![]() I think you kids will just as much enjoy the fireworks show at the Blues Festival.īeaches is a good choice for a family. But July 4 fireworks there is very popular with heavy traffic both directions. Vancouver is the WA city just across the Columbia River not far at all. This is an outing everyone visiting Seattle ought to make IMO. Several good kid-friendly food stalls (killer Chinese bakery among them) then take the kids to stare at the amazing live fish section of the market, or treat yourselves to a tour through the city's most outrageous produce section. Two "food courts" of mention - the first in Center House in Seattle Center (location of children's museum) - one of the original "food circuses" in the country the second much newer inside Uwajimaya Village, a wonderful pan-Asian (mainly Japanese) grocery/department store in the International District. Lowell's cafe next door has the same views, better breakfasts, but no Bloody Marys. breakfast) in a big, noisy room with the biggest fishing fleet on the west coast moored outside the window - good for pre- or after-dinner strolling.īurgermaster, several branches, but the ones at 100th and Aurora in Seattle and near the SR 520 - I-405 junction in Bellevue offering carhops and decent burgers and shakes delivered to your half-open car windows.Īthenian Inn in the Pike Market - okay food, ultra funky "old Seattle" setting, great views of ferries and old guys at the bar who've been drinking beer there since hops were invented as seen in "Sleepless in Seattle" and other movies. More fish, but good, Chinooks at Fishermen's Terminal near the locks - quite good food (esp. (Also a chain but the essence of kid-friendly.) Oh, and the Cheesecake Factory has a couple of branches in the Seattle area, too, for meals that would feed a Somali family for a year. Ride there on the waterfront trolly from the Pike Market or Pioneer Square. The Old Spaghetti Factory maintains a branch across from Pier 70 on the central waterfront. The shopping mall branches are fine, though. Red Robin, mentioned above, is now a west coast chain (original still open opposite the University Bridge near the university, now headquartered in Denver.) The original is still the best, but it's more a tavern than a kid's place. ![]() The take-away bar out front (tables and benches on the waterfront below the restaurant windows) is really better value. Fabulous view of downtown, again, not the best but not the worst food, plenty of totem pole kitsch. Ivar's Salmon House, on the north end of Lake Union. It's really not that bad if you don't mind the shrimp-basket approach to seafood (although the fresh fish can be great.) Lots of fun things for kids to look at in the lobby and on the walls, plus numerous seagulls outside the windows. The oldest and not the best, but certainly the most kid-friendly of the waterfront seafood places. Ivar's Acres of Clams, on the central waterfront. Okay, independent restaurants good for families with kids (Seattle). ![]() Take them to a family restaurant in the International District/Chinatown and introduce them to dim sum, delivered on carts to the tables. The usual chains are present, as well as a few unusual opportunities - how about hot dogs eaten on a ferryboat as is cruises across Puget Sound? Or a big (really, really big) breakfast at the Salish Lodge with Snoqualmie Falls outside the window ($$$). Lots of okay-to-good places on the waterfront (fish and chips etc.) or in the market. The first part of August is Seafair, a big 2-week long fair with parades, pirates, hydroplane races on Lake Union, the Blue Angels, and other assorted mayhem.Īs far as restaurants go, there are so many it's hard to name just a few. You can rent rowboats or sailboats on Lake Union and paddle around the houseboats, or paddleboats on Green Lake in N. The Seattle Children's Museum, at Seattle Center is very good, and in general there's plenty to amuse the kids around Seattle Center - fun fair, children's theater, monorail, and above all the Pacific Science Center, Seattle's counterpoint to OMSI. ![]() The Pike Market is dandy for kids, ferry rides, and all the usual things. Go to the Hiram Chittenden Locks on the Lake Washington Ship Canal and watch big boats going up and down through the big locks between the salt and the fresh water, then toodle over the bridge to the underwater viewing windows to watch salmon jumping up the fish ladders en route to the hereafter (as they spawn in the rivers above Lake Washington.) The Seattle zoo is one of the best in the country, with plenty of things for your kids to see and do. ![]()
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