Where Did Anthony Bourdain Eat In Seattle?

Anthony Bourdain's Seattle meals are documented on broadcast twice, not guessed at. The No Reservations "Pacific Northwest" episode (Season 3, Episode 3, January 2007) took him to Pike Place Market, with stops at Beecher's Handmade Cheese, Piroshky Piroshky and Salumi. Parts Unknown (Season 10, Episode 7, first aired November 19, 2017) covered Taylor Shellfish Oyster Bar in Pioneer Square and the Pacific Inn Pub in Wallingford. Those five named places are the full list on the broadcast record, and this page names nothing beyond it.

The short answer is five Seattle places across two episodes: at Pike Place Market, Beecher's Handmade Cheese, Piroshky Piroshky and Salumi, filmed for No Reservations in 2007, and then Taylor Shellfish Oyster Bar in Pioneer Square and the Pacific Inn Pub in Wallingford for Parts Unknown in 2017. No other Seattle stop, dish or order is part of the broadcast record, so no responsible writeup should add one. The good news for visitors is that the Pike Place Market stops sit on routes a single guided walk covers.

The two episodes sit a decade apart and cover different parts of the city. The 2007 stops are Market counters and bakeries, including a cheesemaker working in view of the public. The 2017 stops are a Wallingford pub and an oyster bar in Pioneer Square. Anyone building a Bourdain-themed day in Seattle is really building two half-days: a Market morning and a cross-town evening.

The Market half is the easy one. Beecher's and Piroshky Piroshky still operate inside Pike Place Market, which is open 363 days a year, closed only on Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. A guided walk that moves through the Market's main arcade will put you within a few steps of both, alongside the fish throwers at Pike Place Fish and the produce stalls that have run down Pike Place since the market opened on August 17, 1907.

If the goal is simply to stand where the cameras stood and eat something in the same room, the bookable option that fits is the Chef Guided Food Tour of Pike Place Market, a two hour walk from the corner of 1st Ave and Pine Street, from $75 per person, rated 4.9 across 4,806 reviews. It serves Beecher's among its nine vendor stops, see the listing if the market morning is the half of the Bourdain record that matters most to you.

What Did Bourdain Eat At Pike Place Market On No Reservations?

The January 2007 "Pacific Northwest" episode of No Reservations took Bourdain through Pike Place Market with three named food stops: Beecher's Handmade Cheese, Piroshky Piroshky and Salumi. Beecher's has made cheese behind glass walls at its Pike Place flagship since 2003, and Piroshky Piroshky has baked at the Market since 1992, so both stops a visitor can still walk into today.

Of the three, Beecher's is the one most visitors already know by sight. The flagship's glass walled kitchen puts the cheesemaking in public view, which is exactly the kind of theater that reads well on television and works even better in person. The stall sits inside the Market's main arcade. Piroshky Piroshky has been baking Russian style pastries at Pike Place since 1992.

The Market's own guidance holds that mornings before noon are generally less crowded, and that is the window that gives you the most breathing room at bakery and cheese counters alike. Fresh produce and seafood sellers start at 7 a.m., and most of the Market runs until about 5 p.m., with the crafts market opening later at 11 a.m. Anyone retracing the No Reservations stops should treat it as a morning project.

The Salumi line in the table is deliberately cautious. The broadcast record names it as a 2007 stop, but this page only gives visiting detail for places its own sources cover, and inventing an address or hours would be exactly the kind of guess the record does not support. Name it, date it, and move on.

For a fuller treatment of the market stops themselves, the owning guide on this site is the Pike Place Market food guide to what to eat and where, which covers the stalls, the sit down options and the timing questions in more depth than a Bourdain page needs to.

Where Are Taylor Shellfish Oyster Bar And The Pacific Inn Pub?

Taylor Shellfish Oyster Bar is in Pioneer Square, south of Pike Place Market, and the Pacific Inn Pub is in Wallingford, north of Lake Union. The 2017 Parts Unknown episode visited both. Taylor Shellfish farms oysters in Puget Sound, Hood Canal and Willapa Bay and runs oyster bars in Seattle, while the Pacific Inn is a pub in Wallingford.

Geographically, this is the half of the Bourdain record that takes planning. Pioneer Square is south of Pike Place Market, and a King County Metro adult ride is $3.00. Wallingford sits north of Lake Union, also reachable by bus.

What the 2017 episode cannot give you is a guide. These are stops you reach on your own, which is the difference between the two episodes: 2007 gave Seattle a market walk a tourist can book, 2017 gave it a pair of stops you have to reach yourself. For the oyster side specifically, the site's guide to where to slurp oysters in Seattle is the owning page, with the counter by counter detail a Bourdain pilgrimage does not need repeated here.

That said, not every reader wants a fully self-guided afternoon, and a wet November day makes a covered, hosted format more appealing than a solo hunt for a pub door. When the 2017 mood is what you are chasing but the logistics of Pioneer Square and Wallingford feel like work, a downtown restaurant walk with drinks covers the same spirits and small plates instinct in one booked block.

Can You Walk The Bourdain Market Stops On A Guided Tour?

Yes, and the Market half of the record maps onto a guided walk almost exactly. The Chef Guided Food Tour of Pike Place Market runs two hours from the corner of 1st Ave and Pine Street, from $75 per person, rated 4.9 across 4,806 reviews, and its nine vendor stops include Beecher's Handmade Cheese. Hotel pickup is not included, but the route is the Market the 2007 episode filmed.

