Good morning from statistically the rainiest city in the US today we have been blessed and
the sun is shining hopefully it doesn't rain today a couple of days ago we jumped on a Greyhound bus
and rode three hours up the coast from Portland to get us here in Seattle today we are doing another
food tour but we were blown away when we started researching this I thought we would do like one
food tour in the United States but it turns out Portland Foods boiled chicken and rice just a
bit weird surprisingly good and Seattle food that is so good oh my God so weird it's right are very
different things and to be honest I'm more excited about the Seattle food probably because this one
includes a hot dog we've started the day down by the wharf at Pier 62. there's a sun oh and
we are super close to what some people call the soul of the city and we can see the Space Needle
our first food of the day is actually located inside this
soul of the city place so we're gonna head the first
I think we undersold the pier there is chess, Checkers, Connect Four amazing views,
seats for everyone there's like a little mini soccer pitch for some reason a fire pit that
goes on every week it's really cool Seattle's like one of the best cities we've been to so far
Of course the soul of the city we're talking about is Pike Place Market which is this one
behind me actually started operating in 1907 so over a hundred years it's really become home to
a lot of farmers and people that need to just sell their Wares and tourists we love it and
this entire city of Seattle is kind of known for its seafood and having a market that's
right on the water means they've got some pretty fresh stuff so our first food on the
list from this Market is a smoked salmon bagel and I cannot be more excited if we can find it
well here you go
really good I'm so excited for the bagel now let's find one
We're walking around in the market for quite a while trying to find somewhere that sells
Bagels one place was shut one place it was $24 but they recommended a third place three
girls bakery and we got a cream cheese and salmon Bagels look at that it is heavy wow
that is so good
some cream cheese on my face oh the salmon is like
perfectly smooth and the cream cheese and capers are so fresh this is huge
time for a coffee I know just the place being in America Starbucks is everywhere we've probably
passed three or four on our way just walking to this Market but there's one that's very
special near this Market in the first Starbucks ever opened in the 1970s and it's pretty famous
because there's a huge line out the front that we're gonna have to wait this might be the longest
line we have ever waited in for coffee I don't even know if they do anything different to regular
Starbucks it's just the original one we could literally walk up the street to another Starbucks
walk right in and order straight away but we're choosing to wait here to experience the original
25 minutes later and we have our drinks from the first ever Starbucks we went in
there and asked for the funnest fact they have and apparently for the first 15 years
of Starbucks as a company they didn't actually serve coffee they serve like the coffee beans
so you could make coffee at home but they didn't put in an espresso machine until 15 years into
the business which blows my mind because you just think of it as a cafe another thing I've
noticed is that they have definitely refined and bettered the logo the original one is a
bit creepy and a bit weird I went for one of the Heritage options which is like a lavender latte
interesting but good they gave us a free sample of the iced lavender latte out the front and it
was amazing I think it's better ice but it's too cold today to order that so I went for
the pike roast latte which is a coffee roasted specifically designed and sold here in the first
ever store so we've got two very unique drinks and they're both pretty good they opened in 1971.
