Wendy's Waffle Bar

Wendy's Waffle Bar

By Wendy Rose FillmanEducationSelf-Improvement
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  • 43. Seattle: City Series! what it's like growing up there, visiting do's and don't's, & recommendations

    Part 2 of a new segment I'm doing called the city series! I share what it was like growing up outside Seattle, all the different activities I would/would not recommend doing if you visit, and some restaurants and bars I'd recommend trying! Detailed list below:) Hope you enjoy!


    Seattle Recommendations:

    Sweets

    Ice Cream:

    Frankie & Joe’s - Ballard✔️

    Sweet Alchemy - Ballard and UVillage✔️

    Salt & Straw - Ballard and Cap Hill✔️

    Molly Moon’s - Wallingford and Cap Hill ✔️

    Donuts:

    Mighty O Donuts - Ballard, Wallingford and Cap Hill✔️

    Top pot - everywhere✔️

    Krispy Kreme✔️

    Miscellaneous:

    A La Mode Pies - Ballard and Phinney Ridge ✔️

    Hot Cakes - Ballard and Cap Hill✔️

    Midnight cookie co - Wallingford ✔️

    Hello Robin - UVillage and CapHill✔️ 

    Cupcake Royale - Ballard✔️

    Bluebird creamery - Phinney Ridge

    Full Tilt - White Center 


    Breweries

    Fremont Brewing - Fremont✔️

    Magnuson cafe & brewery - Wedgewood✔️

    Elysian - Cap Hill ✔️

    Optimism Brewery - Cap Hill

    Ravenna Brewing - Ravenna

    Avid Cider Company - North Bend


    Bars

    Pour Decisions - Downtown✔️

    Damn the Weather - Downtown✔️

    Tapster - South Lake Union✔️

    Flat Stick Golf Bar - South lake Union✔️

    Add-a-ball - Fremont✔️

    MBar - Downtown ✔️

    The Nest - Seattle 

    Montana- Cap Hill✔️ 

    Rose Temple - Cap Hill✔️

    King's Hardware - Ballard✔️

    Kangaroo and Kiwi - Ballard✔️

    Percy's - Ballard✔️

    Rachel’s Ginger Beer

    Knee-high stocking club (speakeasy) - cap hill

    The zoo (cash only, best of the dive bars) - east lake


    Sushi 

    Musashi’s - Wallingford✔️

    Moshi Moshi - Ballard✔️

    Wasabi Sushi - Belltown✔️

    I <3 Sushi - South Lake Union✔️

    Bamboo Sushi - University Village✔️

    Momiji - Broadway, $$

    Shiro’s - Belltown,$$$ 

    Sushi Kashiba - Downtown, $$$$


    Mexican 

    Taco Chukis - Cap Hill✔️


    Thai 

    Bangarak Market - Belltown✔️

    Mae Ploy - Ballard✔️


    Pizza 

    Dino’s - Cap Hill✔️

    Pagliacci - Wedgwood✔️


    Bakeries 

    Larsen’s Danish Bakery (ballard)✔️

    Tall Grass Bakery✔️

    The Flora Bakehouse✔️

    Macrina Bakery✔️

    Cafe Flora (Washington park arboretum) 

    The Flour Box (south seattle) 

    Farine Bakery (Redmond) 


    Coffee

    Cherry Street Coffee - Downtown and Cap Hill✔️ 

    Storyville Coffee - hidden in pike place✔️

    Fremont Coffee Company✔️ good vanilla latte

    Stone Way Cafe - Wallingford

    Van Gogh Coffeehouse✔️ best chai and vanilla latte 

    Ballard Coffee Company✔️

    Seattle Sunshine Coffee✔️

    Analog Coffee - Cap Hill✔️


    Activities:

    1. Golden Garden Park in Ballard 
    2. Gas Works Park in Wallingford/Fremont area 
    3. Magnuson Park in Magnuson
    4. Volunteer Park near Capitol Hill and Montlake 
    5. Discovery Park in Magnolia 
    6. Waterfront down by the pier and aquarium 
    7. Pike Place Market 
    8. Ballard Farmers Market 
    9. UDistrict Farmer’s Market 
    10. 36 min
    11. 42. San Francisco: City Series! first impressions, best iced vanilla latte review, and recommendations

      Hellloooo, today I share all my thoughts on San Francisco! First impressions, misconceptions, and all of the cafe/restaurant/park reviews! See below for the full list, hope you enjoy :)

