Finally Spring is on its way and my exploration of this Belltown neighborhood has resumed. I like to go out at lunchtime and walk around until I see a place where I want to eat. More often than not, I end up at Pike Place Market. There is so much variety there that I can sometimes just snack around until it's time to go back to work.
Yesterday I quickly honed in on Michou, a little walk-up "cafe" in the Market that serves soups, sandwiches and salads (it's just a couple doors south of the piroshki place). I've been there a few times before, and, as I did yesterday, almost always get half a grilled portabello mushroom sandwich with soup or salad on the side. The mushroom actually tastes like mushroom (so many places that serve portabellos over-marinate them so they end up tasting more like brine than anything else)and the creamy fontina cheese rounds it out nicely. I also had a roasted root vegetable salad on the side - I picked out all the carrots and sweet potatoes and ate those - the zucchini had gotten a bit mushy, and I'm not sure what the green peppers were doing in there. But the orange stuff was good! So, for six bucks I had a nice little meal while watching the sun sparkle on the water. I recommend it!
If you would like to make this sort of thing for yourself at home, check out these books we have here in the AiS Library collection:
Simple Italian Sandwiches: Recipes from America's Favorite Panini Bar
by Jennifer & Jason Denton
TX818 .D46 2006
The Essential Root Vegetable Cookbook
Sally & Martin Stone
TX801 .S763 1991
