Yum Yum Sup Sup – Seattle Fave Five

Posted on | May 24, 2007 | 14 Comments |

Amy of Nook and Pantry, fellow Seattle food blogger tagged me to write about my five favorite restaurants in Seattle. It sounds easy, but I live in a city which is truly a foodie heaven, how do I pick just five? I have way too many favorites. So after pondering this over for about a month, I decided that it is best to pick my favorite restaurants in five different categories, instead of picking my five absolute favorite restaurants, which might all fall in the same genre. So here goes!

Favorite Breakfast- Macrina Bakery and Cafe

Since I’ve blogged about Macrina recently, I won’t go into details about the restaurant. Even though it is always fun to sit in the dining room and enjoy the hearty omelettes, it is such a rarity that we actually find seats there. So we almost always end up getting a take out, our favorite item in the menu – Fried egg sandwich. Crispy fried eggs, with spicy tomato salsa, roasted onions , bacon pieces, Dijon mustard and muenster cheese served on sesame bialy, the best fried egg sandwich in the world! This one moves quick, they only make so many of these, and run out of these pretty fast! The fried-egg sandwich they serve in the restaurant is not the same, first of all it is served on potato bread, and the eggs are done over-easy, and instead of the salsa I think they have a tomato sauce. The to-go sandwich is all solids, just my type!

Check out my previous post on Macrina: http://blog.sigsiv.com/2007/05/macrina-bakery-belltown-best.html

Website: http://www.macrinabakery.com/index.html

Favorite Take-out – Malay Satay Hut

I’m sure everyone has their list of favorite take out place, on those lazy days too tired to cook or sit pretty in a fancy restaurant, we all dial that number, stored in the cellphone, probably on speed dial, no need to look at the menu, it is almost always going to be the same order. For us, that place is Malay Satay Hut – a Seattle favorite. Cuisine is Malaysian, prices are dead cheap, and the food is to die for! If we eat at the restaurant, we always start with the Roti Canai a thin Indian flat bread, served with a thin potato curry. If Siv and I go together, we always get the curry lamb and vegetable fried rice and share both the dishes. If we go with friends, when sharing is not an option, I get the fish with ginger and scallions and Siv gets Nasi Lemak (coconut rice, chicken curry, boiled eggs and pickled anchovies.

Nasi Lemak Roti Canai

But this is about the takeout food, and for take out we always get the Dry Curry Crab and Vegetable Fried Rice. This is the best Crab curry I’ve ever tasted! A whole crab cut into pieces, served in the shell, in a red dry curry with onions, lots and lots of curry leaves and star anise! Simply Delicious! It is so messy to eat the crab in shell, that is why we never get this in the restaurant. I wouldn’t want the public to see the way we attack the poor crab! This is a must try dish!

(All images from http://www.malaysatayhut.com)

Favorite Small Plates – Harvest Vine

This is a tough category to pick a favorite in, since if I picked my absolute favorite five restaurants, three would fall into this set. After thinking about it for a while, I pick Harvest Vine as my favorite tapas bar in Seattle. Check out my review here: http://blog.sigsiv.com/2007/04/harvest-vine-best-tapas-in-town.html

Here is a picture to entice your appetite: Pan seared foie gras with caramelized apples.

http://www.harvestvine.com

Favorite Happy Hour- Cascadia

Cascadia restaurant has the best happy hour deal in town! $1 mini-burgers! And the mini burgers are to die for! This is another place I’ve blogged about, so read more here: http://blog.sigsiv.com/2007/02/cascadia-best-mini-burgers-in-belltown.html

And here is a stack of mini burgers for your viewing pleasure:

http://www.cascadiarestaurant.com

Favorite Special Occasion Dining- Mistral

Finally, a restaurant we haven’t been to in a while! Mistral is where we had our first fine dining experience! It was years ago for an anniversary that we first went there, I think we got a seven course meal, and each and every course lifted us to heaven! I didn’t even know what amuse bouche meant at that time! I still remember the sorbet they served in between courses, we were wondering why they would serve dessert when we had three more courses to go, who knew we were supposed to cleanse the palette before switching to a different course! Our dinner with wine came to about $500 for two, the most expensive meal we had ever had till then, but totally worth every penny. We have come a long way since then , been to some fabulous restaurants in different cities, but Mistral still stands out as the best dining experience in my mind! We still haven’t been to Herbfarm, but out of all the other fine dining restaurants we have been to in Seattle, Mistral is by far our favorite!
http://www.mistralseattle.com

I could go on and on… but instead I will stop with these five fabulous finds and move onto tagging some foodies around the world. I’d like to tag:

Cynthia of Tastes Like Home
- The sweetest journalist from the Caribbean whose posts make me want to travel to Guyana soon. I’d like to know where/what to eat when I visit Guyana or Barbados where she lives now.
Jason of Pursuing my Passions
- Another Seattle food blogger Jason just got back from a Japan trip, so hoping for a list of his fave five in Japan.
Nandita of Saffron Trail
- The celebrity blogger from Mumbai, who has her own TV show now. Her list might be worth a buck or two after she goes mainstream. .
Ros of Living to Eat
- Her posts always make me laugh, and she has great taste! I’d like to know where she loves to eat in London
Shantanu of Traveller’s Tales
- This foodie is a world traveler, so I’ll leave it upto him to pick a city/country!

