The Crumpet Shop

Crumpets come off the griddle at The Crumpet Shop in Pike Place Market the way they have since 1976, split and toasted to order, their holes filling with butter, honey and ricotta, or smoked salmon and cucumber for the Seattle-style. Gary Lasater and Nancy McFaul opened it under the name The United Metropolitan Improved Crumpet Baking & Punctual Delivery Company. Customers shortened it, and it stuck.

Amy and Cooper Golding run the shop now, working from the founders' recipes in the same small storefront at First and Pike Place, where the window lets passersby watch the batter rise and set. The crumpets and loose leaf tea are shipped nationwide on Goldbelly. Fifty years in one corner of the market, and the line still forms.