Went out to lunch with my sister’s former step-son Dan today. We go out to lunch about once a month. I drive over to his place in Greenlake/N. Seattle from Bellevue, pick him up and we have lunch around 2 PM to avoid the lunch rush.
Last week they started a $3.50 toll each way on the 520 bridge between Bellevue and Seattle. $7 for the trip is a bit steeper than what I am used to. It is $10 for those without a pre-paid RFID pass. The good news is that traffic is really light—although one guy still had to drive across the bridge side-by-side with the slowest car on the road.
I had a Groupon voucher for $35 worth of pizza at Tommy’s in Northgate. We got there around 2:15. It turned out they did not officially open until 4. Took 45 minutes for our pizza and it was a take-out place with no indoor dining, so we ate outside at a table. It was sunny for most of our wait. The pizza was hot and delicious with lots of meat on it.
Tommy was in the process of selling the place to two young guys about 20 years old. He had bought it for a friend that promptly bailed out on the business. Tommy was stuck commuting from Bremerton to N. Seattle for 6 months before he found these two guys willing to take over the place. He was a nice guy and it is a great opportunity for the young men to get an early start on owning a restaurant. The pizza was excellent. I hope they make it work. Their chances seem good—they are the only pizza place around in the middle of a large well-established residential neighborhood.
I am grateful for sunshine, great pizza, light traffic, leftover pizza, chicken wings and cinnamon bread.
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