no that shop existed in 1912. and they were only
selling coffee beans for the first 13 years I know you did but you're wrong
yeah I'm so hungry let's go
someone's made a face we have found the famous gum alley I think is what it's
called I am impressed and disgusted I don't know how something like this becomes a thing
it's kind of pretty until you think and remember what it is and then it's a bit gross this is
close to the grossest thing we've ever done if not the egress we don't have any gum to join
in the tradition but I'm okay with that yeah I'm not mad about it I think let's go for a
walk and try and forget about this so we can eat yeah we're supposed to be on a food tour
our final stop at Pike Place Pike Place Market our final stop at Pike Place
Market is Beaches cheese Emporium I've made that name up after awesome mac and
cheese the world's best Mac and Cheese we decided to go here because Kara and Nate,
our inspiration for everything came here and it looks amazing look at that so the thing that
sets beaches apart is that it's family owned and they make their own cheese in-house it's
a five-step two-day process to make the cheese and you can actually watch them making it in the store
wow oh my gosh that's delicious it is so simple but super tasty the pasta is cooked
to Perfection and the cheese sauce is very like cheesy but like almost a Punchy cheese
all right, share. it's so cool in there though the fact that you can sit there
and watch them make the cheese while you're eating your grilled cheese or
your Mac and Cheese it's so much fun and you get to sit on these little like milk
shaped stools I love it now we are going to what Jordan has been looking forward
to since he found out about it we're going to go try something called a Seattle dog
now we are at the most anticipated spot for me at least we're getting a hot dog well first time in
Seattle yeah yeah nice here you guys go thank you so much even the guy that made this for us said
he wasn't convinced when he first heard about it this Seattle dog is a normal hot dog but you've
got a bunch of bell peppers and sauteed onions and tomato on top and cream cheese on the bun which
is the weirdest part he said that he couldn't believe it when he heard about it but it changed
his mind once he tried it most people they want to hear cream cheese on the hot dog they're like
why yeah believe me the first time I I heard about it I'm likecream cheese goes on a bagel
I really like it I'm not usually a big fan of
like onions and anything that could be considered healthy
cream cheese you can't taste as much as I thought you'd be able to but
it kind of complements the hot dogs
so messy okay I've stripped it down to the bare elements I've got the cream cheese the
bun and the hot dog it's really like another take a big cream cheese bite
it works
even just saying that with the camera that really works we've gotta go buy some cream cheese
I really wasn't sold because cream cheese belongs on a bagel but
that works for some reason so weird it's right you can finish it though
all right starting to get really full and the next thing we're trying is actually going to be
our dinner and we have had it before so we kind of know what to expect but I think it's kind
of equally as famous as some of the other stuff we've tried about a 20 minute walk to get there
E for Emily, because it's pointing towards me
so Dick's drive in is somewhat of a Seattle institution it opened all the way back in
like 1950s and is super popular because the menu and prices haven't really changed
since we're gonna go pick up some takeaway dinner and on the way back we're gonna call
into molten cakes for a dessert before heading back home for a bit of a feast
dinner dessert time to go home and enjoy
the reason we found dicks for the first time was because we were trying to find the cheapest food
possible in Seattle and this one came up on a few different blog posts we went there and we
were pretty shocked by what we saw it's just like you've been Zapped back to the 50s and you're in
a regional McDonald's like you see in the movie 'founder' there's so many burgers being whipped up
and made together I don't know it's just all old school and it's really cool yeah it's like burgers
and milkshakes yeah went for a cheeseburger making fun hmm a really simple standard cheeseburger but
we've got two burgers and fries for eight dollars something which is crazy cheap in America yeah for
America prices like the two coffees we got when we're at the Pike Place Market were like $13
American dollars or something crazy so this to be cheaper I can see why with those prices it's
become like an institution plus it just tastes like a bit fresher than McDonald's not as greasy
I don't know okay the last thing on our Seattle food tour molten lava cakes this was recommended
through again another blog post and we've got some ice cream with it whoa caramel so once you
order it takes 10 minutes for it to get cooked so it's really fresh that is Rich that's so rich
that is like 10 times better than a Domino's lava cake and like like crunchy pecans or caramel or
whatever it is in my opinion today's food beats Portland and Portland was voted the like foodie
capital of America I agree every place we went was a little bit better in Seattle so tomorrow we
are going back out on the street and we're going to explore what Seattle has to offer that's not
food so it should be a more budget friendly day it feels like we just stop what is this place
because I think we spent almost our entire budget today just on food yeah we haven't
actually calculated it but I'll calculate it after the fact and I'll put it on screen
that hurts so tomorrow we'll be we'll be exploring the city legit and coming back and eating
cup noodles just a bit of reality thrown in not every day is this yeah that's our normal diet
this is so good
you're either a teaspoon person or you're a regular spoon person