Our latest batch of suggestions for pandemic-safe weekend activities caters to beer-drinkers, gift-givers, punk-rock enthusiasts, art nerds, and everyone in between. See all our picks below, from places to get Super Bowl takeout Like List to Valentine's Day card and gift ideas from local businesses, and from places that have reopened for dine-in service (if you're up for it) to cozy patios like King's Hardware Like List (if, understandably, you're not). For even more options, read our guides to the best online events this week Like List , the best movies to watch this week Like List , and the best things to do all month long Like List . 

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FOOD & DRINK

Try limited indoor dining (or not?). Indoor dining is back on the menu, and many bars and restaurants, such as Unicorn Like List , Champagne Diner Like List , Eden Hill Like List , San Fermo Like List , Casco Antiguo Like List , and Mr. West Like List , have cautiously reopened limited indoor seating at 25% capacity. The decision to continue with indoor dining is decidedly controversial—according to Eater Seattle’s poll, 70% of respondents don’t want to dine indoors at all, and some of Seattle's most well-known chefs, like Addo Like List ’s Eric Rivera and Kamonegi Like List ’s Mutsuko Soma, have been vocal about opposing the decision. Charles Mudede has more on the subject. If you're looking for an unconventional solution, the Great Wheel Like List is now serving fancy four-course meals within its gondolas, which seat four, or you can play it safe(r) and:

Scope out some cozy patios. With more airflow, outdoor dining is usually a safer alternative to dining maskless indoors, and there are plenty of hygge options around town to get you through the final stretch of winter. Grab a deck of cards and hit up the King's Hardware Like List  patio in Ballard for an al fresco game night with beer and snacks. Alternately, bring along a good book and lounge on the heated terrace at Sabine Like List with coffee and pastries. Other prime destinations include L’Oursin Like List ’s adorable après-ski option with cheesy fondue, charcuterie, and mulled wine for two (available by reservation), waterfront dining at Westward Like List in Wallingford or JarrBar Like List downtown, and comfort food havens Revel Like List and Musang Like List . 

Try khao man gai. The revered dish khao man gai, a Thai version of the Chinese dish Hainanese chicken rice, is a super-simple, sublime combination of poached chicken, seasoned rice, and crisp cucumber garnishes, with a side of chicken broth—and it's popping up everywhere lately. Two new spots serving the dish, Khao Man Gai Thai Chicken Rice Like List and Drunken Chicken Like List , have recently landed on the scene. Sugar Hill Like List co-owner Guitar Srisuthiamorn also specializes in the dish and serves it for takeout under the name Guitar's Khao Man Gai Like List , and you can also find it at Pop Pop Thai Street Food Like List and Pink Bee Like List .

Grab some Super Bowl snacks. The Super Bowl LV Past Event Like List is this Sunday, February 7. Whether you're rooting for the Kansas City Chiefs or the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, or you're just in it for the commercials and halftime show, one thing's for sure: Being prepared with an arsenal of snacks is absolutely imperative for your game-day viewing. We've gathered a list Like List of great local options, from takeout specials, like Serious TakeOut Like List 's "big game ultimate snack pack" with buffalo wings, nachos, and "pizza tots," to places open for outdoor dining or limited indoor dining where you can watch the game, like the West Seattle sports bar Admiral Pub Like List . 

Celebrate National Pizza Pie Day. This Tuesday, February 9, is National Pizza Pie Day, but why not get started early by plotting to add a few new melty, cheesy pies to your personal takeout repertoire? Detroit-style pizza is currently all the rage, beloved for its rectangular shape and burnished, frico-like edges, and the recently opened pizzerias Cornelly Like List and Moto Like List both serve it. It's also available at South Town Pie Like List and Sunny Hill Like List . Other pizzas well worth your time and consideration include the Jersey-style slices at Dino's Tomato Pie, the lovely wood-fired creations at Delancey, New York-style varieties at Supreme Like List , inimitable Chicago deep dish at Windy City Pie, and thoughtfully sourced pizza at Humble Pie Like List .

