Post pandemic I am finding it increasingly difficult to spend the three hours as I make my weekly pilgrimage to Bellevue for my child's classes. Libraries being closed on Sunday made finding a suitable spot to spend time especially challenging. In these weekly sojourns I have found this city of multi-million dollar houses a grim place. Notwithstanding the Rolls Royce or Porsche showrooms, much of the streets look like strips in New Jersey. Most of the Starbucks are extensions of grocery stores. The Seattle Starbucks even in the poorest of neighborhoods look luxurious in contrast. Every week I get disappointed in one cafe or another after being led by gloating Yelp reviews. Few places have sitting arrangements if you want to avoid the mall . But today it was the last nail in the coffin as I sit in Mercury's Coffee munching the big sugary blob they passed on as Almond Croissant. This is my favorite baked item that I have almost every week at various places (mostly from two places that has become my favorites in Seattle). Here I munch this abomination with absolute no crunch, the almond paste with no flavor but sweetness within a croissant about which the less said the better. Seriously, this is one of the best cafes in Bellevue they told me. Folks, you are spending a fortune to live here. I know your children are getting the best schooling in the world. But don't let the businesses hoodwink you just for being here. Life is too short to shortchange quality in everything but schools. Demand better. TC 230k: 15 YOE #seattle #bellevue
Nice to see the passion. You’ve convinced me to not move to Bellevue.
Y u still living in Bellevue then?
I am not.
Then y u care?
It is almost the same in every city that I’ve seen in the US. If it is a family-type of a neighborhood, it is boring AF. Why? Why can’t fun and drugless life exist in the same place?
Bellevue started going downhill when they demolished the Dairy Queen for the Bravern complex
More like going downhill when they built the Bravern with all those posh stores.
I live in Bellevue and love it, and regret each sojourn across I-90 to Seattle which has all the appeal of a cesspool. Some absolutely amazing restaurants here, decent parking, beautiful neighborhoods, lovely parks. Other cities like Kirkland, Issaquah are so much nicer and more appealing than Seattle. Oh and I love Mercury’s Coffee, their coffee, sandwiches, bakery items are some of the best I’ve had anywhere, and I am extremely well travelled. Me thinks you’d be better off in a Dunkin’ or IHOP.
Taste is subjective. So I can see that you may like Mercury's. Although attacking someone for such a subjective thing as 'taste' is childish, but I don't resent your slight on me being better off at Dunkin'. Actually I am. When I go to Denny's or Dunkin', I know exactly what I will be getting and I don't expect those to be comparable to Cafe Nouveau. However what I can't fathom is how an "extremely well travelled" person can regard Kirkland or Issaquah as 'city'. Nice? Probably. Appealing? Hmm! City? Sigh!! Granted they probably don't have IHOP or Dunkin'. What is not subjective is that there are things beyond not having IHOP or Dunkin' that make a place an appealing 'city'.
“Attacking”. Sensitive much? Taste is indeed subjective. You’re the asshat that came here taking a huge shit on the city I live in and love.
Mercury’s is amazing and there is a reason they are growing quickly/expanding and have long lines. The large location in Bellevue is their flagship and has the best baked items (made fresh there). Sounds like you came in with your mind made up about Bellevue. There are also many starbucks not in a grocery store in Bellevue.
I mean what do you expect from the city of cookie cutter multi-million dollar houses of the suburbs? Same deal in every other suburb in America
You know who makes a good almond croissant? Cafe Ladro
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