Tucked along Lowell Street in Old Town Silverdale, steps from the waterfront park, there is a small cafe that most people in Kitsap County have never heard of, despite the fact that almost everyone who finds it describes it as one of the best discoveries they’ve made in the area. Sugar Studios Cafe is a […]
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There is a particular kind of loyalty that builds around the best local game shops, the kind where players show up not just to buy cards but to sit down, compete, trade, and spend an evening with people who share the same obsession. Cardtropolis TCG, a family-run trading card shop on Ridgetop Boulevard in Silverdale,
There is a category of coffee shop that has almost disappeared from the Pacific Northwest, not a drive-through stand, not a chain with a loyalty app, not a trendy minimalist pour-over bar, but a genuine sit-down cafe where the staff know your name, your order, and something about your week. In Silverdale, that cafe is
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There is a particular kind of store that becomes more than a store over time, one where regulars don’t just come to buy something but to belong somewhere. Avalon Comics and Games, located inside Kitsap Mall in Silverdale, has been that kind of place for the peninsula’s comic book readers, tabletop gamers, collectors, and hobbyists
Naturally 4 Paws: The Silverdale Pet Store Born From One Family’s Heartbreak and a Promise to Do Better Some businesses are built on opportunity. Others are built on something more personal, a loss, a lesson, and a determination that what happened to you will not happen to someone else. Naturally 4 Paws, Kitsap County’s only
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There is a meaningful difference between jewelry that is purchased and jewelry that is made, and in Manette’s downtown, that difference has a specific address. Two Sisters Fine Jewelry, located in Bremerton’s most charming neighborhood since 2004, is run by Deborah Hughes, a GIA Graduate Gemologist and bench jeweler with more than 30 years of
Bremerton has long held a reputation as one of the more arts-forward communities on the Kitsap Peninsula, home to murals, galleries, First Friday Art Walks, and a creative culture that punches above the city’s size. What it lacked, until recently, was something surprisingly fundamental: a locally owned art supply store that actually served that community.
Some of the best businesses in Kitsap County started not with a business plan but with a moment of reaching for something calming in an uncertain time. Little Bee Home, Emily Adams’ handcrafted candle and home goods brand based in Bremerton, began exactly that way, with a pot of melting wax in 2020 and a
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Typewriter Fever: Bremerton Shop Tom Hanks Wrote To There is a shop on North Callow Avenue in Bremerton’s Charleston District where more than 200 typewriters line the shelves at any given time, machines from every decade of the twentieth century, each one mechanical, analog, and entirely indifferent to software updates. It is run by a
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The Bremerton Restaurant Most Locals Don’t Know About Tolitoz Motherland Restaurant Is Bremerton’s Best-Kept Secret and the Most Globally Ambitious Kitchen in Kitsap County There is a restaurant tucked inside a liquor store on 6th Street in Bremerton where a chef from Kenya, who has cooked in Dubai and traveled the world collecting flavors, prepares
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