Five Delicious Ways to Taste Seattle at Pike Place Market
While visiting Seattle's iconic Pike Place Market, try some of the produce the market is famous for. Here are five foods you should make sure to sample at the Pike Place Market.
Daily Dozen Donuts: The scent of freshly baked donuts lingers in the wing of the market holding Daily Dozen Donuts Company, and a bag filled with a dozen of their tiny, hot donuts is a prize worth braving the long line for. Choices are limited to plain, cinnamon, powdered sugar, or sprinkles, but the chance to see them made before your eyes more than makes up for it.
Chukar Cherries: Local cherries are dried and drowned in the variety of chocolates for your noshing delight at this tiny booth. Chukar is named for a type of local partridge that's fond of fruit and which sports a cherry red beak and pair of legs. Beyond chocolate, Chukar sells other cherry-dependent delights, like cherry salsa and cherry-blossom scented tea.
MarketSpice: The place to try for spices and teas, MarketSpice's cinnamon orange spiced tea has been a market staple since the 1960s. The highly aromatic but usually jam-packed shop serves free samples of its teas, which are freshly blended each day. Sugar-free, the tea comes in caffeinated or decaffeinated form – or try one of the other dozens of tea blends available.
Smoked salmon: Pike Place Fish has fishmongers ready to fling salmon, halibut and other denizens of the deep through the air to the oohs and ahs of admiring tourists. Pick up some of Seattle's famous smoked salmon, either hot-smoked or cold-smoked, for a taste familiar to Emerald City citizens. Or if you prefer fresher fish, choose one of the many stacked on the ice here or try a mess of the fresh shellfish also in evidence.
Fresh produce: Don't leave the market without trying some of the fresh produce that's available here, and which the market has been selling for over a century. Originally formed to combat price-gouging among early citizens, the market has been supplying Seattle diners with fruits and vegetables from local farms ever since. Washington's long growing season means there's plenty of produce available nearly year round.
HelloSeattle Tip: Missing dairy for your dinner menu? Venture across the street to Beecher's Cheeses.
Posted on May 3, 2011 by Cat Rambo
