Beacon Hill/Columbia City

 

 

 

Entertainment, Arts, & Events

 

Farmers Market- 4801 Rainier Ave S at S Edmonds/www.seattlefarmersmarkets.org// Every Wednesday from 3pm-7pm from April through October. Check the website for specific dates of operation and farmer's markets in your neighborhood.

 

 

 

 

 

Art Spaces

 

 

 

Theaters

 

Columbia City Cinema- 4816 Rainier Ave. S/ 206.721.3156/ www.columbiacitycinema.com// This movie theater is really cool and still independently owned. The popcorn is delicious and a decent size coming in a brown paper bag. The best thing is that they let you bring in coffee from local baristas, that means coffee from the place down the street

 

 

 

Venues

 

 

 

Misc.

 

El Centro De La Raza- 2524 16th Ave S/206.329.9442/www.elcentrodelaraza.com// This place is lcoated at the old Beacon Hill Elementary School. Every first Thursday of the month they have a free breakfast and a tour. So many services are available here: food bank, free hotmeal, housing, employment, free tax help, child care, the list goes on.

 

Communi-chi- 2524 16th Ave S/ 206.860.5009/ www.communichi.org// An affordable community acupuncture clinic. Located on the third floor of the El Centro de la Raza building. Payment is on a sliding scale based on your income level but it can be as low as $15 a visit. Do yourself a favor and go get poked!

 

 

Goods & Services

 

 

 

Arts & Crafts

 

 

 

Bars

 

The Beacon Pub- 3057 Beacon Ave S/206.726.0238// Has really fun karaoke on Friday nights. That's it.

 

 

 

Bicycle Shops

 

Bike Works Community Bike Shop- 3709 S. Ferdinand/206.725.9408/www.bikeworks.org// A fantastic non-profit bike shop offering maintenance classes and awesome programes for youth, including their “earn a bike” programs where kids learn to fix bikes and trade time working on bikes for one of their own! A great place for good prices and sweet road bikes! Support this bike shop! Tuesday-Friday 11am-7pm, Saturday 10am-6pm, Sunday 11am-5pm.

 

Hello Bicycle- 3067 Beacon Ave S/206.805.6700/www.hellobicycle.com// I personally have never been here but it is a bike shop on Beacon, woohoo! All accounts though is that the owner is super nice and helpful and will get your bike up and running. The shops is relatively new and so the hours fluctuate but you can check the website or call ahead they are pretty good about updating. That said the hours are: Open everyday except Tuesday and Thursday 11am-6pm.

 

Books, Newsstands, & Comics

 

Grocery

 

MacPherson's Fruit and Produce- 4500 15th Ave S/206.762.0115// This place is the place to go in Beacon Hill for some great deals of fruits and vegetables. They have an amazing selection and they even have a half off corner so it gets even cheaper. You can get produce for about half what you would pay at the grocery store.  In the parking lot there is also a roasted corn stand and sometimes there is a man or woman in a car selling tamales. Open everyday 6am-9pm

 

Hardware

 

Health & Safety

 

 

 

Restaurants & Cafes

 

Victrola (formerly Galaxie Espresso)- 3215 Beacon Ave S/206.860.7767// Online it says this place is now called Victrola and not Galaxie but their sign still says Galaxie. Anyway this little coffee shop is only two or three blocks from the library so you can go by there after check out all your books. The walls have these awesome maps sketched in pencil and the baristas are always nice. M-F 6:30am-6pm and Sat 7am-6pm and Sun 8am-4pm

 

Kusina Filipina- 3201 Beacon Ave S/206.322.9433// This place has a beautiful mural on the side of the building. They have a few vegan options such as lumpia. Everyone here is really nice, too.

 

 

Record Stores

 

 

 

 

Thrift & Clothing

 

Public Spaces

 

Seward Park- 5902 Lake Washington Blvd. S/ It’s kind of sad when a park boasts a native plant garden as a feature. But that is the world in which we live. Anyway it is a great walk around the whole park but it can take up to an hour or so to walk the perimeter. But there are amazing trails and meadows in the middle so definitely go exploring.

 

Columbia City Public Library- 4721 Rainier Ave. S./206.386.1908/spl.org// Go to the library and read books!

 

Beacon Hill Public Library- 2821 Beacon Ave S/206.684.4711/spl.org// Be a bookworm!

 

Kubota Garden- 9817 55th Ave. S/ kubota.org//A Japanese garden that’s beautiful, free, and huge. It’s 20-acres, has streams, views, and incorporates Japanese gardening techniques with local flora. Shazam!