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food, parks, clubs, indie

food: - un bien in ballard, make caribbean sandwiches (#1 sandwich in washington, #2 in the states) if you do nothing else eat here - teriyaki, spots are a dime a dozen and are all pretty similar but it started here and is pretty delicious. j kenji lopez alt has been running around seattle eating at all of them recording shorts - bangrak market, sit-down thai in belltown. good eats good ambience good music (honorable mentions: pink door near pike place market if you like italian / seafood, dick’s drive in if you’re sloshed and need something to soak up booze for cheap - dick’s is a seattle institution) parks: weather’s already nice as hell so going to a park with a joint is a go to if you don’t wanna spend any money but wanna kill some time. my top two: - gasworks. retired gas plant turned into public art display on lake union. best park in seattle imo - cal anderson. it’s on the hill so it’s usually active, has a skate park if you wanna watch people do tricks, lot of people bring their dogs off leash, sometimes there’s volleyball or live music, just a real happening spot where a lot of people congregate in when it’s warm (honorable mentions: green lake park, kerry park, volunteer park, jefferson park) clubs: seattle nightlife is a toss-up sometimes (i tend to prefer events to venues personally) but kremwerk is reliable. i don’t drink so i don’t have a lot for you by way of bars but i’ve heard great things about comet tavern, still liquor largely depends on the night but can be cool, six arms is inoffensive, and sugar hill has a second floor bar where they spin a lot of music from the bay area indie: by far seattle’s bread and butter is just cool small businesses. a lot of ’em close earlier but my personal favorites: - bookstores: left bank books in pike place, elliot bay books on the hill - record stores: al’s records and games, neptune records in the udistrict. jive time in fremont, empire records in columbia city - vintage: late night market on the hill, fremont vintage mall in fremont (for volume; prices are gonna be out the ass bc both places are curators. still fun to pop in and look around) - coffee: station on beacon hill, coffeeholic in columbia city, espresso vivace, overcast coffee on the hill, armistice in roosevelt - barcades: jupiter bar in belltown, raygun lounge on the hill. a lot grungier / hometown feeling than say, a dave and busters or something comparable (a lot of these recs are in / accessible from the city center so they’re predominantly white neighborhoods - if you’ve got time to venture farther out i feel like columbia city is def worth the trip - show some love to geraldine’s, island soul, emma’s bbq.) (also, do tourist-y stuff - skip the space needle and go to columbia center instead, it’s cheaper and taller. pike place is dope and has a lot of really old businesses like holy cow records, golden age collectibles which was the first comic book store in the states, and the gum wall)

@alaiyo

Apr 2, 2024

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an amalgamation here so bear with me:

-🍜 Very Fresh Noodles: Nestled in the back of Chelsea Market this place has such delicious noodles, vegan options too! Not too expensive and a great place to catch up with loved ones you haven’t seen in a while ! - 🐠Lamias Fish Market: Call me cheesy but I love the commitment this restaurant has to theme and the interiors are so so beautiful! - 🌳Sheep Meadow as soon as the temp is livable to be sitting outside. One of the most magnificent places, its like Love Actually and is such a perfect and beautiful place to read, have reunions, get inspired by adorable dogs, and depending on where you sit slash if you’re me - dodge frisbees. Honorable mentions for the Mall and then the benches near the sea lions at the Central Park Zoo - 🍕Arthur Avenue in the Bronx: You can find the most magnificent Italian food and goodies here. I think about the Zero Otto Nove butternut squash truffle pizza daily. I also usually stop at one of the markets for a mangonada every time I’m there and now I want one ugh - 🖼️ The Wrightsman Galleries at the Met: I take most art tolerant people visiting the city to this exact spot because it’s simply so magnificent and the lighting is so gorgeous the way it hits all the furniture and changes room to room. I usually also stop into the Albertine from here for the breathtaking room in the lobby and of course the bookstore! - 🎭 Most Shows tbh: of course I’m a theater kid and cringe is the fabric of my lore!! There are so many ways to find relatively approachable tickets for shows whether it’s via lotteries, TDF, today tix, etc. I am fully indoctrinated from my high school eras so take this with a grain of salt but I have wept at some point every time I see a show post lockdown because it’s so unbelievable to experience so many raw emotions in a room of people and to see performers leave everything on the stage multiple times a week!! Agh I’ll cry rn just thinking about it!! - 🌉Most anywhere in Brooklyn: I don’t go here nearly enough and I also lack creative lore so drop me anywhere in Brooklyn and I’m oooing and aahing!! Space is probably the first differentiator, and from there I just love all the more bespoke little stores and restaurants, bars and fashion, and of course the Brooklyn Museum! -

@gabobinson

Feb 14, 2024

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Breweries!

im from seatown! all depends on what you’re looking for, but as someone said earlier it’s a city that’s got a lot of charm vis a vis it’s independent shops/bars/etc. i’d suggest just walking around Cap Hill, Fremont, or Ballard to get a feel for some different neighborhoods nightlife is imo pretty sad compared to any other city in the US…bUt! the brewery scene is unmatched in the country. there are a ton of breweries across the whole city, but id recommend Fremont Brewing if you want a slightly busier place, or any of the ones over in the Ballard Brewery District - you can basically walk between a handful of them and grab some streetfood in between beers. for just regular bars, La Dive on Cap Hill and Bar Miriam on QA are also great spots - both are a little on the upscale side. Otherworld Wine is a new-ish place on Cap Hill and they usually have a killer DJ on weekends also if you can - get out into nature! whether it’s Puget Sound or the Cascades, Seattles got it all. WA has the greatest range of different types of nature within the country so it’s worth getting out of the city if you can

@nacordick

Apr 3, 2024

Top Recs from @johnnyblaze66

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Bricklaying

I absolutely love it. I was lost after college and stumbled ass-backwards into masonry having only done some construction during summer breaks. It’s an old ass building method, and has artistic edge. When someone asks “what would you have done if you lived in Ancient Rome?” I can say I’d be a bricklayer, and that’s a pretty cool feeling.

@johnnyblaze66

Feb 8, 2024

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Cornhole

A great summertime game. The scoring system works in the favor of creating Big Comebacks. I play one point for a bag on the board. Three for one in the hole. 21 points to win the game, and if you don’t get exactly 21 you go back to eleven. Yesterday I played against my roommate, and let me tell you, it was a Scorsese of a game. Almost an hour long and some huge lead changes to boot. Get some beer (put it in a koozie for mystique) and go see what you got!

@johnnyblaze66

Jun 9, 2024

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Poem i wrote

Wrote this last year after getting clean off adderall.

@johnnyblaze66

Sep 30, 2024