For my last day in Seattle, we went on another team lunch. This time, we were back at Mill Creek Town Center, dining at Boston’s Gourmet Pizza. It’s a chain of restaurants, seems to be a sports bar type place, that has tons of different gourmet pizzas, along with sandwiches, salads, and entrees. Man, was this place huge! There’s the main dining area, which is huge, and then the bar area, which is just as huge. I wonder if this place ever gets packed. I was going to be flying all day, so I wanted something light. So I got the Boston’s Chicken Salad. It came with grilled chicken breast, cheddar and mozzarella, smoked bacon, carrots, pecans, and is topped with sliced eggs and tomatoes. I nixed the pecans and got oil and vinegar dressing. While the salad part was ok, the dressing was not interesting at all. So it ended up being a fairly bland salad. And sadly, the chicken was also pretty blah. I can’t believe that it was actually grilled. It tasted like it was boiled and then they grilled it last minute to warm it up and make it look grilled. It was such boring chicken! It was such a stark contrast from that amazing piece of chicken that was on my salad at Red Robin. It’s a shame really. The innards of this salad were great. Had they had better dressing and good chicken, it would have probably been quite good. The piece of garlic bread it came with was pretty good. The service was good though. Maybe not so much good, but certainlyl enthusiastic. For it being noon, the girl was freakishly chipper.

When I read that there was a cambodian restaurant around, I had to try it. I wasn’t sure what it would be like, but it had excellent reviews. It’s tucked away in a tiny strip mall near the Lynnwood convention center. The place is pretty big, but it was pretty deserted that night.
I started off with the Phnom Phen soup. I’m not sure what the broth was, but it felt like a light seafood based pho. It had shrimp, squid, and fish cake. The fish cake tasted weird, so I skipped those. The squid was amazing and the shrimp was ok. The broth was slightly bland, so once I added a little sriracha to it, it was perfect. I wanted more when I was done!
I had to try one of their banh mi type sandwiches because it seems to be their specialty. I got one with beef. This was ok, I wasn’t to crazy about it. They bake their bread, which was super crusty and amazing. Props for the homemade bread. But instead of the “pate” type stuff that’s typically in these, it was slathered with mayo. It was just too much mayo. The meat was also a bit tough.

For lunch one day, we went to get “the soup”. M and B just call it “the soup”. And you can get said soup at Azul. It’s a tequila lounge and restaurant, and a bit more upscale. Let’s call the food mexican-esque. So this soup is actually called pollo caldo. And it’s actually not wrong to call it “the soup” as it’s the only soup dish they have in the entire restaurant. It is a mexican soup with chicken, vegetables, rice, avocado and pico de gallo. Some of these vegetables include carrots and zucchini. It is spicy, but not too much so. And it looks like a little bowl, but it will fill you up. It’s a hearty soup, and I’ve become a big fan of it. Give me more of “the soup” please.