Seattle
is America's Cinderella city. Founded 75 years after US independence
and overlooked until the 1960s, it's been making up for lost time ever
since.Coffee and Beer
The city that invented
Starbucks coffee and Rainier beer has gone back to the drawing board in
recent years and come up with an interesting alternative – a new wave
of small, independent micro-businesses that are determined to put taste
over global reach. Imbibe the nuances of a home-roasted Guatemalan
coffee and check out the latest in nano-breweries in the city that has
put a coffee shop on every street corner and created a different craft
beer for every night of the year.
Music and Art
Imagine: a rocket sticking
out of a shoe shop and a museum built to resemble a smashed-up electric
guitar; wooden boats stacked with glass orbs and a statue of Lenin
caught in a vengeful Bolshevik-era grimace; a waterside sculpture park
and a Saturday-evening art walk through a blue-collar warehouse
district; indie bands playing in grungy pubs and hip-hop artists
eschewing bling for thrift shops. No, you haven't just over-indulged in
some powerful (legal) marijuana. The city that inspired Dale Chihuly,
Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix and Macklemore has a lot to offer in the way
of music and art – and it’s never remotely dull.
A Confederation of Neighborhoods
Since
it's less a city and more a loose alliance of jostling neighborhoods,
getting to know Seattle is like hanging out with a family of
affectionate but sometimes errant siblings. There’s the aloof, elegant
one (Queen Anne), the cool, edgy one (Capitol Hill), the weird, bearded
one (Fremont), the independently minded Scandinavian one (Ballard), the
bruised, weather-beaten one (Pioneer Square) and the precocious
adolescent still carving out its identity (South Lake Union). You’ll
never fully understand Seattle until you’ve had a microbrew in all of
them. Going Local
Make a beeline for Seattle’s proverbial pantry: Pike Place Market.
Founded in 1907 to ply lucky locals with fresh Northwest produce, the
market’s long-held mantra of ‘meet the producer’ is still echoed
enthusiastically around a city where every restaurateur worth their salt
knows the first name of their fishmonger and the biography of the cow
that made yesterday’s burgers. Welcome to a city of well-educated
palates and wildly experimental chefs who are willing to fuse American
cuisine with just about anything – as long as the ingredients are
local. Show in Lonely Planet
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