Other notable weekend events:

February 2021 Stout In and Out Past Event Like List
Tacoma's Proctor District specialty beer shop and taproom will tap five different stouts—including milk stouts, imperial stouts, pastry stouts, nitro stouts, and other variations—on its Western cedar tap log each day in February. Enjoy a pint with limited indoor seating or grab a Campfire Crowler to take home.
Peaks & Pints, Tacoma (Friday-Sunday)

Hitchcock Guest Chef Street Food Pop-Up Series: Chef Chef Carlo Lamagna Past Event Like List
Filipino American chef Carlo Lamagna, who cooks his native cuisine—like adobo and lumpia Shanghai—at the Portland restaurant Magna Kusina, will come to Bainbridge Island as the latest guest at Hitchcock's pop-up series. He'll be slinging dishes like Longipan (longanisa on a pandesal roll with grilled cilantro relish), Arroz Caldo (chicken and rice porridge with chicken skin chicharrons), crab fat noodles, and Ginataang Kalabasa (fire-roasted kabocha squash in spicy coconut broth). 
Hitchcock Delicatessen & Charcuterie, Bainbridge Island (Friday-Sunday)

Li'l Woody's Burger Month Past Event Like List
The popular local burger joint chain Li'l Woody's has revealed the lineup for its annual Burger Month series, which features burgers dreamed up by local chefs. This week's special is a yogurt-marinated chicken burger with cilantro chutney from Aakanksha and Uttam Mukherjee of Spice Waala.
Various locations (Friday-Sunday)

VALENTINE'S DAY

Send Valentine's Day gifts to your friends and lovers. If your darling dearests don't live with you, take this weekend as an opportunity to ship them sweet parcels from local businesses. Elliott Bay Like List has eight gift set options in store this year for the voracious readers in your life, including a basic set with a $20 gift card, a Theo chocolate bar, and a card, and other options that come with a book, like The Selected Works of Audre Lorde (a recent favorite Like List of Seattle artist Anastacia-Reneé). For wine and jigsaw lovers, turn to Bottlehouse Like List 's gift sets. for This Valentine's Day print by local designer Elaine Lin (who designed a V-Day cover for The Stranger last year!) is also in stock, as are these strawberry pom-pom charms from Renegade Craft vendor nOm•pOm. Just need a card? Your democratic socialist lovers will appreciate a romantic message from Bernie Sanders in the form of a sturdy wooden greeting card from the Works Like List (who also have an array of gift sets), and everyone else will swoon at this lover's look card from the Frye Art Museum Like List and this watercolor bouquet from the Volunteer Park Conservatory Like List . 

Win a 10-minute wedding ceremony at Chihuly Garden and Glass. Tying the knot with your beloved? You have until Saturday at midnight to enter for the chance to be one of eight couples to be married at the Chihuly Garden and Glass Like List in a quickie ceremony officiated by Seattle-bred actor Joel McHale (the star of Community) on February 13. In addition, winners will receive a one-night stay at the Sheraton Hotel, two round-trip Alaska Airlines vouchers for when it's safe to honeymoon again, an Ethan Stowell dinner and wine delivery to your room on your wedding night, and a champagne toast atop the Space Needle. See details here.  

Other notable weekend events:

Low Tide with Michael Doyle Past Event Like List
Scoop up handmade valentines by local painter Michael Doyle, and check out some of his other new work. 
fruitsuper, Pioneer Square (Friday-Saturday)

Valentine's Day Open Market! Past Event Like List
Rely on local vendors to provide gifts for the apples of your eyeballs at this two-day market. They're also accepting food and cash donations for their local shelter. 
Freighthouse Station Marketplace, Tacoma (Friday-Sunday)

Valentine's Gift Shop Past Event Like List
Artists like Isabella Valencia, Nicole Valencia, Tim D Tapp, and Jennifer Six will sell their hand-crafted wares at this limited-capacity pop-up. 
Black Lab Gallery, Everett (Saturday-Sunday)

MUSIC & ARTS

Mask up and head to MoPOP. As of Friday, the Museum of Pop Culture Past Event Like List is welcoming back households and solo-flyers for timed in-person visits Like List at Seattle Center. Their hours are reduced to Friday-Sunday from 10 am-6 pm, and current exhibitions include all your permanent-collection favorites, including Infinite Worlds of Science Fiction Remind Like List , Pearl Jam: Home and Away Past Event Like List , and Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses Remind Like List . The museum is the first of a string of institutions to resume COVID restriction-compliant visits in the next couple of months; the Frye Art Museum Past Event Like List (Thurs Feb 11) Seattle Art Museum Past Event Like List (Sat Feb 27 for members and March 5 for the public) are on deck.  

