Bluetooth and Brioche: Seattlest takes 5th Avenue

You know that five year-old Nokia candy bar we’ve been lugging around? Shocking, but it’s not Bluetooth-enabled!

We learned this at a Bluetooth demo yesterday at the Olympic Hotel, which featured an open bar and some crazy-ass gadgets

A cable-free printer? Shut UP! A Bluetooth stethoscope? Paging Dr. Bailey...

The surfeit of iPod adapters (isn’t someone at Apple working on this?) brought to mind a very Cartesian question: If you’re listening to an iPod in the forest, but no one can tell because you’re wearing a wireless headset instead of iconic white earbuds, do you really exist?

To better ponder this conundrum, we ambled over to Belle Epicurean, a faux-French place (in the best way) that is so upper 5th Avenue that you’d swear it had been there forever.

Vraiment, Carolyn Ferguson open the shop in the Olympic in November, though you may remember her brioche buns from the Columbia City Farmer’s Market and Pike Place. Seattlest had the twice-baked croissant, a crisp, buttery number that is taken out of the oven, kissed (OK, slathered) with almond paste, and baked again for about ten minutes.

Heaven.

Sitting in the window sipping cafe au lait, plastic earpieces suddenly seemed déclassé. We went next door to Luly Yang and immediately found the alternative: tiaras. They’re are the hands-free headsets for people for people who don’t take calls, but keep their hands free for other things... like cocktails, or flaky pastry.