There’s a tiny white building on 15th Avenue NW in Ballard where every weekend you’ll see a line of people, all smiles, pushing their way inside the vintage lunchbox- and kitsch-swathed tiny dining room of Lunchbox Laboratory, home to some of the best burgers in Seattle. They’re truly gourmet. Restaurant-owner Scott Simpson ditched his gourmet digs to use his culinary training and homestyle inclinations to create high-end comfort food that spares no expense.
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by Alex Russell
Spring is a lovely time in Seattle.
It’s when the cherryblossoms bloom all over town. Through Ballard you can walk block after block and find tulips of all colors and shapes, daffodils in every shade of yellow and white. My potted jasmine has new shoots and leaves, tiny flower buds filling themselves in day by day. The stems from my poppy seedlings are spreading, and collect dew at their tips before dawn. The maples in the yard are sprouting buds for a new season of leaves. And just today the swifts have returned, streaking across the blue sky for their tiny prey.
Spring in Seattle is a thawing for all of us—this winter was especially cold in many ways. Today the sky is cloudless, the sun is shining, and the entire city is alive.
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