Furtak's visit XXX Root Beer and Boehms Candies
Jason has a friend at Boeing that has turned into a local tour guide for the Furtak family. Each week he tells Jason about another location that is a must see in our area of Seattle (he was the one that suggested the Salmon Days Festival). Jason's Friend was surprised to hear that we hadn't seen XXX Root Beer or the Boehms Candy factory in Issaquah. As it turns out it's in a area of town that we have driven by but it's situated in such a way that we have always passed it.
On his advice, today we went and had burgers and a root beer at XXX Drive In and afterwords checked out the decadent chocolates and other confections at Boehms Candies.
The XXX Drive-In in Issaquah is one of a only a few XXX Family Restaurants left in the U.S. This restaurant is the only one that has the full size root beer keg left on the roof. The inside of the restaurant is full of old fashion car pictures and pop-culture 
memorabilia on the walls. The kids enjoyed the pictures of Elvis and the Monkees the best. Jason liked the old fashion car cam shafts and the old full size shell sign. Jason doesn't think he has been in a restaurant with so many fascinating things on the wall since the Bubble Room in Sanibel Island. On the advise of his friend at Boeing, Jason and Debra had a 32oz glass of XXX Root Beer and he was right, it's the best root beer they have ever tasted and worthy of the world class status. Sometime around the spring time XXX Drive-In has a classic car show where hundreds of old fashion cars come from miles around.
XXX Drive-In Links
Boehms is just down the street from the XXX Drive-In and according to the Boehms website, "From the most exquisite, rich, European-style , hand-dipped chocolate truffles to our classic chewy caramels and nut clusters, perfection is found in every bit that bears the Boehms label. "This is the type of Chocolate Factory one instantly smells once one opens the door in the parking lot. Their location in Issaquah against the mountains really gives this architecture a feel as if
we're in the Swiss alps. We did the window tour and watch some workers making various candies and we had the hardest time walking away without buying the entire store filled with chocolate.Boehms Candy Link
http://www.boehmscandies.com/
