Man, "married" in quotes just looks so pathetic. It's like it's being said by a patronizing parental couple who are watching their tweens put on a "play" in the living room.

So sad.

Dude! Have you BEEN to the Wedgewood Broiler? It's freaking awesome.

The rest of Wedgewood is, you know, upscale grocery stores, spendy brewpubs, and houses with freakishly nice landscaping. Let's say it's like the QA of 15 years ago. (Crap, I'm getting old.) But without sidewalks and not near the actual city.

But I disagree with the comparison. I think 15th Ave E (on Cap Hill) is the new Queen Anne. North Fremont is the new 15th Ave E. Phinney is the new north Fremont; and the new Phinney is, well, Wedgewood.

Yeah, I wish. Wedgwood's got 0 good restaurants, and none coming on the horizon (the aforementioned WB is, uh, retro and air conditioned, but the food is not good; the Mac and Cheese, for instance, looks suspiciously like Kraft).

Top Pot is the best eating place in Wedgwood, and it isn't officially in Wedgwood. But you can't eat donuts for dinner. The best real meals are at the Fiddler's Inn and Wedgwood Ale House.

For community life, once a year, the community council puts on a kid's movie at AEII (which is a great school, but I'm sure that isn't what the guy at the party was talking about), and they appear to have their act together with a nice trick-or-treating event on 35th. Oh, yeah, and the Christmas tree lot is good.

Otherwise, I'm reminded of an old Stranger quote: Wedgwood is to Ravenna, as Ravenna is to the U-District: a couple of miles to the northeast, and much more boring.

Wedgewood sucks. Upscale grocery? you mean the safeway and QFC on 35th? Or do you mean the PCC in view ridge or the metro market in bryant? Theres nothing to do there, all the bars are stodgy old pubs and strange hole in the walls. Combine that with the lack of any good places to eat (with exception to the grateful bread and black pearl). and the houses actually look like crap for the most part (built from the 30s-60s and generally generically middle class). Theres no good views and there's really only 1 park (Dahl on 25th). Wedgewood sucks. However, rent is often cheap, which i guess argues against the logic that it's like queen anne.

I've been to the Wedgwood Broiler (no e!). It sucks. Also, my parents have taken to lifting their individual butter pats like old pensioners. This depresses me.

As for "spendy brewpubs," what are you talking about? Fiddler's Inn? They don't make their own beer. Wedgwood Ale House? Ditto.

Plus, there are sidewalks everywhere in Wedgwood--it's only when you venture out of bounds to Lake City or View Ridge or whatever that Maple neighborhood is called that they disappear.

With 8 Limbs Yoga and the Top Pot Doughnuts and a new Starbucks and an expanded library... I think Wedgwood is the new Ballard. Maybe.

R, please tell me where I can find a 'strange hole in the wall' pub in Wedgwood. That, at least, would be interesting. Neither the Ale House or Fiddler's Inn counts in my book, and there are no other drinking establishments in Wedgwood, beyond the bars at the WB and Wong's Kitchen and Cafe Van Gogh's 'wine bar'.

I did forget about Cafe Javasti, which makes good crepes, but again, not a dinner place. Someone please open a good place to eat dinner in this neighborhood! I had a glimmer of hope when I saw the neon cactus next to the new Starbucks that someone was opening a Mexican place, but it turned out to be a frickin' tanning salon.

Well, there is the Top Pot.

It's getting there--Fiddler's Inn was, in the old days, an absolute dive. Now its a family pub type joint, and it's packed almost every night.

There's a Top Pot...but there's still not much street life. I'd say Greenwood's more likely to become the new Queen Anne.

I love the look of Wedgwood elementary school, and I LOVE 50's houses, so it would be a great neighborhood for me, but I don't think I can afford that area.

So I'm stuck on Beacon Hill, which is nowhere, buiness-wise. One bar, two grocery stores, one good restaurant/coffee shop, and a whole bunch of boring.

But at least our view is nice.

Huge areas of Wedgwood have no sidewalks.

BTW, have you ever noticed that half the time it's called "Wedgewood" and the other half "Wedgwood"? I have seen this on official city documents even. No one really knows the right answer, if there is a right answer.

I don't know what that means either, but I do know this: It is officially time for people to stop using the phrase "[something] is the new [some other thing]." Stop the insanity.

It's Wedgwood without the e, technically, because it was named after the china.

And there are some decent restaurants down Lake City Way from Wedgwood proper -- Anita's Bistro and Mr. Villa, for sure. But the neighborhood is like a suburb in the city, and kind of depressing if you'd like to be in a city proper.

