Tacoma, near Amtrak?

I second the suggestion of the Harmon. It's near good museums & University, about as interesting as downtown Tacoma gets.

If you don't have that kind of time or legs, it's about 3 blocks to freighthouse square -- which is not a square at all, but it is a 3-block-long recycled freight warehouse. It's the green building a block up from Puyallup Ave and a couple blocks toward town from the train station. It has a food court with quite a decent variety, and it has a few other good restaurants. My favorite is 32 Silvers, a Thai place that's not just like every other Thai restaurant on the coast.

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Wes

Guess O. wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 16:48:59 -0800, Josh Hayes
> wrote:
>
> >My son wants to take the train to Tacoma for his birthday, this
> >Thursday. It turns out we could take one in the morning and then return
> >a few hours later, leaving us free for lunch in Tacoma. Can anyone give
> >any advice for places to go that are reachable from the Amtrak station,
> >assuming we'd be willing to take a bus or similar to get there?
>
> Head towards downtown on Puyallup Ave, turn right on Pacific
> Ave, and go until you reach Harmon Brewing.  Family-friendly
> brewpub, pub eats, decent selection of beers.  Pierce Transit
> will get you there; you can walk down to the Transit Center
> by the Tacoma Dome to find a bus, or just take a rather long
> walk.
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