Things to do in Seattle

Downtown Seattle

Explore Pike Place Market

  • Put some gum on the Gum Wall
  • See an improv show at Unexpected Productions
  • Eat a delicious pastry at Piroshky Piroshky
  • Look for our Cohnobi Pack market charm
  • Get a venti at the oldest (not original) Starbucks

Ask us for a Columbia Tower Tour (highest view in town!)

Smith Tower Observation Deck

Seattle Underground Tour

Seattle Central Library (simply an architectural wonder) and Chocolati (great coffee and hot chocolate, inside the library!)

Seattle Art Museum

Seattle Aquarium

Kerry Park (great view of the Seattle skyline)

Seattle Center

  • Space Needle
  • Museum of Pop Culture (science fiction and music)
  • Pacific Science Center

Great restaurants (and happy hours!)

  • Umisake house
  • List
  • Shiro’s sushi
  • Serious Pie
  • Artisan Cafe (for a quick morning bite in Belltown)
  • Local 360

Bars and speakeasies

  • Bathtub Gin
  • Ohana belltown (tiki bar)
  • Deep Dive (speakeasy under Amazon Sphere’s - it’s definitely overpriced but it’s worth the experience. Reservations highly recommended)


Ballard

Ballard Locks and Gardens

Great restaurants and bars

  • Bitterroot
  • Hazlewood (speakeasy)
  • Cafe Mox (board-game cafe)
  • The Walrus and the Carpenter
  • Senor Moose
  • Percy's & Co. Seattle
  • Noble Fir

Coffee and Tea

  • Ballard Coffee Works
  • Miro Tea

Nordic Museum

Salt and Straw ice-cream

Ballard Farmer’s Market


Fremont

Fremont Troll

Explore downtown Fremont: great cafe’s, coffee shops, art stores

Theo’s Chocolate Factory Tours

Great restaurants and bars

  • Cafe Turko
  • El Camino
  • Brouwers
  • Add-a-ball (pin-ball bar, great late night hangout)
  • Fremont Brewery

Fremont Coffee Company


Wallingford/University District

Greenlake Park

Woodland Park Zoo

Burke Museum (Lauryl used to work in the archaeology department!)

Gas Works Park

Archie McPhee’s (ridiculous toy/gimmick store)

Great restaurants and bars

  • Portage Bay
  • Octopus bar
  • Rancho Bravo
  • Dick’s Drive-in (classic Seattle drive thru burger joint)
  • Burgundian
  • Bongo’s (jamaican food)
  • Taste of India

Molly Moon’s ice-cream

Cafe Allegro (oldest coffee shop in Seattle)

The Japanese Cherry Blossoms at University of Washington. They’re part of the same group that was donated to Washington DC!


If you’re planning on an extended stay...

Take a ferry from Downtown Seattle to Bremerton

  • Take a tour of the USS Turner Joy, a Naval Destroyer-turned-museum
  • Breathe some fresh ocean air and maybe see some whales on your one hour ferry ride

Go on a hike!

  • Rattlesnake Ridge
  • Discovery Park
  • Schmitz Preserve Park (an old growth forest inside Seattle city limits!)
  • Arboretum
  • Snoqualmie Falls

Leavenworth (Bavarian/German town)