Country Girl and I visited two neighboring Greenlake eateries, Mio Sushi and Cake Envy this week. We'd been to Cake Envy once previously and this was our first trip to Mio.
Mio is a NW chain with a handful of restaurants in Washington and Oregon. The Greenlake location is in a space formerly occupied by an Italian place we tried once and enjoyed. Despite it's less than stellar reviews on Yelp, we decided to give Mio a go for happy hour last week. Two rolls, a couple of appetizers and a big Sapporo later, we were both glad we did. Very nice service and tasty food. Only sad news was no nigori sakes on the happy hour menu. Likely to make another trip there.
Just next door is Cake Envy, a specialty cake and cupcake shop. They also make wee, mini-sized cupcakes which are very nice. We first came here as a result of an online coupon I bought. In addition to wee cupcakes, they also serve sparkling wine. They make an excellent pairing. To sweeten the deal even more (so clever!), they have a daily happy hour where everything is half off and cupcakes are buy two get one free.
We went a show at Neumos later that evening and on the way stopped by Unicorn on Capital Hill for a beer. It's very spacious with two levels and an interesting, rather ornate interior. Lots of bright, stripped painting with circus themed knick knacks affixed throughout. Loads of booth seating to go along with tables. Beer selection is sorely lacking though the food menu looks, interesting (unicorn balls? oh my). They music played while we were there was good, albeit quite loud. Big upside is the 6 or so pinball machines and handful of retro arcade games.
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