Rip it up for Clash Day. Seattle has bred its fair share of internationally recognized musical icons (Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Sir Mix-a-Lot, Chris Cornell, Kenny G), and the members of the exalted British punk band the Clash are sadly not among them. However! The beloved Seattle indie radio station KEXP is the progenitor of International Clash Day Past Event Like List (Friday), which started in 2013 on The Morning Show with John Richards, who happened to be on a Joe Strummer kick that day and incited his listeners' insatiable thirst for the band's anti-fascist anthems. (Learn more about it in this video.) COVID won't change anything about this year's event, so queue up the live stream or go for a drive and keep it locked on 90.3 FM for cuts and classics by the band, covers by local artists, a bunch of obscure references and English puns, and more Clash-related audio content. 

Go to the movies (with caution). Under Phase 2 of Governor Inslee's Healthy Washington reopening plan, many movie theaters are reopening their doors for limited-capacity screenings. While we think it's still safer to go to a drive-in (Oak Harbor's Blue Fox Remind Like List and Port Orchard's Rodeo Drive-In Remind Like List are both up and running this weekend) or queue up virtual cinema Like List options at home, those who choose to go out must remember to 1) buy tickets in advance, 2) keep a safe distance, and 3) wear a mask (preferably two) when not eating or drinking.

Other notable weekend events:

Bellevue Arts Museum Reopening Past Event Like List
The Eastside arts institution will reopen its galleries as King County moves into a new phase of its reopening plan. Visits are timed, advance tickets are required, and hours are limited to Friday-Sunday from 11 am-5 pm. 
Bellevue Arts Museum (Saturday)

CoCA Seattle Exhibition: A Conversation Through Time & Space Past Event Like List
Selma Waldman’s artworks are juxtaposed with nine CoCA artist members in this virtual exhibition, also viewable by appointment. 
Center on Contemporary Art, Pioneer Square (Friday-Saturday)

Florentia Past Event Like List
Summon springtime by gazing into minimalist, nature-inspired stained glass pieces. 
Core Gallery, Pioneer Square (Friday-Saturday)

Ghost Mass Past Event Like List
Because it's designed to be viewed from outside the gallery, you don't need an appointment to see this multimedia installation by Emily Tanner-McLean, whose work often deals with liminal space. "Like ghost particles or neutrinos, which are studied to better understand dark matter, Ghost Mass is a piece that gauges what’s missing or lost by interpreting what remains through video projections, sound, and objects," read press materials.
Glass Box Gallery, Chinatown-International District (Friday-Saturday)

Museum of Glass + Thea Foss Walking Tour Past Event Like List
Join knowledgeable staff guides every Saturday for tours of the Museum of Glass, the Chihuly Bridge of Glass, and the Thea Foss Waterway. 
Museum of Glass, Tacoma (Saturday-Sunday) 

Parable of Gravity Past Event Like List
Seattle-based artist Casey Curran postulates about an idealistic future on Earth through large sculptures, including one in the likeness of a suspended aluminum asteroid, inspired by Galileo’s mission to Jupiter, as well as an otherworldly kinetic garden. The show is viewable by appointment only.
MadArt, South Lake Union (Friday-Sunday)

Portraits? Past Event Like List
From the meticulous (Hui Zhang's "Study Hard Every Day, China Dream") to the abstract (Jim Westergard's "The Prisoners"), the gallery's broad collection of portraits capture subjects' hidden truths. See them all online or make an appointment to view them in person.
Davidson Galleries, Pioneer Square (Friday-Saturday)

