etc...
It's sad that so many people didn't know about some of the awesome places to grab grub nearby.
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Saturday, after a diabolical case of food poisoning from questionable pizza the night before, a friend took me to Johnny Rockets, a burger joint up at the top level of Pacific Place. Good prices, amazing shakes and burgers. According to a friend who was a few tables away, the chili fries are also to die for.
And Sunday, we hit up the Cheesecake Factory for brunch, because the Wil Wheaton panel was full. I know people get upset about the waits and lines, and sometimes the prices, but I had budgeted for one single meal there, and I thoroughly enjoyed both the quality of the food and the service. I also only waited about 15 minutes, despite the crowd of people in there.
Also, the best place we went to imo was Johnny Rocket's in Pacific Place. We had the best waitress we could ask for, Rob (woodoosticka) told her to make a random malt, and she was excited as all hell to do it, and she made like two more for free, so we gave her an epic tip. We got a bunch of that on film too, expect to see it eventually.
We also hit up the new restaurant in the Sheraton and had an awesome waiter, so props to them as well.
We asked the Concierge in the Sheraton for suggestions on where to go that wasn't necessarily nearby. She sent us down to Belltown and we just walked along 2nd ave looking for restaurants. Found Mama's and all decided Mexican would be good, definitely glad we stopped there, it was yum. I didn't have the Elvis Burrito, I had a Noscaso or something...so much food.
My gf and I went for lunch at Jonny Rocket's on Monday, and it was awesome. The burger was good and my Mocha Shake was yum in a glass. The waitress was cool too, a bunch of Enforcers came in at the same time and they were joking/laughing with her. She called me "sweetheart" and my gf was like "that had better be flavour text for the restaurant!" :P
I have to admit, I didn't know who he was at first (Although I knew I recognized him from somewhere), until I walked passed his booth upstairs and was like "holy shit, that's who he is"!
Oh we also ate at Subway. Foot longs in Canada are like 10 bucks, arg!
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That was Honey Court, and it was indeed awesome. I thought our trip to Nijo Sushi was pretty good too.
Also, they have very good real (meat) hot dogs at Stoney's, the pinball/retro arcade somewhere in Seattle. We walked there, took about 20 minutes. Not far at all. Good pinball.
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You know what else... the Mocha they make at that coffee shop in the front of the convention center was FANTASTIC! i was totally pleased.
I'm gonna carefully read every entry on this thread though and make notes so I can try some of these places.
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Breakfast at Mecca (was very tasty)
Lunch at Sound View Cafe (excellent clam chowder)
Dinner at the Seattle Public Library (was free )
SATURDAY
Breakfast at Pikes Place Bar & Grill (unlimited Belgian Waffles 4tw)
Lunch at a bagel place (forgot the name, but quite tasty)
Dinner at a hole in the wall Thai place
SUNDAY
Breakfast at a crepe shop near the laundromat (OMFG, delicous)
Lunch at the convention center
Dinner at Seastar Restaurant and Raw Bar in Bellevue (Best swordfish imaginable)
(Wants a Taco Del Mar near him in Michigan)
Friday:
Fredwich
Saturday:
Teriyaki chicken sandwhich on ciabatta
Avacado tomato and hummus sandwhich on crossiant
Sunday:
Fredwhich (chicken Provolone and lettuce and tomato on a ciabatta)
Fysha pizza (pesto, provolone, and tomoto slices on pita bread)
I know I should have stayed all night on Sunday but I was too damn tired.
Friday we did Pike's for breakfast. Fresh peaches, mini-doughnuts, and coffee was all we needed. And hey, it's 11, that's early enough for Beechers Mac 'n Cheese, right? Cookies and caramels were fine for lunch, and for dinner we went to a great Thai place in Fremont (I forget the name).
Saturday the only notable eat-out was dinner, and it was outstanding - we hit up Brouwers in Fremont, which lived up to our expectations and then some. Our waitress recommended beers that everyone enjoyed, and the food was delicious: frites were just perfect, and everything else was great. The only thing I didn't love was the dessert; the chocolate cake was too crumbly and the creme brulee had a bit too thick of a caramelized crust. But we stopped next door at Theo for some amazing confections, so that took care of my sweet tooth.
Sunday we went to Pike's again for crepes. Really really good. I'd recommend the sweet over the savory, but they were both excellent. It's also a treat to watch the ladies make crepes and cut vegetables and fruit right in front of you. Again, the wait wasn't a bother.
Thanks for the recommendations on the FancyPants thread, we found some great places because of it. Also got to introduce our Seattle friend to Brouwers. Looking forward to next year!
Friday morning we just had mcdonalds (quick and easy.. it worked)
Friday night we ate at the Daily Grill at The Sheraton
Saturday morning was Daily Grill for breakfast
Saturday afternoon was pizza
Saturday night was "Mexico" at the Pacific Place mall - where we ate 2 tables away from Wil Wheaton
Sunday we had lunch at Vons Grand City Cafe - which was... OK.. it served it's purpose but I don't think I'd go back.
Then we went home
Other then that, pizza friday (From that pizza place on the first floor, not bad but the crust was all but flavorless), and sunday night (Can't remember the pizzeria we got it delivered from, but it was WAY better) and all the food I made from home prior.
5 pound bag of Sour Patch Kids (ok, so I only at half of it!), 5 cans of NOS, 6 granola bars, a cookie I baked, and didn't even touch the twizzlers I brought!
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Twicly dined at the Cheesecake Factory across from PAX, VIP Party food via Cryptic Studios & ArenaNet, Breakfast via McDonalds & Burger King, and what road trip would not be complete without the 2am mad dash to Taco Bell?
And for all fairness, I did skip a lot of meals due to having WAYYYYYYYYY TOO MUCH FUN!!!!
excellent beer and food
pulled porkl nachos FTW!
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Saturday was Cheesecake factory, which generated enough leftovers to snack on for late night saturday/morning sunday.
Sunday we hit Taco del Mar, which was pretty good for a chain burrito place. After the con we went to a Pizza Place by the space needle with some guys we met on the train up, mainly just to see the pointy hunk of metal. Pizza was meh(bias note: born and raised in NYC), but we got to hang out and chat in the shadow of the landmark which was a good time.
Also, there was a little Turkish deli called Turkish Delight. My wife and I shared the chicken doner kebab wrap - it was quite delicious.
We also had some decent Indian food, and a surprisingly good pizza delivered to our room...but I can't remember either place's name.
Glad you liked the Pre-PAX spread. We really tried to deliver the most value that we could, and it's no secret that my wife and I are food snobs of a sort. Our caterer was so pleasant, capable and accommodating that I would feel bad not using her again.
As much as I love kebabs, I think I'd have a problem eating anything named Doner.
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