The Seattle Weekly’s “Best of Seattle 2009” issue is out now and makes for some mighty fine readin’. Wallingford fared well this year, but we already knew it would. Cuz Wallingford is awesome.
Here’s what Seattle had to say about the ‘hood:
- Best Shop for Getting to Know the Proprietor: Not A Number Cards & Gifts
- Best Restraurant to Expand Your Palate: Joule
- Best Ice Cream/Gelato/Custard: Molly Moon’s
- Best Line Worth Waiting in: Molly Moon’s of course!
- Best Place for Locals to Eat Salmon: Ivar’s Salmon House
- Best Guilty Pleasure: Trophy Cupcakes
- Best French Toast: Tilth Restaurant
- Best Alternative to Stitch N Bitch: Fusion Beads
- Best Reason to Learn a Slip-Slip-Knit: Seattle Purly Girls, meeting at the Blue Star Cafe @ 4512 Stone Way N.
- Best Omelettes (and Mimosas!): The Rusty Pelican Cafe @ 1924 N. 45th. We’d like to add that you gotta try the chocolate martini sometime too!
- Best Way to Take Rachel Ray and Run With Her: Molly Moon’s Sam’s Sundae. Chocolate ice cream & bergamot-infused EVOO + coarse sea salt.
- Best Urban Muralist: Ryan Henry Ward. He’s not a Wallingford business owner (yet! hint hint, Henry!) but he paints here! See our blog entry about Henry here.
- Best Corner for Sugar Addicts: NE 45th Street & Wallingford Avenue! The Weekly mentions Molly Moon’s, Trophy Cupcakes, High 5 Pie (oh yeah! At Fuel Coffee), and Fainting Goat Gelato. They forgot QFC & Babalu’s (alcohol converts to sugar after all) and plenty of others as well. But it’s true. Best corner for sugar!
Congratulations to all!
I’m sure we missed something. What’d we miss? Oh yeah. And while congratuations are in order for the West Seattle Blog and My Ballard, winner and “close second” for Best Neighborhood Blog, look out for Wallyhood in 2010. Game on!
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Best Kid’s Haircut: Li’l Klippers
Best Stand-in For An 80s-era McDonald’s Hot Apple Pie: High 5 Pie’s Flipsides (they listed the Fuel Coffee in Cap Hill, but we have one, too!)
Nice, thanks Joan!
well, Hollow Earth Radio (www.hollowearthradio.com) won best Independant Radio Station which operates out of Wallingford.
-DJ KNUCKLE SUPPER
The only category The Rusty Pelican should win in is ‘Best place to recommend to people you don’t like’. I’d say it’s a step above high school cafeterias but I think the schools put in more effort.
Bland, uninspired, lowest-common-denominator eating. I’ve been hoping for them to go out of business after I made the mistake of eating there a second time. Wallingford deserves better.
I completely agree that the Rusty Pelican (or the Crusty Barnacle as some neighbors call it) is absolutely disgusting. That being said, I haven’t tried the omelettes or the mimosas…
Crusty Barnacle. Now that’s awesome.
I can’t stop saying “Expensive Baking” when I try to say “Essential Baking.”
The only category The Rusty Pelican should win in is ‘Best place to recommend to people you don’t like’.
Be thankful for The Rusty Pelican, it’s keeping me and my little ones out of the other restaurants.
Seriously, as long as you avoid the brunch crowd, you never wait for a table, and I found RP staff never batted an eye when I asked for a table with a babe in arms and a toddler clearly ready to run.
It took me many tries before I found a dish even mildly palatable, but at least it got me and the kids out of the house.
Can’t say I’d recommend it to anyone without kids though.
When my mother was visiting last week (first trip to Seattle) she said that the omelet at Blue Star was the best she’d ever had. I’ve never been to the Rusty Pelican, and it sounds like I probably won’t be going there soon.
I also got a chance to try Bizzarro for the first time recently, and thought it was excellent. This isn’t very relevant to the topic, I was just surprised by this strangely named and somewhat hidden local treasure.
Bizarro is great. The Rusty Pelican is terrible. Before that it was Nikola’s, and that wasn’t so good either. I think that location is cursed by mediocrity.