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Title: Burger at West Seattle.
Post by: Roadstergal on September 28, 2005, 12:06:33 PM
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Title: Burger at West Seattle.
Post by: RVertigo on September 28, 2005, 12:09:48 PM
ALIENS!!!


I went over there the other day...  But, I don't have a camera worth using at night. :(
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Post by: groff22 on September 29, 2005, 09:03:18 AM
Question, what on earth do you do that allows you to ride so many bikes?? :)

and can you get me a job there?
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Post by: JetSwing on September 29, 2005, 09:29:59 AM
ummm...i was thinking...chicken burger

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very nice snaps thoguh
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Post by: Roadstergal on September 29, 2005, 09:43:35 AM
Quote from: groff22and can you get me a job there?

You don't want one here, really...

It's a matter of sacrificing in other areas to do bikes.  And being smart about buying and selling (I wasn't smart about buying the F650, and I lost my shirt. Lesson learned).
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Post by: jen_ on September 29, 2005, 10:28:23 AM
I get to come to Seattle  :)  for a work meeting thingie :( .  So I have basically one free day for sightseeing.  I am planning on going to the Museum of Glass in Tacoma.  Are there any other vital tourist spots I need to hit?  Secret non-touristy fun places?
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Post by: RVertigo on September 29, 2005, 10:43:04 AM
You should come hang out!!

A friend of mine went to the Museum of Glass...  he said it was the stupidest thing he's ever seen.

We have the Asian Art Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, the Museum of Flight...  I'm sure there are a few more...

The aquarium sucks too...  (as does most of the crap on the water-front) Unless you're a six year old kid...  Then it's cool.
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Post by: Alphamazing on September 29, 2005, 10:44:59 AM
Quote from: RoadstergalI wasn't smart about buying the F650, and I lost my shirt.

:o
Sweet...
I mean...

:lol:

So juvenile.
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Post by: Roadstergal on September 29, 2005, 10:52:41 AM
And we have gratuitous Chihulys scattered about.  We can show you the sights.  :)

Nothing as good as the Art Institute in Chicago, but fun stuff.

Yes, it is annoying that a port city has such a lousy aquarium.
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Post by: Jake D on September 29, 2005, 11:03:49 AM
Chilhulys.  Go to Gas Works.  Go to Belltown, Flight Museum is okay.  Go visit the UW campus and eat some Tai food.  Go to Alki Beach.  Fish Market.  Experiance Music.  The crappy thing about Seattle is there is no place to get drunk!  Doesn't anybody get drunk there?  Sheesssh.  

Plus a can of Skoal costs like $10.  WTF.
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Post by: Roadstergal on September 29, 2005, 11:13:17 AM
Dragonfish.  Open until wee hours.

The place we went for my PI's promotion party was open until 2, but it moved to Capitol Hill.  Which is another good place to hang out.  Oh, make sure you stop by Babeland.  Across from BMW Seattle.  The best sex shop I've ever been to.
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Post by: Jake D on September 29, 2005, 11:23:57 AM
Personally, I don't (ever) go to Capital Hill when I am in Seattle.  But that's just how I roll.  

Dragonfish, huh?  I'll have to check that out.  I usually just get drunk on my buddy's front porch in West Seattle.
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Post by: Alphamazing on September 29, 2005, 11:25:47 AM
Those are gorgeous pics, RG. Thanks for sharing them!
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Post by: RVertigo on September 29, 2005, 11:38:38 AM
Quote from: Jake DGo to Belltown
Belltown?  For what?   :lol:   When was the last time you were in Belltown?  It's just a condo farm now...  Well...  You can still find any drug you want and the occasional hooker, but it's mostly a condo farm.

Gasworks is cool for a drive-by...  Just like the Troll.

The Flight Museum is cool if you're into that stuff.   :thumb:

Pike Place (where the fish market lives) is fun in a dirty, smells like piss and rotting fish sort of way.

EMP is boring even for music geeks.

You can get drunk all over the place...  Next time you're in town, catch a cab to the Hill...  There are TONS of bars up there.  And only 15% of them are ghey bars.

And...  You need to go to Spokane for Skoal.   :lol:
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Post by: Roadstergal on September 29, 2005, 11:41:29 AM
Quote from: Jake DPersonally, I don't (ever) go to Capital Hill when I am in Seattle.

Oh, that's why you think there's nothing to do here!  :mrgreen:  90% of the things worth doing in an urban sense and the bars worth going to are up there.  It's not all about ghey culture, although it's certainly a very ghey-friendly area.
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Post by: aaronstj on September 29, 2005, 11:45:50 AM
Quote from: Jake DPersonally, I don't (ever) go to Capital Hill when I am in Seattle.  But that's just how I roll.
What's wrong with the hill?  I live there!  :)

Don't go to the glass museum.  I fuggin hate that guy.

Pike Place is worth seeing.  I haven't been to the art museum in years, but I remember it being good.  There are plenty of places to get drunk.  I'm not a huge fan of Alki beach.  It's dirty, and a pretty lame beach.  But if you wanna see squids, they love to troll up and down there.  Belltown has decent restaurants.  There is a lot of good food in Seattle, so be sure to eat some.  Thai, Indian (well, in the U district, anyone know of any good Indian downtown), Japanese, some good Mexican.  Hit up the international disctrict (Chinatown), there's lot of good (and some kinda shady) food there.  +1 to the Museum of Flight.

Err, that's all off the top of my head.  Seattle is a lot smaller town than it thinks it is.
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Post by: Jake D on September 29, 2005, 11:50:37 AM
Snap!  I've been dupped!  
You see, I was lead to believe that if I went there, I'd never want to return.  Come to think of it, the biggest homophobe I've ever met made this statement.  

This warrants a return trip to Seattle.  I better start looking on line.  
The one thing I thought your town was missing was night life.  I've been dupped.  

