eat.shop seattle: the indispensable guide to stylishly unique, locally owned eating and shopping (eat.shop guides) [Paperback]

Kaie Wellman (Author)

Book Description

Series: eat.shop guides | Publication Date: April 1, 2007

With a modern layout and luscious photographs, these city-specific guides unearth distinctive, locally owned and operated eating and shopping destinations. Designed for both locals and tourists, these indispensable tools feature listings to more than 90 spectacularly original businesses that encapsulate the core character of each given city. Ideally sized for backpacks or purses, each guide also features easy-to-read maps and hotel suggestions.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"What makes these . . . guides stand out is their outstanding and wide-ranging collection of shops and restaurants."  —The Boston Globe

"A new kind of city guide—one loaded with photos and graphics . . . the antithesis of the kitchen-sink variety of travel books."  —Chicago magazine

"As appealing to read as they are informative."  —Portland Tribune

"The eat.shop guides are nearly biblical in their coverage of where to go and what to do."  —papierdoll.com

About the Author

Kaie Wellman is the founder of Cabazon Books, the publisher of the eat.shop guides series. She is the author of eat.shop.austin and eat.shop.san francisco and an award-winning graphic designer. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Cabazon Books; 3rd edition (April 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0976653494
• ISBN-13: 978-0976653493
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 5.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,964,380 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A great, compact reference., July 20, 2007

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This review is from: eat.shop seattle: the indispensable guide to stylishly unique, locally owned eating and shopping (eat.shop guides) (Paperback)

When I found out in April that I would be moving to Seattle in August, I naturally started researching the city: looking at housing costs, learning the available options for public transportation, checking out the neighborhoods, etc., and bought a couple of travel guides to get an idea of what I can look forward to once I arrive. I was bit disappointed at the small number of restaurants and shops featured in these guides, especially when different travel guides started churning out the same names. Wanting a book devoted solely to restaurants and stores, but simultaneously wanting something less inclusive than a Zagat survey guide, I ordered this book, sight-unseen.

I am very pleased with it. It features 90 different businesses, which is, I think, a perfect number. Any more would be overwhelming, and any less would make you rethink your purchase. Each business has a two-page spread including pictures, shop owner information, business hours, payment options, and a paragraph describing the business, often with personal anecdotes. The neighborhood maps make it easy to get an idea of where everything is.

However, I do have two small problems with the guide:
1) The restaurant section provides cost estimates in the "$-$$$$" notation typical of travel guides. Usually, the $$$$ marking means that your meal will easily be over, say, $60 a person, but after searching every possible page that would contain the specific ranges the author is using, I can't find any such key. Checking the eat.shop.guide's website provided no further clues as to what I will be expected to pay once I commit to a restaurant and sit down for a meal.
2) The book is very poorly edited. Typos, misspellings, and general inconsistencies are found everywhere. For instance, at Green Leaf, is the "Soda Chanh Muoi" really a Pickled Lemondade Soda? Is the owner of the Capitol Hill shop "Fleurish" named Nisha or Neisha? This is, of course, not enough to render the book unusable, and is really only a small problem. Still, it's a little annoying.