Snacks! is the independent Ballard convenience store that keeps boutique hours and traffics in high-quality versions of 7-Eleven standards: The hot dogs come from Dante’s Inferno Dogs, the ice-cream treats come from Molly Moon’s, the Rice Krispie treats involve Nutella. Alongside the uppity stuff are all the cheap beers, salty snacks, and checkout-line candy bars you have a right to expect. It’s a lightly drunk and/or stoned person’s late-night paradise. (Snacks!, 5219 Ballard Ave NW, 453-3806. 10 am–2:30 am.)
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Also, you can hit on the dude with the mustache who works there. I hear if you’re really friendly and tug on his facial hair, he’ll let you come home with him and make his cat mew like a jawa from Star Wars.
Um. Right.
Man, I wish my neighborhood had one of these. My 7-11 is pretty well stocked, but there’s no way I”m eating their hot dogs.