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Seattlest has a favorite cookie. And we'd like to tell you all about it.
Until we started writing this post, there was a lot about Specialty's Café & Bakery that we didn't know. First, that it's not a local company. Second, that there are three locations in the general Seattle area (we only knew about two: one downtown, and one in Bellevue Square [probably the best reason to go to Bellevue Square]). Third, that you can place orders online for delivery or pickup.
Regardless of the fact that Specialty's is based in San Francisco, not Seattle, this is Seattle's best cookie. Honestly. They bake well over a dozen varieties of cookie all day every day, so at least one variety is fresh from the oven. The last time we had these cookies, our friend got a warm Peanut Butter Chocolate cookie that melted at the briefest introduction to our lips. (We got a Russian Tea Cake that paled in comparison, but was still nutty and almondy and pretty damn delicious.)
Other favories are the Black & White Cookie, the Oatmeal Raisin Cookie, and the Chocolate Chip Cookie (which comes in two versions: Milk and Semi-Sweet). We know a guy who likes the Wheatgerm Chocolate Chip Cookie, but it reminds us too much of our childhood experiences with the "no-thank-you bite" (and not the good ones, either).
They also, apparently, do café things like soup and sandwiches. We can't tell you about them because we've only been in for the cookies, but we'd imagine they're very good. Very very good. They do bake their own bread, after all.
Go. Just go. We'll be over here, drooling.
Seattle
1023 3rd Avenue (at Spring), 6am-6pm
505 5th Avenue, South (at Union Station, south of Jackson St.), 6am-6pm
Bellevue
126 Bellevue Square, Monday - Saturday 9:30 AM - 9:30 PM, Sundays 11AM - 7 PM
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I can attest to the equally dreamy goodness of their sandwiches. I used to work at 3rd and Columbia, and ate there all the time. When my office moved, the things I missed most were Specialty's and Mae Phim (best lunctime Thai in town, also missed for its tiny and fast-paced, feels-like-NYC atmosphere). Now that I work on the eastside (sigh), I occasionally try to make it over to the one in Bellevue Square mall but that place just scares the bejesus out of me.
I know -- you need a cookie just for getting into Bellevue Square, then a cookie just for being there, and then a cookie so you can make it out. It's tough.
Their Meatloaf is so good. Boy do I miss working down there!