FNARF--There is a right answer. Wedgwood. Read the neighborhood newsletter, and you will learn. Oh, you will learn. Named after the china--the original developer's wife was a fan.

Greg Barnes, where do you get off saying you cannot eat doughnuts for dinner! If Wedgwood is the new Queen Anne, Doughnuts for dinner is the new chicken pot pie!

That's not what the city clerk thinks: http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/~public/nmaps/html/NN-1050S.htm

Or the Wedgewood Ale House, or Wedgewood Chevron, or the Wedgewood Barber Shop, or US Bank, or the Wedgewood Market, or Wedgewood Chiropractic....

As I learned in elementary logic, if A is false, then 'if A, then "anything at all"'. For example, "If the moon is made of green cheese, George W. Bush is the greatest president our nation has ever seen."

Likewise, since we know that Wedgwood is not the new Queen Anne, I can agree that, "If Wedgwood is the new Queen Anne, Doughnuts for dinner is the new chicken pot pie!"

Anyway...

Grousing about Beacon Hill restaurants just proves the point. Beacon Hill has the very nice Willie's Taste of Soul Barbeque and Custom Smoke House. Wedgwood, of course, has no BBQ joints, but there is a sad shadow of Willie's (called "Willy's") down the hill on Lake City Way.

Note that according to the city clerk's map, half of the 'Wedgewood' businesses are not in Wedgwood. As Top Pot is not. Nor the updated library, Black Pearl, or the Safeway. But since they stick the 'Welcome to Wedgwood' sign at 70th, I'm willing to give Black Pearl, Safeway and Chevron the benefit of the doubt.

At least with the city clerk's map, though, we can see that Wedgwood contains the original P-Patch in the city. Which is something, I suppose. Sadly, though, the Wedgwood Rock belongs to Ravenna. Those bastards get everything.

The Wedgewood Ale House, Wedgewood Chevron, Wedgewood Barber Shop, Bank, Market, Chiropractic, and all others with an e are technically misspelled. But, really, who cares? Even I don't.

I lie awake nights, Amy Kate.

Northup Way in Bellevue gives me night sweats.

Speaking of spelling, the place in Fremont is Brouwers, not Browers. I think Browers is in Freemont.

That's weird--I was trying to explain Wedgwood to Christopher like one hour ago. I grew up here and I live here and I cannot get enough of the Wedgwood Broiler's lounge in all its corny wood-paneled and frozen-onion-ringed glory.

The north end might not be that exciting--I might be the only human here under age 75--but at least everyone isn't all PEEKIN' all the time. Get your eyeballs off me for 2 seconds, Capitol Hill. Barf.

We call it "The 'Wood." Don't hate.

oh, by the by, Brouwers is kuul. Nice place, we Fremonsters love it.

oh, and don't be so stuck on "official map" borders. When I lived south of the Zoo, our little area there was claimed by Wallingford, Fremont, Phinney Ridge, and Ballard community councils. Seriously.

So, if they want to be Wedgewood, let them be Wedgewood. Like Fremont, it's not just a place, it's a state of mind.

Wedgwood is a great neighborhood to pass through en route to somewhere else.

The Wedgwood Rock is Seattle's Stonehenge. Does Queen Anne have a Stonehenge?

Ah, Will, but the Wedgwood Community Council doesn't claim Top Pot. They've got a sign just north of it saying 'Welcome to Wedgwood'.

But I think we've got the germ of an idea here: Wedgwood should just annex it's way to semi-urbanity. Start by moving the border south to 65th, since everyone thinks Top Pot is in Wedgwood, anyway. Rename the wishy-washy 'Northeast' Library the 'Wedgwood Library'. Liberate the Wedgwood Rock from Ravenna.

Next, grab the 'Bryant' Playground (40th and 65th). After all, who thinks that part of town is Bryant? Plus, Bryant is a wimpy little neighborhood that has two playgrounds; they should give one to the larger Wedgwood.

Now grab the so-called 'View Ridge' PCC (which has no view, and is on no ridge). This will leave View Ridge with only two businesses: the Sand Point Country Club and the View Ridge Swim and Tennis Club, which pretty much sums that neighborhood up perfectly.

Having defeated its neighbors to the south and east, Wedgwood should then turn its sights to Roosevelt, grabbing Lake City Way down to 15th NE. This will pick up the aforementioned Mr. Villa, and Wedgwood will finally have a good neighborhood restaurant.

Actually, Wedgwood is the new black.

The city map is confusing. It says we live in Fremont, but we clearly live in Wallingford. We're south of the Zoo, like Will. Plus, we're east of Aurora, and if Aurora isn't a logical place to draw a line between neighborhoods, then I don't know what is.