Market sights in Seattle
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Pike Place Market
The fishy-smelling, tourist-thronged heart of downtown Seattle is Pike Place Market. It's good theater, though claustrophobically crowded. The Main and North Arcades are the most popular areas, with bellowing fishmongers, arts and crafts, and precarious stacks of gemlike fruits and vegetables.
Tiny shops of all descriptions fill the lower levels of the market. It is open all week, though individual shop/stall hours do vary. Try a weekday morning if you don't like crowds.
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Corner & Sanitary Market Buildings
Across Pike Place from the Main Arcade are the 1912 Corner Market Building and the Sanitary Market Building, so named because they were the first of the market buildings in which live animals were prohibited. It’s now a maze of ethnic groceries and great little eateries, including the Three Girls Bakery, which has a sit-down area (it’s always packed) and a take-out window with some of the best breads and sandwiches around. This is also the home of Left Bank Books, an excellent source for all your radical reading needs.
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Viet Hoa
The Viet Hoa market (look for the ‘Chinatown Market-Seafood & Meat’ sign) has a greengrocer in one building and a fish and meat market in the other. Both display foods and cuts of meat you may have never seen before. The big tank of live turtles at the door and the buckets of fish that look like they’re one splash away from coming back to life assure you that this market carries only the freshest ingredients.
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South Arcade
If you continue past DeLaurenti’s, you’ll come into the South Arcade, the Pike Place Market’s newest wing, home to upscale shops and the lively Pike Place Pub & Brewery.
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