Just south of the sprawling Point Defiance Park is the Antique Sandwich Company, a Tacoma institution since 1973. The restaurant, open daily for breakfast, lunch and dinner, offers a spacious dining room with old antique tables and chairs, a live music stage and Third World items for sale from the progressive Traditions Fair Trade group. Order your meal as you walk in at the counter on the right. The Antique Sandwich Company has a breakfast, lunch and dinner menu, but much of the action takes place on the specials chalkboard by the front window. The menu focuses on soups and sandwiches.
All deserts are honey sweetened.
You can also choose from several kinds of juices and espresso. Breakfasts feature homemade baked goods such as cinnamon rolls, scones, muffins, gingerbread and bread pudding, as well as whole wheat waffles, homemade granola, scrambled eggs and quiche. Parents will like to know that the dining room contains several baskets full of toys for children to enjoy while dining. Since then, a new Traditions caf and folk art gift shop have been opened in Olympia, but many of the gifts, from countries ranging from Ghana to Nepal, continue to be sold at a counter in the Antique Sandwich Shop. Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.