[Quark]

I can't find the darn thing: I want to add this place my freind Sarah and I found in Cashmere today, and I'll move this post once it's located: Lucy's, on Aplets Way a block north of the Aplet & Cotlet Factory and Gift Shop (I finally bagged the Aplets & Cotlets Factory today!). Lucy's is a hole-in-the-wall mexican cafe, and no one speaks English there. Typical of these wonderful authenic places, you just walk in, check out the hand-written choices on the board, still have no idea what you want, and end up pointing to the Speciale, answer the question, "what meat?" then sit back and wait for manna to arrive. My tostada held out until the second-to-last bite, when there was major slope failure on the pile of beef, avocado, lettuce, tomato and cilantro. It fell all over the place. It was great. Open til 9 PM (Sunday hours are posted twice, conflicting information). Damn, it's good food! And what a great little town! I've never been beyond Rusty's Drive-In. what a mistake that has been. A 10 year long mistake!

[jimmymac]

The most recent one was "Best Post-Hike Grub".

[Allison]

The Food Thread Oh, here's another tip: Kabob Something or Other. It's Pakistani, on Greenwood just north of 81st on the west side of the street, wedged in between little grocery store and Teriyaki burger place. It's a little lacking in ambience and the food's not dirt cheap, but it is damn good.

[Yet]

Have any of you stopped at the bakery shop on Highway 2 called Bakery? They have the best eclairs!

[Get Out and Go]

Hey Quark, Lucy Tacos is practically across the street from where I teach, at Vale Elementary in Cashmere. In fact, I've had the owners' children in my classes. FYI, the more popular Mexican restaurant in Cashmere would be Camino Real, on Hwy2, heading west. And Country Boy's BBQ is a big hit, just across the bridge on the Aplets Way exit, but it's not open Sundays.

[Quark]

Wow, cool! Lucy's would be more popular if it were on Hwy 2, but I sorta like it where it is. Tell me: There's a series of turn of the century high school graduate photos posted on the window of an insurance company downtown Cashmere, and another of the high school with that pointy mountain in the background. Was the original high school located where your campus is? There's another old building with a new facade nearer downtown with the same pointy mountain in the background, but it doesn't quite match. Also - what's the deal about Cottage Row? Who were the wealthy in Cashmere back then - agriculture I assume...? What a wonderful town! Do you feel lucky to live there?

[kiliki]

Marylou, it's the Kabob House. It used to be better before the original owners moved to Renton and started a new place.

[Get Out and Go]

I'm not much on the history of the area as I've only been here 11 years, born in Port Angeles, but spent more of my childhood in Portland. And although I teach in Cashmere, I live in Leavenworth. Pointy mountains on buildings in Cashmere would more than likely be none other than Mt. Cashmere, which is framed by the main street in downtown. Interesting note on the street names is that 5 years the 2 principal streets were renamed Aplets Way and Cotlets Way. Aplets and Cotlets had threatened to relocate to Leavenworth, but were enticed to stay with part of the deal being the renaming....True Story.

[Allison]

Had dinner at the Wild Ginger last night. I used to go from time to time when it was over on Western, and it was veeerrry good back then. So anyway, my friend R and I had Satay (one good one bad), Hot and Sour Soup (too much stuff in it) some kind of seared tuna (good, but the dipping sauce stuff was icky), some kind of chicken (terrible) another kind of "Burmese pork curry" (inedible) and some green bean thing (good). The after eating a bit or two of everything (reason we ordered so much food was because we'd get a bad dish and think we just ordered the wrong thing, silly, I know) we got some kind of coffee drink (tepid). Total bill $174. I'll never go there again, the food just was not good.

[Malachai Constant]

yeah, it used to be good but then it got trendy, a friend saw Bill Gates and Locke there once and we saw Jeeter there when the Yankees were in town it sux now I'm afraid

[kiliki]

You can get WAY better in the ID-Tamarind Tree, Malay Satay Hut, Seven Stars Pepper-for about an eighth of the price. THe Szechuan Crab at Seven Stars Pepper blows anything Wild Ginger has out of the water.

[Red Squatch]

[Allison]

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[sarbar]