No pressure! It took me a month before I got around to it. If you end up writing the list, here are the rules:

Add a direct link to your post below the name of the person who tagged you. Include the state and country you’re in.
Nicole (Sydney, Australia)
velverse (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
LB (San Giovanni in Marignano, Italy)
eastcoastlife (East Coast, Singapore)
Tigerfish of Teczcape (California, USA)
Amy of Nook and Pantry (Seattle, WA, USA)
Sig of Live to Eat (Seattle, WA, USA)
List your top 5 favorite places to eat at your location.
Tag 5 other people (preferably from other countries/states) ..and let them know they’ve been tagged

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14 Responses to “Yum Yum Sup Sup – Seattle Fave Five”

Sia
May 24th, 2007 @ 9:01 am
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why u calling me yum yum? LOL…
Ramya's Mane Adige
May 24th, 2007 @ 12:50 pm
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Nice read!
Sharmi
May 24th, 2007 @ 2:10 pm
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hey you do so much of eating out. I always get scared to eat out, may be one reason is being a veggi and the other is I have had a lot of disaster picking wacky food. lot of tries and tests and now exhausted. even Indian restaurants don’t impress me. thats why became a good home cook these days.
Amy
May 24th, 2007 @ 6:44 pm
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Awesome post Sig! I haven’t been to any of these places (a bit embarrassed) but now I know I have to go! I showed Steven the smoked salmon egg combo and he said “Now there’s a breakfast!” so we’re definitely going there. And the mini burgers are really cute! It’s so great you live in Belltown, so close to all the good restaurants!
Sig
May 24th, 2007 @ 10:47 pm
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Sup, lol…. you are a funny gal…

Ramya, thanks!

Sharmi, i love eating out… more than cooking… … I agree with u on Indian restaurants, that is why you wouldn’t see an indian restaurant in my reviews normally, I can cook waaaay better than that

Amy, thanks for making me do this had fun writing it, made me think too… I love living in belltown just for the restaurants
Nicole Tan
May 24th, 2007 @ 11:46 pm
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Wow thanks for all the fantastic pictures!! I’m so hungry now!!! I was already drooling when I saw Fried Egg Sandwich from Macrina Bakery…then came the yummy looking curry crab from Malay Satay Hut…then Pan seared foie gras with caramelized apples from Harvest Wine look so good!! Cascadia and their mini burgers look so cute!! nice presentation

Ps thanks for doing the tag. I hope you enjoyed it.. If you know of anyone else doing it please feel free to send me a message and I’ll update them too on the updated list of tag doers
Cynthia
May 25th, 2007 @ 2:34 am
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Thanks for tagging me. This is definitely going to be interesting. Going to have a think.

Wow crab curry from a fast food place, that’s one of the things I love about certain cities in Amercia. You name it and it can be had. You and Siv are so lucky.
Sig
May 25th, 2007 @ 6:18 am
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Nicole, thanks for starting this meme, I had fun writing it.

Cynthia, it is not really a fast food place, we do a lot of take-out from there, but it is a full-fledged restaurant. . Yeah, I love my city for all the wonderful cuisines it offers…
Freya and Paul
May 25th, 2007 @ 3:38 pm
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All the food looks exception but I am particularly envious of you being so close to the Macrina Bakery – I make do with the cookbook!
Shantanu
May 28th, 2007 @ 8:05 am
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Hi Sig! Thanks for tagging me. Also great post; next time I am in the Seattle area, I know exactly where to go for the best food!
velverse
May 28th, 2007 @ 9:25 am
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Before even starting to read your list.. those pictures killed me already. It’s really that great!

No wonder people say picture is worth a thousand words. The nasi lemak looks as great as the one served here. Over here… we normally try those in triangular packet form.. It somehow tasted more tasty and I still wonder why.

OH MY GOD!!! The dry curry crab is just crazy. I am jumping up and down looking at that pic.

You did a fantastic job in this tag. Really…. I really want to comment more.. but it would seems like I am writing a long essay on your comment box. Hahaha…

I love it… I love your recommendations. Thanks!
Nandita
June 2nd, 2007 @ 3:37 am
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Sweetie I didn;t see this…your wish is my command- will get onto this in the weekend!

Love!
ros
June 4th, 2007 @ 3:59 pm
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Thanks for the tag, Sig. I’ll hopefully do this at the weekends.