(Seattle)Haunted Restaurants in the Market

(Seattle)Haunted Restaurants in the Market
Market Tours

The Alibi Room
Date12.29.2008

The Alibi Room. Tucked underneath the Market in Post Alley, The Alibi Room has at least three ghosts that have been reported by staff and customers. On the top level, the restaurant level, a man has been reported. In the kitchen, downstairs, an energy has been felt radiating from part of the room. Last year, a dapper elderly man who calls himself "Frank" was seen by several customers.

The Alibi Room serves dinner and drinks. The top floor is the restaurant. The downstairs area is beautiful. They often have DJ's and dancing in the downstairs bar.

The Alibi Room
In Post Alley next to the Market Theater
85 Pike St #410
206-623-3180
Pan Africa
Date12.1.2008

The back door to Pan Africa www.panafrica.com was once the entrance to a jewlery and loan shop. The doorway is supposedly haunted by the ghost of a former manager who was killed there. He had a compulsion for making sure the door to the loan shop was locked and would return three times each night to relock the door. It was this obsessive nature that cost him his life. On a Saturday night, returning for the third round of locking, his murderer waited for him and killed him in the doorway. The murderer then robbed the store and left. It is said today that businesses in this part of the Sanitary Market still feel his presence. When a store opens, neighbors advise the new owners not to check their locks several times as many new people to this area feel the urge to do.

Pan Africa serves some of the best African food in Seattle. Using the freshest ingredients, the owner has created a delicious menu with vegetables and meats from the Market. Their entrance is on 1st Avenue and they have outdoor seating. They also offer catering services. Highly recommended by the tour guides on this tour, Monica and I eat there often before our weekend tours.

Pan Africa
Sanitary Market, entrance on 1st
1521 1st Ave, Seattle
206-652-2461

Alibi Room Gets a Pizza Oven

The haunted Alibi Room now has a wood fire pizza oven. When I was a young girl, Bugsy's occupied the same space and you could get a great piece of pizza in Post Alley. The new oven will offer the only pizza in the Market aside from the day window at Delaurentis. The Alibi Room not only has a great selection of spirits at the bar but in the restaurant as well.
The Alibi Room
In Post Alley next to the Market Theater
85 Pike St #410
206-623-3180

Mr. D's Greek Deli
Date11.21.2007

Mr. D's Greek Delicacies It's down in the basement that Mr. D keeps his sculptures. You see, he is an artist and his medium is meat. He has sculpted busts of Marilyn Monroe, Bill Clinton, George W., and others. Bill Clinton came through the Market on his first election campaign and Mr. D had a carved bust prominently on display, turning round and round on his gyro skewer. During the Lewinsky scandal, he made another bust in gyro meat, one side had the face of Clinton, the other side, the face of Monica Lewinsky. After they are displayed, they are placed in his basement in large refrigerators. He says that these busts have caused all sorts of commotion in his basement. The spirits of the building don't know what to make of them. Mr. D says that they are at war with the sculptures and often make a mess of things downstairs.

Mr. D serves gyros and other Greek foods. His counter is open during the day at the front on the Sanitary Market on Pike Place.

Mr. D's Greek Deli
Triangle Market
1518 Pike Place
206-622-4881

Kell's Irish Pub
Date11.20.2007

Kell's Irish Pub On the North end of Post Alley, Kell's Irish Pub occupies part of the old mortuary. While this side of the mortuary does not have the volume of hauntings that the 1st Avenue side does, it is not without strange occurences. Napkins and candles spontaneously lighting on fire, things moving on their own. The ghost of a young girl has been spotted frequently inside the bar. She is described as about 8 years old with red or blonde hair (both have been reported). One young woman on a job interview brought her daughter with her. Her daughter remained occupied in one part of Kells' while the interview went on. At the end of the interview the mother gathered her daughter to leave and the girl said, "Mom, I am not done playing with her" and she pointed in front of her where there seemed to be noone at all.

Kell's is open for lunch and dinner. They also offer a space for private functions above the main restaurant. At night, in the bar patrons are often treated to excellent music. Kell's is a very popular Seattle bar especially on St. Patricks Day. Lines on that day can stretch all the way down Post Alley to Stewart St.

Kell's Irish Pub
Post Alley between Stewart and Virginia
1916 Post Alley
206-728-1916