Pike Place Market, Seattle - My Most Favourite Market in North America!

Before we came to visit Seattle, I heard of Pike Market from friends who visited there before.
We have our own market in Toronto and I have visited many other local farmers' markets.
However, nothing compared to what we saw at Pike Market.

Pike Place Market, Seattle, Washington, USA

Pike Place Market is located on the waterfront of Seattle overlooking Elliott Lake.
 It has been crowned as the most instagrammed location in Washington State for 2017!

An old book store in the old section of Pike Place

It  is a big place with a number of buildings and there are many things so see.

 We spent an afternoon at Pike Place Market and visited mainly the craft building, the produce and fish market.

Artwork and paintings by local artists for sale everyday at Pike Place

Life like flowers made out of clay at the Pike Market

I enjoy doing crafts and love spending time looking at interesting and original crafts such as these lifelike tiny flowers made out of clay above; and

Below the creative 3 dimensional pictures sewn together with a beach theme.Totally loved it!

A fabric art piece sewn together with  numerous 3 dimensional figures on a beach theme

We could have easily explored the market for a whole day getting lost among all the shops.

An abundance of fresh fish and seafood for sale at the Market

We tried a number of freshly prepared food at the market including clam chowder, a mussels and clam combo platter, some rich Russian pastries.

Huge King Crabs and seafood at the Fish Market

There was an abundance of  fresh seafood, produce and good restaurants at the Market.

Italian Caulifower

In the Produce Building,  we saw a few vegetables which we had never seen before such as this Romanesco ( Italian cauliflower).

I wish we could have bought some home and tried them.



















When we were tired, we took a break and and tried some local food.


We tried the crab seafood sandwich served on biscuits in the new building of the market.

We also stopped at Beecher's, one of the food stores.  It is not just a restaurant. It is a cheese making store.

We sampled the cheese produced at the shop. There were freshly made grilled cheese sandwiches,  macaroni and cheese or other food items for customers to purchase and enjoy.

Cheese making at Beecher's Pike Place Market

While enjoying the food,  we could sit and observe the entire process of cheese making from the beginning to the end at the store.

A free lesson and demo on cheese making.

Very interesting and educational!

Nice music flowing out of this store selling LPs.

A shop selling 3D wood puzzles at Pike Place

There were shops and stalls selling crafts, gifts, clothes, accessories and antique items such as comic books, LP records.

A shop selling old coins and posters.

I wonder how long it would have taken us if we had stopped at every store and taken a quick look.











Too bad, we did not have time to do that.

Ventures Marketplace, Pike Place Market, Seattle

Of all the things we saw, there were three stops where we enjoyed ourselves the most:

1. The Crafts Building
2. The Ventures Marketplace store selling unique gifts from local entrepreneurs
3. The Giant Shoe

A humourous sign displayed by a shop owner at Pike Place Market

Pike Place Market was a fun place to visit, browse, explore, shop and eat!








We had a hearty laugh reading some of the humorous signs we saw at the Market.

I thought of my brothers and the men who own tools when I saw this sign!

I couldn't help to compare my height with the tallest man in the world when we passed by the Shoe Museum.

We thoroughly enjoyed every minute of our visit and we would definitely come back again.

Pike Place Market, Seattle

Pike Place Market, with free admission, is a must see place for visitors to Seattle!

R.T.
Pike Place Market
Seattle, Washington
USA