      San Francisco 

      COFFEE / BAKERIES 

      • Red Bay Coffee✔️ iced vanilla latte (10/10) -> ferry building 
      • Ritual Coffee✔️ iced oat milk sweet latte (10/10) -> Haight Ashbury
      • Duboce Park Cafe✔️ egg sammy and iced oat milk vanilla latte (10/10) -> Duboce Park
      • Blue Bottle✔️ sweet iced latte (8/10) -> Hayes Valley 
      • La Boulangerie✔️ iced vanilla latte (6/10) -> Hayes Valley
      • SightGlass✔️iced vanilla latte (5/10) -> Divisadero
      • Wooden Coffee House✔️iced vanilla latte with whole milk? (3/10) -> Cole Valley
      • The Mill✔️egg in a hole toast(7/10), earl grey olive oil cake (10/10), iced syrup latte (5/10) -> Divisadero
      • Cafe Reveille✔️ iced vanilla latte with whole milk (3/10) -> Duboce Triangle
      • Jane the Bakery✔️iced sweet latte, chocolate chip toffee cookie, banana bread, and turkey/caramelized onion sandwich, $30 (9/10) -> 
        • Jane on Larkin
        • Jane on Fillmore
        • Fifty/fifty✔️iced vanilla latte (8/10) -> Lone Mountain
        • Stable Cafe -> the mission 
        • As Quoted -> Presidio Heights 
        • Andy Town Coffee Roasters -> Outer Richmond and Outer Sunset
        • Thorough Bread -> Castro
        • Cinderella Bakery
        • Cafe Trieste
        • Paris Baguette
        • Kantine
        • Tartine
        • BAGELS / BREAKFAST  

          • Shlock’s Bagels & Lox✔️ iced chai tea and cream cheese salt bagel (9/10) -> Divisadero
          • The Laundromat✔️ salt bagel (10/10) -> Outer Richmond
          • Fiddle Fig, russian hill - breakfast sandwiches
          • Cracked and Battered -> Marina 
          • AÇAÍ

            • Bowl’d
            • Palmetto superfoods
            • SALADS 

              • original Joe’s (Dungeness crab Louie)
              • DRINKS (and tapas)

                • Zeitgeist✔️Beer bar in Mission
                • The saloon - live blues bar in north beach
                • Smuggler’s Cove - Tiki Bar just north of Mission
                • Phone Booth - dive bar in Mission
                • 500 Club✔️dive bar in Mission
                • Arcana - natural wine bar with live music in Mission
                • NoPa✔️ gin & juice, lentil soup 
                • Phononbar✔️ summer summer summertime (8/10)
                • TrickDog✔️ scooby snack shot 
                • Lost Resort✔️
                • ABV
                • Red Window (live music every sat/sun 11-3) 
                • Little Red Window 
                • House of Shields 
                • Madrone’s (Motown Mondays!) 
                • Irvin street and 19th 
                • The View Lounge, for sunset, downtown
                • Arbor Patio, for wine, Hayes Valley 
                • SEAFOOD

                  • Scoma’s - fancy and $$$
                  • Hog Island Oyster Co. 
                  • Hook Fish✔️ fish tacos and fish&chips (8/10)
                  • MEXICAN 

                    • Nopalito
                    • Mission burritos✔️
                    • Lolo✔️ Valencia in the mission (10/10)
                    • ITALIAN 

                      • Square Pie Guys
                      • Original Joe’s
                      • Tony’s Pizza
                      • Casaro Osteria, Union street 
                      • Flour and Water - special occasions 
                      • JAPANESE

                        • Nora✔️ blazing glory (6/10)
                        • Tsunami✔️ papa San, volcano roll, spicy tuna (10/10)
                        • Marfuku - ramen 
                        • No Joe’s - Hayes valley, ramen 
                        • THAI 

                          • Mangrove Kitchen✔️chicken pad Thai 
                          • Farmhouse ✔️ chicken pad Thai 
                          • INDIAN 

                            • Dancing Yak (Nepalese)
                            • VIETNAMESE 

                              • PPQ
                              • Dragon Eats - bon mi
                              • BURMESE

