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Both Ways Cafe

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4922 S. Genessee St. Seattle, WA 98118

206-722-5799 

 

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  • American
    $
    All Major Credit Cards
  • Kid Friendly, Patio/Sidewalk Dining, Takeout
    Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch
    Beer/Wine
  • Not Accepted
    Street
Description

When it comes to this wood-paneled nook, it's best if you know what you're in for: Americana breakfasts, a darn good cup of joe, and a decent place to plant your rear and read the paper while kibitzing with other Seward Parkians. The cooks bake their own pastries, producing biscuits that flake on contact and cinnamon rolls that, when warm from the oven, can produce a sensation akin to ecstasy, only with frosting. Caveat: Dinners and lunches are hit-and-mostly-miss.







  • 2007 | Best Breakfast Biscuits

    Some come to Both Ways Cafe for the cinnamon rolls. Some come for that scuffed-wood, post-hippie vibe. I go for the biscuits. As anyone from the South or Midwest will tell you, biscuit making is a simple art to master, which is why it's so shocking that no one on the West Coast can make a proper one. Except Dick Wall, owner and head baker of Both Ways Cafe, at the eastern end of Genesee. Wall knows a biscuit shouldn't be big and puffy, nor dense and oily. Flaky--that texture you get... More »

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  • Every which way

    Every which way

    | Wed, November 01, 2000

    AH, THE FUNKY, foolish, fickle world of Seattle restaurants. Not eight months ago, I reviewed two Lakewood neighborhood joints, Laughing Dog and the En Route Cafe. The former has since changed management (and improved its pastries, I'm happy to re... More »

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