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I had a lovely evening around the north end with the coven. That's La Fashionista, Tacoma Girl, and I, if you'll recall.
Tacoma Girl turned me on to the Kraken – the bar on the Ave*, not our local hockey team. The Kraken is what happens when people with taste and business sense run a punk bar. For a place that hosts punk shows – the coven had to leave a table onstage and head outdoors – the cocktails, beer selection, and decor are awfully well done. A+ would drink there again.
I returned the favor by turning Tacoma Girl on to Persepolis, just up the Ave from the Kraken. Too much super tasty Persian food. I was the only one of the three of us who ordered "dough" as they spelled it on the menu: yogurt, soda water, salt, and dill. I'd had it before and I effing love it. Tacoma Girl tried it and... didn't, so much. La Fashionista noped out. No booze available because Muslims, natch. Plus, good dolmades.
Edited to add: the restaurant had a few dolls dressed in traditional Persian clothes. I'm the only one of the coven who noticed them. I looked them up, and they're for Haft Seen, which is part of the Nowruz (Persian new year) celebration.
Thence off to La Fashionista's for krautrock, hip hop, kitty petting, and curiously strong homemade cider.
*For you non-locals, officially, the Ave is University Way NE. It's where 14th Ave. NE would be if there were a 14th Ave. NE. Coincidentally, 14th Ave. E, a few miles to the south on Capitol Hill, used to be called Millionaire's Row and still has a lot of grand older houses on it.
Tacoma Girl turned me on to the Kraken – the bar on the Ave*, not our local hockey team. The Kraken is what happens when people with taste and business sense run a punk bar. For a place that hosts punk shows – the coven had to leave a table onstage and head outdoors – the cocktails, beer selection, and decor are awfully well done. A+ would drink there again.
I returned the favor by turning Tacoma Girl on to Persepolis, just up the Ave from the Kraken. Too much super tasty Persian food. I was the only one of the three of us who ordered "dough" as they spelled it on the menu: yogurt, soda water, salt, and dill. I'd had it before and I effing love it. Tacoma Girl tried it and... didn't, so much. La Fashionista noped out. No booze available because Muslims, natch. Plus, good dolmades.
Edited to add: the restaurant had a few dolls dressed in traditional Persian clothes. I'm the only one of the coven who noticed them. I looked them up, and they're for Haft Seen, which is part of the Nowruz (Persian new year) celebration.
Thence off to La Fashionista's for krautrock, hip hop, kitty petting, and curiously strong homemade cider.
*For you non-locals, officially, the Ave is University Way NE. It's where 14th Ave. NE would be if there were a 14th Ave. NE. Coincidentally, 14th Ave. E, a few miles to the south on Capitol Hill, used to be called Millionaire's Row and still has a lot of grand older houses on it.
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Date: 2022-02-19 11:46 pm (UTC)From:Sounds like 6th Avenue in NYC. Officially called Avenue of the Americas, which is on all the street signs, but no local ever calls it that. I think that being NYC, it is less about Preserving Tradition and more about It's Faster to Say.