The Dish, Seattle

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Ohhh breakfast is my favorite meal of the day. Not only is it my first giddy tangle with food after hours and hours of nothingness, it's filled with so many of my faves: eggs, sausage, bacon, coffee, tea...

It never fails to give my tastebuds a thrill. Thus, I am always looking for the Best Breakfast Around when I'm on vacation. Seattle has so many highly-recced destinations that it was hard to choose which to sample on my recent vacation. My dietary restrictions (and my sister's) did, however, play a role. Some venues focus so heavily on gluten-infested carbs that we gluten-intolerants are restricted to side dishes. Other places actually advertise that they won't do substitutions. I understand they're probably a huge pain for the kitchen staff, but yikes. I did not ask to have the lousy GI tract I was born with. Ahh well.

I knew it was going to be hard to surpass the splendor of Pesos, but I still wanted to give some other places a shot.

The Dish down in Ballard was mostly a hit for my family. They offered an ample variety of different egg-based dishes while still providing gluten-y options for my carb-monster of a mother.

I had a sausage scramble with a side of bacon. (Bacon has become all but non-negotiable on my breakfast plate.) The bacon was not as perfect as Frank's nor as delightful as TBC in Moscow, but was still scrumptious. The scramble was delicious.

Vinyl was abundant, but the room was much sunnier than Peso's cavernous interior. The food was not as unusual as my Seattle morning fave, but it was still worth the drive.

I will definitely go back there again--as soon as my sister can handle non-bland food. My still gestating nephew/niece does not like flavors, the little scoundrel.

Charmed and Sated,
~L