Repetition Suppression Past Event Like List
Seattle artist Natalie Krick's photographic works slice and reconfigure bodies in suggestive ways, pulling the viewer into her beautifully saturated and colorful pieces. Her photos best reflect the experience of being a woman and being seen: fragmented, pieced together, more than the sum of our parts. There's an elusive sensuality to her work that subverts expectation. In her show, Repetition Suppression, Krick plays around with the idea of the femme fatale from Hollywood crime melodramas of the '40s and '50s, crafting mysterious and alluring figures in each photo. The exhibition title alludes to a phenomenon called repetition suppression, a reduced neural response observed when certain stimuli are presented more than once. It's an acknowledgment of the femme fatale as a now-common trope of an unknowable, ambiguous woman. JASMYNE KEIMIG
Specialist, Pioneer Square (Friday-Saturday)

Sara Genn: Shelter in Place Past Event Like List
Created during the lockdown in her California home, Sara Genn's new collection—geometric color fields created without tape or projection—take a sculptural approach to painting.
Winston Wächter Fine Art, South Lake Union (Friday-Saturday)

Sheltered: Artists Respond to COVID-19 Past Event Like List
Find inspiration and solace in Pacific Northwest artist responses to the pandemic. 
Schack Art Center, Everett (Friday-Sunday)

Transfigurations: Carbon Flow Past Event Like List
While carbon is invisible, it can be found in nearly all life forms, including the human body. Rachel Loge's visual and sonic installation explores "the transmutation of carbon through natural, human, and industrial forms" through sounds and hand-drawn animation. The opening celebration will be held on Facebook Live, but you can see the show in person by making an appointment.
Jack Straw New Media Gallery, University District (Friday)

Traver Gallery Annual Group Exhibition Past Event Like List
Traver Gallery is one of the best places in town to see innovative sculpture and glass art for free, as well as two-dimensional works, so you shouldn't miss their annual group exhibition if you have any interest in the medium. This year, you'll be able to admire pieces by Preston Singletary and other as-yet-announced artists. 
Traver Gallery, Pioneer Square (Friday-Saturday)

TREE OF LIFE | New Work by Marcio Diaz and Chin Yuen Past Event Like List
Marcio Díaz (known for his "Bubblism" paintings of pastoral scenes) and Chin Yuen (who has lived all over the world and thus pays particular attention to language in her work) show colorful paintings that reveal the universal in the abstract. 
ArtXchange, Pioneer Square (Friday-Saturday)

The Uncertainty Principle Past Event Like List
Uncertainty, unpredictability, and unease—heard of 'em?—are the throughline in this mixed-media collection of work by Sung I Chun, Stephanie Krimmel, Peggy Murphy, and Sue Springer. 
Shift Gallery, Pioneer Square (Friday-Sunday)

Wa Na Wari Group Show Past Event Like List
Four new exhibits are gracing the walls of Central District’s Black arts space Wa Na Wari this month. Stop by in person (you’re required to wear a mask and take a temperature check at the door) to see various work by Andrea Coleman, Ilana Harris-Babou, Zahyr Lauren, and Zachary James Watkins.
Wa Na Wari, Central District (Friday-Sunday)

BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Celebrate Black History Month. So much of our culture is owed to Black artists, writers, thinkers, and communities, and Black History Month is a particularly great time to celebrate that. Whether you want to hear talks with Black authors, support Black-owned restaurants (like at Edouardo Jordan's Soul of Seattle Past Event Like List event on Friday), watch films that center Black lives (like Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project Past Event Like List screening through Northwest Film Forum), or read books by Black authors (Elliott Bay Like List has a list here), our roundup Like List of events and resources should put you on the right track. Check out our full Black History Month calendar for even more options. 

OTHER HAPPENINGS

The Heart of Kirkland Scavenger Hunt Past Event Like List
Kirkland residents can hunt for clues around local businesses, find letters, solve a riddle, and submit the fruits of their labor (an answer) to be entered in a drawing for prizes. 
Various locations, Kirkland (Friday-Sunday)

Interlaken Icicle Dash 5k & 10k Past Event Like List
Run through the beautiful tree-covered trails of Interlaken Park for a 5K or 10K with enchanted forest vibes. Start times are staggered for social distancing purposes. 
Interlaken Park, Montlake (Sunday) 

Seattle Department of Design Pop-Up Past Event Like List
The Seattle Department of Design will sling a limited supply of municipal-themed merch from their latest drop. You can also pick up preorders placed on their website.
674 S King St, Chinatown-International District (Saturday-Sunday)