                                • Burma Superstar 
                                • DESSERTS

                                  • salt and straw✔️ Hayes Valley
                                  • Hot cookie✔️Castro
                                  • Bi-Rite Creamery✔️Alamo Square 
                                  • Swenson’s 
                                  • Smitten Ice Cream✔️ the Mission 
                                  • ACTIVITIES

                                    • Dolores Park - great for a view of the city skyline, lots of people watching, get a mission burrito while you’re there
                                    • Headlands Lookout - best view of the Golden Gate Bridge/city
                                    • Golden Gate Park - bigger than Central Park
                                    • The Mission - Mexican/hipstery neighborhood with great food and bars, near Dolores park. Mission street and Valencia street are both awesome
                                    • North Beach - Italian neighborhood, very picturesque also great food/drinks
                                    • Alamo Square Park - good view, painted ladies from Full House
                                    • Hike up twin peaks for a good view
                                    • Bernal heights hill also a good view 
                                    • Lands end is like SFs version of discovery park in Seattle
                                    • Bonfire on ocean beach 
                                    • Devils slide trail in Pacifica - more of a chill walk than a hiking trail but pretty views and it’s like 20 mins from SF 
                                    • 43 min
                                    • 40. Quarter-Life Crisis: all panic, no disco

                                      Turning 25! Career changes, navigating adult friendships and romantic relationships, and changing your mind- all things I have been thinking about as I approach this next birthday. I also share 5 things I want to see myself do in this next year- hope you enjoy!

                                      Timestamps: 

                                      Introduction: 0:00 – 3:25

                                      Feeling lost in your career/switching fields: 3:25 -17:45ish

                                      Adult friendships: 17:50ish - 23:30ish

                                      5 Things I Want to Do in my 25th year: 23:35 – 29:57

                                      Discount Code –

                                      Use my code WENDYFILL20 on Pura Vida’s website for 20% off your order of jewelry today!

                                      Be sure to check out my YouTube channel(https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCubaJqsyuRTlFEaj22gudSg) and

                                      my Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/wendyrosefillman/).

                                      For business inquiries, email

                                      Podcast Music –

                                      Contact JP Heston

                                      Instagram: @jphestonmusic

                                      Website: www.jpheston.com

                                      Podcast Cover Art –

                                      Contact Sara Marie Bottaro

                                      Website: www.saramariebottaro.com

                                      30 min
                                    • 39. Running the Boston Marathon: my training and race day experience

                                      In this episode, I talk about my experience running the 2022 Boston Marathon as a fundraiser for Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation! Hope you enjoy!

                                      A life update no one asked for: 5:40 minute mark (ish)

                                      Applying to run the marathon: 9:40 min (ish?)

                                      My training process: 16 min

                                      Race day experience: 21 min

                                      Shoutout to all my donors! 49 minute mark

                                      Discount Code –

                                      Use my code WENDYFILL20 on Pura Vida’s website for 20% off your order of jewelry today!

                                      Be sure to check out my YouTube channel(https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCubaJqsyuRTlFEaj22gudSg) and

                                      my Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/wendyrosefillman/).

                                      For business inquiries, email

                                      Podcast Music –

                                      Contact JP Heston

                                      Instagram: @jphestonmusic

                                      Website: www.jpheston.com

                                      Podcast Cover Art –

                                      Contact Sara Marie Bottaro

                                      Website: www.saramariebottaro.com

                                      53 min
                                    • 38. new years resolutions | tips for setting/achieving them + mine for 2022

                                      Today, we talk about new year’s resolutions, tips for making and achieving realistic goals, and what mine are for 2022. I also share a journal excerpt from this time last year. I hope it helps as we reflect on this past year and get excited for the new one. Cheers!

                                      Discount Code –

                                      Use my code WENDYFILL20 on Pura Vida’s website for 20% off your order of jewelry today!

                                      Be sure to check out my YouTube channel(https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCubaJqsyuRTlFEaj22gudSg) and

                                      my Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/wendyrosefillman/).

                                      For business inquiries, email

                                      Podcast Music –

                                      Contact JP Heston

                                      Instagram: @jphestonmusic

                                      Website: www.jpheston.com

                                      Podcast Cover Art –

                                      Contact Sara Marie Bottaro

                                      Website: www.saramariebottaro.com

                                      29 min

                                    About Wendy's Waffle Bar

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                                    In this weekly podcast, hosted by Wendy, we disuss all aspects of life through the eyes of a 25 year old. From living on both coasts to navigating great loss at a young age to working on self-love ,…