Things to eat outside the greater Seattle area.
North America
Everett, WA
San Juan Island, WA
Portland, OR
Eugene, OR
Vancouver, B.C
Recommended
Decent
- Beaucoup Bakery
- Had a few good items and not great ones, including some breads that felt stale despite us arriving within 30 minutes of opening
- Angus T (croissants)
- Interesting flavors, but croissants themselves not super fresh (maybe would be better earlier in the day)
Victoria, B.C
Recommended
Decent
- Crust Bakery
- Fernwood Coffee
- Hide + Seek Coffee
- Saveur
- Hazel's Ice Cream
- Parachute Ice Cream
- Pendray Inn Afternoon Tea
- The Empress Hotel Afternoon Tea
- Aura Afternoon Tea
Afternoon Tea - to try
- Butchart Gardens
- Abkhazi Teahouse
NYC
Houston
To Try/ retry
Austin, TX
Orange County-ish, CA
Decent
Big Island, Hawaii
Recommended
Asia
Japan
- Train station bento boxes
- Bread
- Manneken Waffles (liege waffles, chain)
- Ichiran (ramen, chain)
Tokyo
- Bepocah
- The seco with wagyu was divine
- Fuglen (coffee)
- Nanaya (intense matcha ice cream)
- Tonkatsu Maisen
Kyoto
- Rakusho (traditional sweets, koi pond)
- Walden Woods (coffee)
- Yume Wo Katare (ramen)
- Has a sibling restaurant in Boston
- Musubi (some tiny place with amazing beef, small plates)
Uji
- Green tea infused savory foods
- Taihoan (city-run teahouse with tea ceremonies)
- Tokichi (tea, desserts)
- Tsuji Rihei (tea, desserts)
- Masuda Chaho (matcha soft serve)
Singapore
- Chicken rice
- Roti prata
- Nasi lemak
- Kopi/ teh
- Kaya toast breakfast set
- Chili/salted egg/ black pepper crab
- Durian
Taiwan
Taipei
Food
Cafe/Bakery/Dessert
Not Recommended
Chiayi
Food
Tainan
Cafe/Bakery/Dessert
- 太陽牌冰品 (cubed ice desserts)
- a childhood favorite
- may even have been around since my dad's childhood?!
- 吐司喵烘焙坊
- bakery run by my cousin & aunt!
- my favorite pineapple cakes ever (they might only make these on special order now, though)
South America
Peru
Lima
To Try/ retry
Europe
France
Paris
England
London
Oxford
Moreton-in-Marsh, Cotswolds
France
Paris
The Netherlands
- Fries
- Fresh stroopwafels
- Cheese
Amsterdam
Rotterdam
Spain
All the places we went to with varying levels of approval
Granada
- La Autentica Carmela
- Sit down restaurant, pretty good
- Bañuelo Teteria
- Tea and Middle Eastern pastries
- Cafe Futbol
- pretty good churros, mediocre hot chocolate
- Bar Aliatar
- Los Diamantes
- Taberna La Tana
- Casa Enrique (bar)
- El Huerto San Anton (cafe)
- Cafeteria Nueva Estacion (cafe)
- Misc foods tried: jamon serrano/iberico, salmorejo, vermut, butifarra
Madrid
- Pez Tortilla
- Taberna Almeria
- San Gines
- good churros, mediocre hot chocolate
- Bar La Campana
- Cafe Pum Pum
- El Ñeru
- Asturian restaurant, good cheesecake too. Tried: cachopo, fabada
- La Mallorquina
- Cafe on Plaza Mayor, pretty good. Don't get violet-flavored candies
- Puerto Rico (actually a Spanish restaurant)
- some really good tripe dish, squid with rice
- Acid (cafe)
- Pisco y Lima (Peruvian)
- La Barra Dulce
- Restaurante Manolo 1934
- cocido, rabo de toro, patatas bravas
- Boconó
Valencia
- La Marcelina
- seafood by the beach, great paellasg
- Misc food tried: bottled agua de Valencia, chufa nuts, horchata/orxata, farton, buñuelos
Barcelona
- Cinc Sentits
- Catalan focused tasting menu with local ingredients, 10/10 would recommend
- Satan's Coffee Corner
- Nomad Coffee
- JonCake
- La Cansaladeria (inside Mercat de Santa Caterina)
- butchery with, oddly, really good cheesecake
- Pincho J
- don't get their cheesecake
- Conesa Entrepans
- Chök (chocolate/ dessert shop)
- only got a truffle, but other stuff looked good
- Brew Coffee
- Pepa Tomate
- great value menu del dia; tried fideua
- Tincset i mes