Easy Seattle food scene costumes for Halloween

For Halloween, dress the way you like to eat: locally and at least assembled at home, even if you don’t do it yourself.

And if you love to eat, the best Halloween costume could be as close as your next meal. Seattle’s food world has a treasure trove of totally doable costumes that require just a little creative thinking and almost no real craftsmanship – the sweet spot for Halloween costumes for adults.

With repurposed generic costumes, items available in a reasonably well-appointed home, and some special upgrades if you wish, we’ve put together some delicious ideas to help you brainstorm and shop at the thrift store – or for you, to steal and call your own. Keep scrolling.

Seattle dog

Difficulty level: Easy enough for a drunk person who stumbles out of a concert at one in the morning.

Start with a store-bought hot dog costume to make things easier, then grab some white foam noodles from the dollar store and glue them to the sausage part of the costume in a wave pattern. Ideally, you can drag it on the mustard to hide it as this isn’t an essential part of the Seattle canine experience.

Bonus Points: Carry a cartridge gun full of cream cheese and a bottle of Sriracha to attract other hot dogs you may encounter.

Pizza pop up

Difficulty level: Similar to sorting out exactly which pizza seller is where and when this weekend

So many pizzerias have popped up in the past two years that this Halloween costume doesn’t even have to state which one you want to be. All you need to open your portable pizza pop-up – uh, costume – is a large pizza box. Pin the bottom to the top of your thighs and the top to your shirt so that it closes when you sit and opens when you stand. Don’t worry about having pizza in it, it will just sell out by the time you get there.

Bonus Points: Travel with someone dressed up as the Ballard Brewing District (see below).

King salmon

Difficulty level: Like a fish climbing the salmon ladder at Ballard Locks, this requires quite a bit of effort.

Put a silver hoodie and flaky silver leggings together with a pair of silver cardboard fins, draw salmon lips on a disposable mask, and throw on a crown. Have a bag of smoked salmon candy handy for trick-or-treaters, or offer one to anyone who can’t figure out what the hell you’re supposed to be.

Bonus Points: Get Copper River Salmon Certification by adding a sticker to your costume.

Stoup brew jars

Pragnesh P. via Yelp

Ballard Brewing District

Difficulty level: Harder than ignoring the Cycle Saloon as it passes while you try to eat outside on Ballard Ave, but easier than snagging outside seating on a sunny Saturday night.

Use fabric paint or yellow tape to draw a dotted line on the front and back of each leg of black or gray sweatpants, and along the front and back of the center and arms of a matching sweatshirt. Think of your torso as roughly at the intersection of 11th Avenue NW and NW 52nd and peg it with an empty can of Stoup. Map the rest of the neighborhood with empty beer cans from all the breweries in the neighborhood. Try to plan ahead so you won’t have more than a dozen beers before you leave the house (don’t forget to rinse them off first).

Bonus Points: Bring your dog or children to fully capture the feeling of drinking in Ballard.

Additional Bonus Points: Wear a vintage Bardahl Oil hat to complete the pictures.

Californian looking for burrito

Difficulty level: More difficult than explaining the fascination of Dick’s drive-in to a die-hard In-N-Out fan

To complete this look, you need to fit every California stereotype. You can choose between the San Diego Surf Bum (messy beach hair, sublime hoodie, board shorts) or the San Francisco Tech Bro (Patagonia vest that opened just wide enough to reveal the tech start-up logo on the shirt or hoodie, Apple Watch ) choose, or create your own. You need a large burrito, with the foil unwrapped, and a few bites to reveal the inside. But the real strength here lies in the facial expression – either throughout the night or (expert level!)

Bonus Points: Carry a basket of lemons or avocados for trick or treating and say, “I can’t believe how expensive these are. They came from my friend’s garden, they grow everywhere down there! “