Pike Place Market Culinary Tour – Travel The Four Corners 2025

You can’t be a purist about the menu sequence on this tour. So, throw caution to the wind and enjoy what culinary delights come your way. If you are still with me, we’ve gobbled down beignets, chunks of cheese, Mac and Cheese samplers, and cultured gelato in that order. 

Now, we are waiting across the street from Maíz, next door to the first Starbucks that opened in 1971. Our guide has disappeared into the building with the Maíz sign saying Tortillas & Antojitos (appetizers).

Chef Eric is a big fan of fresh ingredients and small independent shops. He emerges with a platter of colorful, mouthwatering, hand-made street tacos. This food tour is shaping up nicely.

The website says, “Maíz produces non-GMO, stone-ground masa for tortillas using 100% nixtamal at their street eatery.” I didn’t know what that meant, but a web search revealed that the great civilizations of Mesoamerica prepared corn and grains this way as early as 6700 BC.

In short, it’s the opposite of processed food, which everyone knows by now is bad for you.