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Hi everyone! 😊 I’m thinking about starting a small home-style Pakistani food service near Lynnwood and wanted to see if there’s interest in the area before I get started. I’m considering offering freshly cooked Pakistani dishes such as: 🍗 Chicken Karahi 🍚 Chicken Biryani 🍚 Chicken Pulao 🥘 Karahi 🥙 Seekh Kebab 🥣 Haleem The idea would be fresh, home-style Pakistani food made in small batches , available through pre-orders rather than a full-time restaurant. I’m also considering promoting the menu through social media and Facebook Marketplace , with local pickup near Lynnwood. I’d love to know what Pakistani dishes you’d be most excited to order, whether you’d prefer individual portions or family-size meals, how often you’d realistically order (weekly, occasionally, or just for special occasions), and if there’s a particular Pakistani dish you miss and would love to find locally. I’m just trying to understand whether there’s enough interest to make this idea worthwhile. 😊 Thanks so much! ❤️

Lifelong Bellevue resident. Never imagined potentially seeing a day without the Freeman family in this town. https://downtownbellevue.com/2026/08/28/freeman-family-explore-sale-bellevue-collection/

Any recommendations ? We have been to the coaster , bumpys and TK so far.

https://preview.redd.it/tg1jw1tmu7mh1.png?width=385&format=png&auto=webp&s=aef578087f047043af2008c199a160b0118255ba Best thing that has ever happened in my life. Here is what was posted in the other reddit. Seattle has spent years conducting an expensive experiment in what happens when a city government treats basic public order as an ideological inconvenience. The results are not particularly mysterious. Residents deal with open drug use, chronic property crime, public disorder, prostitution, vandalism, repeat offenders, delayed police responses, and neighborhoods that periodically deteriorate until conditions become so embarrassing that City Hall announces another initiative to fix the problem it spent years allowing to grow. Then everyone is supposed to applaud the initiative. This is the fundamental problem with Seattle leadership. The city has confused announcing policies with governing. A functioning government does not merely issue statements after shootings, create another task force after a neighborhood becomes intolerable, or offer grants to businesses after criminals smash their windows. It prevents predictable problems from becoming permanent features of daily life. Seattle instead seems to have created a system in which ordinary residents are expected to tolerate disorder while government endlessly debates the proper terminology for describing it. Mayor Katie Wilson deserves substantial criticism for continuing this political culture. The mayor inherited serious problems, but that does not relieve her of responsibility for what happens under her administration. A mayor is not elected merely to sympathize with problems. She is elected to solve them. Seattle residents should be able to ask some extraordinarily basic questions. If somebody repeatedly breaks the law, will there be consequences? If a business is repeatedly vandalized, will anyone stop the offender rather than simply help the owner replace the window? If residents repeatedly report criminal activity at the same location, will the city actually address the location? If someone calls the police, will an officer arrive while the problem still exists? These should not be controversial questions. Yet in Seattle, asking for ordinary law enforcement is frequently treated as though one has proposed martial law. The city has spent years attempting to balance enforcement against an ever expanding collection of political sensitivities. The predictable result is that enforcement becomes hesitant, responsibility becomes dispersed, and nobody seems accountable when conditions deteriorate. Police blame staffing. Politicians blame previous administrations. City departments blame one another. Activists blame enforcement itself. Prosecutors point toward limitations elsewhere in the system. And the person whose car window was smashed gets another case number. That is not governance. Seattle's handling of property crime illustrates the problem particularly well. Numerous crimes can be routed through online reporting rather than receiving an immediate officer response. Online reporting obviously has legitimate uses, but when residents repeatedly experience theft, vehicle break ins, vandalism, burglary, or other property crimes, the distinction between documenting crime and policing crime becomes rather important. A police report is not a deterrent. A case number does not stop somebody from returning tomorrow. Meanwhile, Seattle businesses are encouraged to install more security, repair damage, and apply for assistance programs. Again, helping victims recover is reasonable. But there is something deeply backwards about a government becoming increasingly proficient at helping citizens live with crime rather than becoming proficient at stopping criminals from committing it. The same pattern appears when particular neighborhoods deteriorate. Aurora Avenue experiences shootings, prostitution, exploitation, and persistent disorder. Eventually city officials announce intensified enforcement. Areas around 12th and Jackson experience open drug activity and chronic public safety problems. Eventually city officials announce another concentrated response. The obvious question is why these situations repeatedly have to reach the point of crisis before Seattle discovers that laws should be enforced. Seattle government increasingly resembles a homeowner who ignores water pouring through the ceiling for three years and then holds a press conference announcing the purchase of a bucket. Mayor Wilson should be judged according to whether she breaks this cycle. Removing former Police Chief Shon Barnes was not inherently a mistake. There were legitimate questions about his leadership and whether he was providing the consistent, visible direction Seattle needed. A city does not owe an ineffective police chief job security simply for the sake of institutional continuity. The real test for Wilson is what comes next. If Seattle appoints another police chief but continues imposing the same political constraints, tolerating the same chronic disorder, producing the same bureaucratic excuses, and refusing to consistently impose consequences on repeat offenders, changing chiefs accomplishes nothing. You can replace the captain as many times as you like. If City Hall keeps drilling holes in the boat, it will still sink. This is where Seattle's progressive political culture deserves scrutiny. Compassion has gradually been redefined to mean permitting destructive behavior. Accountability is portrayed as cruelty. Enforcement is treated with suspicion. Standards are endlessly qualified. And ordinary citizens are expected to absorb the consequences. But allowing somebody to openly destroy himself with drugs on a sidewalk is not compassion. Allowing repeat offenders to victimize businesses is not compassion. Allowing women involved in prostitution to remain surrounded by violent pimps and traffickers is not compassion. Allowing mentally ill people to deteriorate publicly while assuring ourselves that we are respecting their autonomy is not compassion. And allowing working people to live around disorder because political leaders are frightened of appearing insufficiently progressive certainly is not compassion. A civilized city requires both mercy and order. Without mercy, government becomes oppressive. Without order, government becomes useless. Seattle has spent far too much time pretending that maintaining order is somehow incompatible with being humane. The people paying Seattle's taxes should expect more. They should expect sidewalks that belong to the public. Parks that families can comfortably use. Businesses that are not treated as unlimited sources of merchandise for thieves. Neighborhoods where hearing gunfire does not become routine. Police officers who are allowed to enforce the law. Prosecutors willing to pursue repeat offenders. Treatment for people genuinely willing to accept help. And consequences for people who repeatedly prey upon everybody else. None of this is radical. For most of American history it would have been understood as the bare minimum expected of municipal government. Seattle's leadership problem is ultimately one of priorities. City government has become extraordinarily sophisticated at explaining why problems are complicated and remarkably unimpressive at making those problems disappear. Residents do not need another slogan. They do not need another study. They do not need another temporary enforcement emphasis that disappears when political attention moves elsewhere. They need a government willing to govern. Mayor Katie Wilson has an opportunity to prove that she can provide that leadership. But if Seattle continues cycling through police chiefs, public safety programs, emergency responses, neighborhood initiatives, and carefully worded promises while residents continue confronting the same disorder, then the conclusion becomes difficult to avoid. Seattle does not primarily suffer from a lack of resources. It suffers from a lack of political will. And until its leaders become more concerned with maintaining a safe and orderly city than with satisfying the ideological expectations of Seattle's progressive political establishment, residents should expect more of the same.

