ie an evening a morning and an afternoon, in that order) in Seattle

My friend Marta, who I met during a 10 day "callback"/workshop a year or two ago sent out an email yesterday announcing a west coast tour of her solo show. She's hitting the road soon with her brothers in tow and I offered to give them some of my ideas of what I would to do with their day in Sea-town.

Say you arrive into town right around dinner time. If had the money and I could stomach a bit of a wait I would head straight to the Kingfish Cafe, arguably my favorite restraunt in Seattle. Incredible soul food. I've heard their secret is this: bacon fat in almost everything. This makes for life changing fried chicken. Next door WAS the former site of The Little Theatre, an excellent little art movie house, but they've changed locations since the last time I was in town. Still you might want to check our their new space, because I hear it's beautiful.

If I had a little less money and less patience then I would find a parking spot and head straight to my favorite Seattle bar, Linda's Tavern. It's summer so you want to head straight to the back exit where there's a rustic and chilled back porch area. Order a pitcher or can of Rainier, the official beer of the Northwest("Where's your beer from?") and there's fried food options here too( not to the bacon fat yum-yum of Kingfish, but still tasty.) If you're even more broke you can begin by going to Mama's across the street which serves an alright slice and then cross back over to Linda's for a liquid refreshment and a game of pool. (This was my dinner routine often from 1996-2000. R.I.P.) If you met the right people you could hang out here all night, but there's plenty of other options up and down the Pike/Pine corridor:

• If you head out of Linda's and go to your right up the hill there's the impressive Egyptian theatre. Owned by Landmark Theatres and boasting an excellent retro look there's usually something interesting playing here.
• If you want to continue drinking, but desire a change of location, you need to go up the hill and over to Pike about two or three blocks where there's the legendary Comet Tavern. If you're in luck there will be a Mariners game on. If not there's pinball upstairs and you can always spend the evening perfecting throwing your tips into the bartender's can on the back shelf.
• If you want to end your drinking, just head to the bottom of the hill and make a stop at Bahahaus. I rarely drink coffee, but when I did I would have an iced Americano here. If you can sit outside where you'll have an excellent view of downtown Seattle and life on Capitol Hill.
• Theatre Schmeater is also right around here and if you're up for it they might be worth checking out. Ever since I left town they've been doing more and more interesting stuff including working closely with Denis Johnson, one of my favorite writers.
  
• All the way down the hill by the Pike Place Market, at the Market Theatre one of my favorite Seattle artists and solo performers, Matt Smith might be performing his show if you're there on a Friday. If so please check him out as he's hilarious.
  

In the morning whether you have a hangover or you're just hungry I highly recommend stopping at the Capitol Hill institution, Glo's. Depending on what day of the week it is there might also be a wait here too, but it's worth it for the hashbrowns and Hil's favorite the Eggs Benedict alone.

After breakfast you could continue to enjoy Capitol Hil by walking down Broadway, stopping by Bailey-Coy, and going to Volunteer Park. There's a water tower you can climb up for zero admission and get a great view of the city.

I'm not sure if you'll have time for much else, but Herbert would be remiss I think if I didn't mention going to see the shrunken heads in the Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe on the waterfront: 1001 Alaskan Way, Seattle, WA 98104. When anybody came to town back in the day this is where we took' em.

I hope this is helpful and for the rest of you folks thank you for indulging me as Rick, Jr. Seattlites past and present, permanent and temporary please add additional suggestions, corrections, and snide remarks below, please.