No guided walk on this site covers the 2017 pair, and no tour here is billed as a Bourdain tour: the honest framing is that the Market episode's stops sit on existing Market routes, and the Pioneer Square and Wallingford stops are self-guided. Within that honest frame, two other options earn a mention for readers whose interest in the show has widened into an interest in the city's food generally. The wider set of guides lives on Seattle Food Tours.

The seafood angle is the strongest. The 2017 episode's oyster bar stop is the clearest seafood link. The Seattle Seafood Tour: A Long Lunch of Market-Fresh Tastings runs two hours 15 minutes from the Market's north end on 1st Ave, from $119 per person, rated 4.7 across 40 reviews, and it is the roster's only seafood themed walk, eight seafood tastings across six restaurants.

The restaurant angle matters too, because the 2017 stops were a pub and an oyster bar rather than Market stalls. The Downtown Seattle Restaurant Tour with Drinks and Food runs two hours 30 minutes from a Pike Place Market north end start, then moves into downtown restaurants and bars, from $135 per person, rated 4.7 across 89 reviews, serving appetizers and drinks at places like the Rabbit Box, MARKET Seafood Eatery and Zig Zag Cafe. It is the closest bookable analog to the Parts Unknown format, a moving dinner with drinks, even though it does not visit the specific places the show filmed.

How Do You Build A Bourdain Day In Seattle Yourself?

A practical Bourdain day splits in two: a Market morning at Pike Place, hitting Beecher's and Piroshky Piroshky while the arcade is quiet before noon, then a southbound afternoon to Pioneer Square's oyster bar, with the Wallingford pub saved for an evening or a second day. Every leg is transit friendly, at $3.00 per adult ride on Metro buses or Link light rail, and a $6.00 regional day pass covers a day of hopping between all three neighborhoods.

Start early, because the Market rewards it. Pike Place's own guidance says mornings before noon are generally less crowded, breakfast and produce sellers open at 7 a.m., and the Bourdain stops sit in the busiest stretch of the arcade, so a morning arrival is the quieter option at both counters. One practical note for winter visitors: the Market's street access pilot, Phase 3, runs October 1, 2026 to March 31, 2027, with Pike Place shared by vehicles and pedestrians Monday to Thursday and access limited Friday to Sunday between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m., which nudges the day toward the parking garage or transit. The Market's own plan your visit page carries the current details, and the visitor FAQ answers the hours questions in one place.

From the Market, Pioneer Square is one bus fare south. Spend the afternoon there, then decide whether the pub leg happens tonight or tomorrow: Wallingford is a bus ride north. The King County Metro fare page has the current fare details for both legs.

One honest caution to close the planning section: none of these places owes you the show. The Market is a working market with 220 or more independent shops and restaurants, the oyster bar is a business with its own hours and its own queues, and the pub is a pub. Going expecting a television set produces a worse visit than going expecting good food that happened to be on television.

Which Guided Walk Fits A Bourdain-Inspired Visit?

Choose by which half of the record pulled you here. For the 2007 Market stops, the fit is the Chef Guided Food Tour of Pike Place Market, two hours, from $75, rated 4.9 across 4,806 reviews, with Beecher's among its stops. For the 2017 seafood and spirits mood, the Seattle Seafood Tour at $119 or the Downtown Seattle Restaurant Tour at $135 both run longer, more sit down formats that match the Parts Unknown tone.

A few decision notes beyond the table. The chef guided Market walk samples at nine vendor stops, so treat it as a very thorough snack run rather than lunch. The seafood tour is the opposite, a long lunch built around market fresh fish. The restaurant tour includes drinks and appetizers. If a November or December trip is on the calendar, the oyster logic of the seafood option is at its strongest in the cold water months.

Readers planning the wider trip can lean on the site's page on what a Seattle food walk costs for the money questions that apply to all three, or the guide to which food walk in Seattle to book when the Bourdain angle is only one factor among several. For the deeper background on the city the show was actually about, the short food history in what food is Seattle known for explains how a 1907 public market and a century of immigration produced the counters Bourdain visited.

Common Questions About Bourdain's Seattle Stops

Where Did Anthony Bourdain Eat In Seattle?

At five documented places across two episodes: Beecher's Handmade Cheese, Piroshky Piroshky and Salumi at Pike Place Market for No Reservations in January 2007, and Taylor Shellfish Oyster Bar in Pioneer Square plus the Pacific Inn Pub in Wallingford for Parts Unknown, Season 10 Episode 7, aired November 19, 2017.

Is Beecher's Handmade Cheese Still Open At Pike Place Market?

Yes. Beecher's was founded in 2003 and makes cheese in a glass walled kitchen at its Pike Place flagship, and it appears on the stop list of the Chef Guided Food Tour of Pike Place Market, a two hour walk from $75 per person.

Did Bourdain Visit Pike Place Market More Than Once?

The episodes covered here show Pike Place Market in the January 2007 No Reservations "Pacific Northwest" hour. The 2017 Parts Unknown episode covered Pioneer Square and Wallingford instead.

Can A Tour Take Me To The Places Bourdain Ate?

Partly. No tour listed here is a Bourdain tour, and the 2017 stops are self-guided. But Market walks including the Chef Guided Food Tour of Pike Place Market pass or serve Beecher's, one of the 2007 stops, and the tour covers the same arcade the episode filmed.

Are The Pacific Inn Pub And Taylor Shellfish Oyster Bar Near Pike Place Market?

The oyster bar is in Pioneer Square, south of the Market, one $3.00 bus ride away. The Pacific Inn Pub is in Wallingford, north of Lake Union, reachable by bus.