I am on assignment in Kirkland now and a couple more times in the next few months.
Looking for suggestions on things that I should explore or experience.
I went to Pike Fish Market and the Space Needle/EMP. So any other items would be nice to go to?
I really like Halibut, so if you know of a restaurant that does it well, please let me know.
Also, Sushi/Vietnamese suggestions are great too.
I don't have a car, so Uber will be my primary source of transportation.
Thanks in advance for the knowledgeable suggestions.
PS. I have already tried googling all of the items above, but have had little luck with finding the cool mom and pop type places that are what i am looking for.
The absolute best advice anyone would give you regarding Seattle is make sure you spend as much time outside of it in Vancouver as possible. Seattle is great, probably somewhere in my top 20-30 American cities but Vancouver is my favorite city after only Paris, Edinburgh and Sydney in that order and ahead of London, NYC, Las Vegas, Toronto etc... Just absolutely amazing Japanese, Chinese and other Asian culture/food but clean and friendly like all of Canada and with access to the best seafood area hands down (and yes as a native Floridian I love Florida seafood but Pacific Northwest seafood is always sweeter and cleaner and as a reefer I think it's the microorganisms, my warm water reefs with corals, fish and other animals from the Carribean, Mediterranien and South Pacific always smells "fishy", "muddy" and grassy/herby when it's time to change the water but the Coldwater tanks I have with saltwater anemones and fish from Northern California, Oregon, Washington and Japan never takes on that smell, it smells like honey and vanilla so very sweet when the water gets "stale" and ready for a change).
Sorry about to go off on a tangent, but Vancouver blows Seattle out of the water. And I really, really like Seattle. So try to get up to Vancouver for a whale watching tour and some amazing food. In addition to the amazing Japanese and Chinese (with multiple authentic styles from different parts of China not the ^+%* takeout "Chinese" you get in most of the U.S.) places, there are a number of First People (ie "Indians and Eskimos") restaurants that are great in particular Salmon n Bannock where you can get muskox, Arctic char, the most amazing spot prawn and the tastiest salmon you've ever had. Plus you can go right down to the docks (where the film Once Upon a Time even though set in Maine) and get urchin, abalone, geoducks, halibut, salmon and tuna straight from the boat. They'll even crack the urchins in front of you so it's ridiculously fresh.
As far as Seattle, there's one sushi place that was on par with the best ones in Vancouver and San Fran but I can't recall its name off the top of my head I'll have to see if I can find it. It was in a neighborhood not in a busy area. There's also some wineries in the area that are as good as those in Napa and the beer is decent (even Red Hook is well worth the trip). But the best part of Seattle is to visit the Taylor Farms outpost just outside of Pikes Market. They've got amazingly fresh (since they farmed them) geoduck, abalone and the best Pacific Oysters. Make sure you visit it at least once.
