I have a friend who recently moved to Seattle and she hasn't found a good Jewish deli, someplace to get matzo ball soup. Anyone know of one?

No jewish deli, but amazing is Peroshki at the market. So many trips and I never tried it. If you have a chance it's a must.



Side note. If you should find yourself at Matt's and Benjamin is tending bar order the sazerac.

Enjoy.

Kenny and Zuke's in Portland?

Not deli advice but recently was in Seattle for two nights on business and found two gems:

1- just 5 minutes from the airport is a hotel called Cedarbrook (http://www.cedarbrooklodge.com/)
which used to be an executive retreat center for WaMu. They provide free shuttles to the light rail and a setting that is so relaxing and gorgeous, it's amazing. The rooms are large and beautiful and grouped in three buildings that each have a shared "living room" complete with an array of snack foods, a fridge with bottled water, yogurts and all varieties of haagen daz - all free if you just have a late nite craving. Their restaurant serves superb new american local ... and is small and intimate. It would match up nicely with say Naha, their bar is also small and feels like a friends living room but a friend with very good taste in decor and beverages (Hendricks is a standard, etc) and they serve (included in room rate) a genuinely good breakfast. We stumbled across them thanks to an online deal and I wanted to stay a week just to soak up the place (and have their mexican hot chocolate and housemade donuts each evening by the fireplace!)

2- Our client (think major coffee company) suggested we have dinner at the new hot restaurant in town - Tom Douglas' SeaTown Snack Bar (http://tomdouglas.com/blog/2010/08/our- ... r-is-open/) and it was great with the crab dishes the real stars.