We’ve been going to Chengdu Taste but we want to branch out a bit. We miss Seven Stars Peppers. And we’ve abandoned Sichuanese Cuisine… they had tasty food, but the cleanliness of their restaurant and kitchen made us nervous. What are your current go-to takeout spots?

Does anyone remember a place somewhere around here in the 80’s called something like Red Spot Water Park? I vaguely remember it as a kid but I can’t fine anything about it ever existing…

Please delete if not allowed. Hello, my wife and I just recently moved to Bellevue a couple of weeks ago and our cat got out on 08/26/2026 and was last seen around 129th Pl SE of the Factoria area. Her name is Luna and is extremely friendly but very skittish. She has a very high pitched meow almost like a soft squeaking door and chirps more than anything. She may be injured so please be careful if you find her and get her to come to you. She also is not a fan of being held. If you see her please message me asap. My wife and I are worried sick and miss her dearly. Ive scoured the immediate area, put up, and handed out flyers but have had no luck finding her. Please keep an eye out for her, we’d truly appreciate it.

I made a post showing my list of food places and want to thank everyone for their help. I’m having a hard time picking where to eat for my last night here and want it to be somewhat special on Saturday. Where I live, there’s plenty of sushi so I’m not interested in that. I’ve got Altura in mind if that helps with my budget range, but I don’t know if it’s worth it. Other ideas I had were Matt in the market. I’ve been using the lime bikes so I can travel a good ways and am willing to take a 20-30 minute uber from the Edgewater where I’m staying.

I'm going to an event soon to Climate Pledge and I've never driven there myself. How does spot hero exactly work? Even if I buy a $90 spot I'm worried it'll still fill up by the time I get there. Do they reserve the spots with your name? Is it guaranteed? My other big question is which garages would you guys recommend? Mainly for safety as I really don't want to have to deal with a smashed window after the show lol

I'm going to an event soon to Climate Pledge and I've never driven there myself. How does spot hero exactly work? Even if I buy a $90 spot I'm worried it'll still fill up by the time I get there. Do they reserve the spots with your name? Is it guaranteed? My other big question is which garages would you guys recommend? Mainly for safety as I really don't want to have to deal with a smashed window after the show lol