Posted by Michael Stern on May 09, 2006
Pike Place Market is a wonderland of food – groceries as well as ready-to-eat meals. Our favorite way to prepare ourselves for a morning of browsing and grazing is breakfast at The Crumpet Shop. For more than a quarter century, this quirky store been serving wonderful warm crumpets. In case you don’t know, a crumpet is thick like an English muffin but chewier and richer-flavored. It has a crisp, craggy-textured surface that begs to be heaped with butter and fruit-clotted marmalade.
The Crumpet Shop serves crumpets for breakfast, brunch, and lunch. You can get them simply buttered, or with a choice from among nearly two dozen different sorts of toppings, including honey, Nutella, local jams, and pesto-colored eggs with ham. On the side, have a latte or a cup of imported tea.
And do bring home some edible or potable souvenirs! The shelves are stocked with exotic teas from around the world as well as an assortment of honeys and preserves, oatmeals, grains, and cereals. Crumpets are available, too, already cooked: sold by the six-pack, ready to take home, heat, and eat.
Overall: Worth driving from anyplace
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"The Vermont crumpet is topped with maple butter. Cream cheese and walnuts are optional. "
Michael Stern
"What you cannot see in this close-up of the Vermont crumpet, topped with maple butter, is how crisp the top is, and how creamy the interior."
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"A fresh batch of Crumpet Shop crumpets cools on a wire rack. (Marc Bruno photo)"
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"This single table outside the Crumpet Shop affords a nice perspective on Market life. (Marc Bruno photo)"
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"A place to relax between bouts with the sometimes frenetic food fair that is the Pike Place Market"
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"If you are a foodie, the Pike Place Market is heaven on earth."
Michael Stern
