Bartell Drug Stores
It's pure bliss to have a twenty-four hour drugstore (coincidentally the only one in all of Seattle) nearby. Their selection reminds me of an abridged Amazon.com with everything from haircare products to bestsellers to air purifiers. The only problem with this Bartell Drugstore is that the employees can be rather strange. There are perfectly good ones, but then there are those socially inept who seem to have just entered a world of OTHER people.
Kfc
I can't honestly recommend any of the Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants in Seattle, but if I were forced to choose I wouldn't visit the lower Queene Anne restaurant. I am a fan of KFC's particular combination of greasy goodness. Sometimes. This restaurant is impossible to order in because the emplyees can't understand and are too distracted talking to each other to try. When my food arrived it was cold and I had the sinking feeling that it was yesterday's chicken.
Easy Street Records - Queen Anne
Easy Street is what record stores are trying to become. It's the cool older brother to independent places all around Seattle. They have free concerts here with the top indie artists (I saw Rilo Kiley and The Presidents of The United States of America--okay so they're not indie but they're good). The used CDs range from classical to Hip Hop to Jazz to mainstream pop, and the selection just keeps going.
Metropolitan Market
Before I moved to Seattle I was used to the simple grocery store--the Albertsons or the Safeway. They have all the necesseties and are useful like a pair of generic tennis shoes are useful. Larry's Market is the Prada shoes of grocery stores. They have knowledgable employees in every area of the place--the wine department, the cheese department, etc. And they have the most extensive selection of foods imaginable. The prices are a bit more, but shopping sales keeps the bill down.
Starbucks
Starbucks, or as I and my friends like to call it Bucky's, is generally a place of placelesness. Like Barnes and noble or Kohls--it's a mass produced setting that always has the same atmosphere whether you're in Kansas City or Seattle. I must say that the employees in these placeless places vary greatly and make or break the atmosphere. The Lower Queen Anne Starbucks has a rotating cast of the most interesting an likeable Baritas around.
Twice Sold Tales
Twice told Tales is a Used bookstore, independantly owned and operated, and absolutely full of cats. If you are a cat person--which I am--you'll love to browse the massive selection of books while you play with the even larger selection of rescued animals. The bookstore has expanded lately and now carries children's literature and obscure titles. The books are reasonably priced and shopping here beats buying books in the big chain stores.
Pagliacci Pizza
Pagliacci Pizza is seriously the best in Lower Queen Anne, probably some of the best pizza I've had on the West coast. They hand toss the pizza's there. It's real restaurant quality--none of this Dominoes Pizza or Pizza Hut greasy-sits-in-your-stomach-like-a-rock pizza. This is really handmade from the sauce to the ingredients they put on bing hand chopped and prepared before you.
Nordstrom
There's nothing like visiting the Nordstrom downtown men's fragrance counter. All of the salespeople are interested and highly knowledgable of their products' peculiarities--ie the notes in each scent and the corresponding skin types. I appreciate the fact that they carry hard to find scents and even carry the Jean Paul Gaultier line of Le Male prducts as well as John Varvatos' skin care line.