Miss Cafe – Home of the Pide

****NOTE: This review was done prior to the Covid-19 outbreak. Of course, things are much different at the moment, but we hope things will get back to normal soon and hope you will continue to support these local businesses****

Miss Cafe in Pike Place Market

Recommended by: While walking to pick up some take out from Pasta Casalinga, I noticed Miss Cafe and remembered a co-worker mentioned that they had “surfboard pizzas” there.

Description on the Miss Cafe’s website: We offer a home-style, Turkish food experience in the heart of Seattle. Our shop is filled with a variety of delicious Pide, delectable desserts and healthy platters. Our signature Turkish Pizzas are baked to perfection and topped with fresh ground beef and vegetables.

Neighborhood/Type:  Downtown / Pike Place Market

Address: 1523 1st Ave, Seattle, WA 98101

What we ate/drank:  Doner Meat & Cheese Pide

Comments: Pide (Pronounced Pee- Day) is a flat bread with toppings baked in an oven. Pide and its various varieties are wide spread throughout Turkey, but the only other place in Seattle besides Cafe Miss that we’re aware of that serves pide is Cafe Turko. 

Traditional pide as well as the pide served at Miss Cafe is indeed shaped like a surfboard. The other difference from your normal pizza is there’s no tomato sauce.

I believe the location Miss Cafe is in, which is connected to Pike Place Market, used to be a Cajun restaurant.  We ordered the Donor meat and cheese pide, which comes with beef and lamb gyro meat, mozzarella cheese and tomato.   It comes with a squeeze bottle of tzatiki sauce. It went well with the pide, but honestly the pide was delicious without the sauce.

The decor is nothing fancy. It’s simple with some booth seating and some outdoor benches and tables

Besides various types of pide(Vegan, pepperoni, ground beef, chicken and more), they also have various salads, meatballs, kebab, and grilled chicken. There are a couple of other dishes that caught our eye that we’ll definitely try the next time we visit Miss Cafe. One is the Lahmacun which s a flatbread with ground beef and a mix of onion, garlic, green and red peppers, and tomato. The other was the Turkish Dumplings-spiced ground beef, onion with butter sauce and yogurt.

On this occasion we were only able to have a pide, but we’ll definitely be back to try some of their other dishes. It’s also another place we can take out of town visitors when visiting Pike Place Market along with Storyville Coffee Co , Alibi Room, White Horse Trading, Maxmillien, Radiator Whiskey, Country Dough, Chan, Le Pichet, Matt’s in the Market, The Pink Door.

Ratings:

Atmosphere: 4.00

Service: 4.75

Food/Drinks: 4.50

Bang for the Buck: 4.50

Overall: 4.40

Locals Only Factor: “Locals Only” grading-We’ll assign a grading as to how “local” a place is.

• • Well known or Touristy. Most locals don’t go there unless they have business dinners or visitors in town.
  • Most locals know about it
  • Locals “in the know” know about it
  • Only those who live close by know about it.
  • You’re in on the secret. Don’t tell anybody!

Servers recommendations to visit in the future:  Cafe Turko

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