Delaurenti Specialty Food & Wine

I love this place, such a cool store for high quality food items. Great for snacks to take hiking or maybe just back to your hotel. The employees are always really friendly and helpful. Great pastries and I love the pizza! I like grabbing coffee here since some of the coffee shops around Pike Place can be ridiculously busy.

There's some reputed spots in the market that are overrated and there's some that really are that good. DeLaurenti is very fortunately one of the latter. Fantastic shop filled with culinary treasures, from wine to cheese to chocolate to olive oil, they have so many awesome items to buy. They also have some great sandwiches to takeout, along with pizza is you're looking for something quick to eat. Admittedly, the shop can be pricey, but quality isn't cheap and I'm much happier that they err on the side of pricey high quality selection than lowering the quality of their goods. My only complaint is that 5 pm is much too early to close for locals who want to pick something up after work, but Pike Place really isn't much of a night market so it's understandable. If you're out of town visiting, this is one shop that I wouldn't miss.