Bainbridge Island

Bainbridge Play Cafe

Bainbridge Play Cafe: The Island’s First Coffee Shop and Play Space for Families

She Moved to an Island and Felt Completely Alone After her daughter was born in California, Amanda Aude and her husband didn’t have many friends or family around. “As a new mom, it was very isolating for me,” she said.  That feeling, the specific loneliness of new parenthood in a place where nobody knows your […]

The Most Magical Stop on Bainbridge Islands Winslow Way

The Most Magical Stop on Bainbridge Island’s Winslow Way

A Building With a Century of History and a New Chapter There is a property on Winslow Way East in downtown Bainbridge Island that most people who walked past it for years assumed would become a boutique hotel. The historic buildings had been occupied by the same family for almost 100 years, a tenure that […]

Blackbird Bakery Has Been Waking Up Bainbridge Island Every Morning for Over 25 Years

Blackbird Bakery Has Been Waking Up Bainbridge Island Every Morning for Over 25 Years

The First Stop After the Ferry Walk off the Bainbridge Island ferry, turn onto Winslow Way East, and within two minutes you will smell it before you see it. Blackbird Bakery has occupied the same spot at 210 Winslow Way East since 1999,  long enough to have become not just a bakery but a piece […]