| 14 Carrot Cafe | |
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| Restaurant information | |
| Established | 1977 |
| Food type | American |
| Street address | 2305 Eastlake Ave E |
| City | Seattle |
| County | King |
| State | Washington |
| Postal/ZIP Code | 98102 |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 47°38′24″N122°19′34″W / 47.639922°N 122.326052°W |
14 Carrot Cafe is a restaurant in Seattle's Eastlake neighborhood, in the U.S. state of Washington. [1] [2] It opened in 1977.
14 Carrot Cafe is a family-operated restaurant serving American cuisine [3] for breakfast and lunch in the Hines Public Market Building on Eastlake Avenue, near the intersection with East Lynn Street, [4] in Seattle's Eastlake neighborhood. [5] The Infatuation's Aimee Rizzo has described 14 Carrot Cafe as a diner and a greasy spoon that is "charming in a nothing's-been-updated-since-1977 kind of way, based on the old photo collages, vintage dining tables, and coin-operated Runts dispensers that definitely nobody uses". [6] The menu has included biscuits and gravy, cinnamon rolls, egg dishes, "Tahitian" French toast with tahini, [7] crab cake benedicts, hash browns, carrot cake and carrot pancakes, as well as mimosas [6] and carrot juice. [5]
The restaurant opened in 1977. [5] In 2009, 14 Carrot Cafe hosted the street food startup Tako Truk. [8] [9]
The Not for Tourists Guide to Seattle says of 14 Carrot Cafe: "Typical breakfast fare that's, well, typical. Popular anyway." [10] 14 Carrot Cafe was included in USA Today 's 2017 list of Seattle's ten best cafes. [11]
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