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like seafood, keep an eye out for the delicious
brodetto,
a fish stew similar to
bouillabaisse. Pizzas and pastas make up a good portion of the menu, and there
are always plenty of fresh seafood dishes.
481 Madison Ave.
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206/842-3397.
Reservations recommended. Main dishes $12-$29. AE, MC, V. Tues-
Sat 5:30-9pm (longer hours in summer).
Winslow Way Cafe
MEDITERRANEAN/NORTHWEST Although
pasta and pizzas dominate the menu here and prices are reasonable, this con-
temporary place oozes Seattle attitude. Sure, the restaurant is housed in the
funkiest building in downtown Bainbridge Island (it looks as though it could be
on a beach in the Caribbean), but inside all is indirect lighting and contempo-
rary styling. The big bar to one side fairly screams “Have a martini!” The pizzas
are just the sort of designer pies you would expect in such a setting and are gen-
erally excellent, but it is often hard to ignore the creative seafood dishes on the
daily fresh sheet.
122 Winslow Way E.
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206/842-0517.
Reservations recommended. Main dishes $7.25-$18. MC, V. Mon-
Wed 4:30-9pm; Thurs 11am-3:30pm and 4:30-9pm; Fri-Sat 11am-3:30pm and 4:30-10:30pm; Sun
10am-3:30pm and 4:30-9pm.
2 Poulsbo & the Kitsap Peninsula
Poulsbo: 15 miles NW of Bainbridge Island ferry dock, 35 miles S of Port Townsend, 45 miles N of Tacoma
Roughly 45 miles long and confusingly convoluted, the Kitsap Peninsula looks
something like an arrowhead wedged between Seattle and the Olympic Penin-
sula. Tucked amid the folds of its many glacial hills and its fjordlike waterways
is an eclectic assortment of small towns, each with a very different character.
For thousands of years this region was home to several Native American
tribes, including the Suquamish, who once had a 900-foot-long longhouse on
the shores of Agate Pass between the Kitsap Peninsula and Bainbridge Island.
Chief Sealth (pronounced
see
-alth), for whom Seattle is named, was a member
of the Suquamish tribe and today his grave can be visited near the town of
Suquamish.
The region's earliest pioneer history is linked to the logging industry. It was at
Port Gamble, on the north end of the peninsula, that Andrew Pope and William
Talbot chose to build their sawmill, which went on to become the longest oper-
ating mill in the Northwest. Although the mill is now closed, Port Gamble
remains a company town and still, for the most part, looks as if it hasn't changed
in 100 years. However, it is currently undergoing development in the wake of
the mill closing.
The state of Washington seems obsessed with theme towns; there's a Dutch
town, a Wild West town, a Bavarian town, and here on the Kitsap Peninsula, a
Scandinavian town. Though at first the town of Poulsbo seems merely a con-
trivance to sell tacky Scandinavian souvenirs, on closer inspection it proves to
have much more character than that. The town's waterfront park, marinas, and
picturesque setting on Liberty Bay leave no doubt that this town has great appeal
for the boating crowd.
The deep, protected harbors of the Kitsap Peninsula have for more than a cen-
tury seen the comings and goings of the U.S. Navy, which has naval yards here
in the town of Bremerton. Today the Bremerton Naval Yards are also home to a
large fleet of mothballed navy ships, and these have become the town's greatest
tourist asset in recent years, with two museums and a Vietnam-era destroyer