Hookers and drugs?  :thumb: Just kidding.  

No, Gas Works is cool because that is where they shot the "should we get married scene" in Singles right before Kevin Bacon's wife gets crushed by the guy running the red light.  I go there every time.
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Post by: Roadstergal on September 29, 2005, 11:56:36 AM
Quote from: aaronstj(well, in the U district, anyone know of any good Indian downtown)

I'm actually whelmed with the Indian food in the U district.  But Devon Avenue will spoil you.  The best Indian place I've found is Masala, sitting - god help us - right next to Northgate Mall.

The best mediterranean place I've found is Aladdin's Gyro-cery.  Terrific veggie fare.
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Post by: aaronstj on September 29, 2005, 12:17:56 PM
Aladin's is some good stuff.  Everyone loves that place.  The gyro place in the market is pretty good, too.  People that I work with like the gyro's at the Mediterranean Mix in pioneer square.  They're decent, but what they've really got going in a fantastic cheesesteak, of all things.  

+1 For using the word "whelmed."  Try Taste of India or Cedars in the U District.  That's the seriously good shaZam!.  I'll have to give Masala a try, though.  I do love me some Indian.

Quote from: Jake DYou see, I was lead to believe that if I went there, I'd never want to return. Come to think of it, the biggest homophobe I've ever met made this statement.
Going to Capitol Hill won't give you teh ghey.  It is a really liberal place, but it's laid back.  I like the neihborhood a lot.  But then, I also like teh gays.  Not sexually, I just think they're cool people.   :)
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Post by: RVertigo on September 29, 2005, 12:19:39 PM
There are a lot of cool places up there...  But, the best part is that when one is tired, you walk up/down/over to a different one.

:thumb:

Except for the Cha... That place always sucks.   :lol:
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Post by: aaronstj on September 29, 2005, 12:20:32 PM
Never been there.  I have some friends that love it and some that hate it.
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Post by: RVertigo on September 29, 2005, 12:24:45 PM
There's a place right by there that's better...  I can never remember the name.

I walked in one night and the DJ was spinning Slayer on vinyl...   :kiss:

The JuJu is cool on Fridays...  DJ Cincinnati is pretty cool.  Rock stuff...  She's always down to spin your requests.   :mrgreen:
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Post by: Jake D on September 29, 2005, 12:27:58 PM
What is the really good Thai place in Freemont?  It is driving me nuts.

Across from Three Corners?
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Post by: RVertigo on September 29, 2005, 12:32:20 PM
Jai Thai?
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Post by: Jake D on September 29, 2005, 12:43:01 PM
I don't think so.  There is one of the OTHER side of the street too.  Best curry, both red and green.  

Maybe you're right though.  Damn!!!!  This is drinving me nuts!
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Post by: aaronstj on September 29, 2005, 01:35:38 PM
+1 to the Bad Juju.  I heard it was closing, though?
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Post by: Roadstergal on September 29, 2005, 01:51:09 PM
Chantanee (http://seattle.citysearch.com/profile/10728498/bellevue_wa/chantanee_family_thai_restaurant.html) is two and a half blocks away from me, and it is awesome.
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Post by: Roadstergal on September 29, 2005, 01:54:06 PM
Capitol Hill pics.  :)

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Post by: RVertigo on September 29, 2005, 01:56:54 PM
Quote from: RoadstergalChantanee is two and a half blocks away from me, and it is awesome.
I liked the King and I better...  Plus it was a shorter walk...  I used to live in the "Bel Air" apartments on Main and 108th.
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Post by: RVertigo on September 29, 2005, 02:01:25 PM
Quote from: aaronstj+1 to the Bad Juju.  I heard it was closing, though?
:o NO!  Don't say it, don't even think it. :x

Oh well...  I never go there lately. :dunno:
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Post by: Roadstergal on September 29, 2005, 02:04:37 PM
King and I is good, but I've liked Chantanee better... then again, I'm only eating the veggie dishes.

I don't think I could ever get tired of Pad Thai.
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Post by: RVertigo on September 29, 2005, 02:08:20 PM
Quote from: RoadstergalI don't think I could ever get tired of Pad Thai.
Same...  Chicken... 4 Star...  Yum!

There's a noodle house down by me called Phuket...  That's "Foooo `Ket."  Not the best I've ever had, but pretty good...  and cheap.
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Post by: Badger on September 29, 2005, 02:29:43 PM
Quote from: RoadstergalThe best mediterranean place I've found is Aladdin's Gyro-cery.  Terrific veggie fare.
There a fantastic greek place in Bellevue, on the corner of 1st St....the Mediterranean Kitchen or something like that.  Hole in the wall...great food.
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Post by: aaronstj on September 29, 2005, 02:32:14 PM
Yeah, that place is great.  My wife loves it.  
Way too much food with way to much garlic... how can you go wrong?
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Post by: RVertigo on September 29, 2005, 02:51:17 PM
You're not talking about the place that used to be an IHOP are you?

You mean the little Med Deli up the street?
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Post by: natedawg120 on September 29, 2005, 03:10:42 PM
poped in late, I like the scooter :thumb:  As for the resaurant talk i'll take your work for it, only been to the area once.
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Post by: Badger on September 29, 2005, 04:45:48 PM
Quote from: RVertigoYou're not talking about the place that used to be an IHOP are you?

You mean the little Med Deli up the street?
Mediterranean Kitchen, 1st and Bellevue Way, just south of Bellevue Square.  Sit down restaurant, probably 10 tables, infinite supply of garlic, fabulous house dressing, tzadziki to die for, spanikopita a must.

http://www.medkitchen.com

I usually get out to Seattle a couple times a year, and make a point to stop here and the Metropolitan Grill while I'm in town.