Wallingford Center

This place is great for a first date, or just to look around when its raining outside.
pros:
Cute shops and my favorite, old photos of the building and surrounding area throughout.
cons:
I wish there were more shops on the bottom floor.

This is a cute little shopping center with boutique type shops. Staff are smiling and friendly. The cupcake shop look amazing and if we hadn’t already eaten we definitely would have tried a few. Downstairs there is an Indian restaurant with an all organic buffet. I’ll be back to try that out. I think there is also a small preschool and art boutique as well. I don’t really see myself shopping in any of the shops, but I’ll be back to try the Indian food and a cupcake.

Wallingford Center is a cute little shopping center. They have some cute little nic-​nack shops and a trophy cupcakes and a Pharmica. I mostly come in for the cupcakes, honestly, but if I need a gift for somebody, it’s nice to check out the little shops inside.

***This shopping center has a really cool look; it is located in an old schoolhouse; they have some small shops and even a few food options inside like an upscale cupcake spot (they also have a good number of businesses that cater towards children with even children seating and play area options); given the size of the schoolhouse from the outside, I was surprised by the limited number of retailers inside; they could probably do more with the space, but they need more businesses to setup shop here; a lot of the space is dedicated to the cupcake shop, which has a dining area that is the size of a small neighborhood café***
I believe this shopping complex has its own free parking lot. Free street parking is also available.

I love coming to this little shopping center. Mostly because they have Trophy cupcakes inside! They have a good size free parking lot. Bathrooms downstairs (you need a code). Cute little shops.
Overall nice spot to waste a bit if time.

Great hanging out area with a play area inside. Parking lot outside with cute little stores inside!

I have always liked Pharmica, the staff are always knowledgeable friendly and helpful!
And today was no different! I went in to use a $ 10 coupon I got from being a part of their rewards program, I bought one of the glass water bottles and some zinc. After the lady at the cash register rang me in and did my $ 10 off I realized I grabbed the wrong water bottle. She refunded me the price of the water bottle, which ended up being more than I originally paid for both items, I was confused because while I wanted to make sure that when they re-​rang the new water bottle that I was still getting the $ 10 off, but I was more concerned that they were crediting me back too much.
The manager came over, to help sort out my confusion and ended up giving me an additional $ 10 off, when I explained that I wasn’t trying to not pay what I was supposed to she just said very kindly said «I know, I am the manager and am providing you customer service.»
I started to cry because of their kindness and unbeknownst to them I had received some very upsetting personal news the day before, they were so sweet and I cannot thank them enough. They are two examples of how great customer service and some human understanding can mean the world to someone they don’t even know!
Thank you thank you thank you!

This small shopping center has some great shops and looks really classy. However, they made one major mistake in their design. While they did a great job making it look nice and they have a large parking lot, which is hard to find in Seattle they completely forgot bike racks. In the middle of Seattle which is one of the most bike friendly cities, and in Wallingford where tons of people bike… they did not include one bike rack. This is absolutely ridiculous as I know a lot of people bike in the area– especially since I passed a good 8 people biking, WHILE personally biking there. I asked one of the workers in Pharmaca who said they had asked the owners of Wallingford center personally to add bike racks, only to be completely ignored. If you want me to lock my bike to your fancy railing, that’s fine. But I’m highly disappointed when a place in Seattle doesn’t offer a couple bike racks.

The art and craft shops are so adorable! This is such a unique shopping area in a quaint neighborhood.
If you’re hungry, there’s an adorable cupcake store for some sweets. They were so nice to let a young mother eat her home packed meal after buying a cupcake for dessert!
There’s also a clean bathroom downstairs but you need a code from merchants to access. They come with toilet seat covers!

The shops that are there are great. I love the old schoolhouse and especially the free parking lot. It seems that stores come and go as there were several empty, or being worked on. The fair trade shop was really cool but not ALL of the stuff is authentic, jsut some of it.

I recently went for the first time and loved the schoolhouse turned into a shopping mall thing. That being said, there are quite a few vacancies in the mall. Sad. But so true everywhere you go.
Here’s what you can do at the Wallingford Center:
1) Come here for the indian buffet in the basement level.
2) Browse naturopathic goods at the pharmacy. With a complimentary cup of tea.
3) Doodle on the chalkboard outside of the pharmacy.
4) Admire Seattle Public School archived photos of the school and its children.
5) Fawn over adorable old-​school, kid-​sized desk/​chair. But not sit in em.
6) Check out the store with hand-​made goods from all over the world. Nepal, Vietnam, Africa, etc.
Oh, and then there’s Trophy Cupcakes. It’s kinda hard to miss.

Cute place, I’m glad it’s there. Lots of neighborhood character.
I took a star off because the bathroom code was a bother to track down, and the air was *quite* polluted inside. jeez, it’s just so uncivilized! Why not fix this with air flow of some kind ??? ~ugh

Smaller than it appears, I also believe that this may be a duplicate location for this place.

The one and only Trophy’s Cupcakes found in the Wallingford Center. It’s a must try, sweet sugary yummy cakes!

I’ve always loved this neighborhood — I used to come here back in the Wingdome era! yikes that was a long time ago… but this place has really gotten some solid shops in here.
It used to be a lot of fluctuation of shops that sort of kept me away. I like the artsy feel in the whole of the building.

I was visiting from out of town and found this place on accident when I was in the area at another store. The building looked very cute, quaint, so I decided to stop in to see what kind shops were in here.
There aren’t that many shops and not ones that I personally would frequent, but it’s such a cute place to have a cup of coffee and hang out with a friend at the tables located on the main floor of the shop. I checked out Trophy Cupcakes. The shops here fit a certain demographic (and it’s not me and that’s okay), but even if the stores aren’t for you, the shopping center could be!

I love recycling. And I really like it when old buildings are reused and rethought — so they could live another life.
Built in 1904 as the Interlake Elementary School, this building has went from growing minds, to housing people (cool high-​ceiling apartments are upstairs), offering cool stores, and serving as a cool landmark for the Wallingford neighborhood.
My wife is here: Chutney’s Pomegranate Chicken (spice level: 3 – 4) [
My vice is here: Trophy Cupcakes (I gladly love being a giddy slob here).
I have plenty of good memories here, and I love draggin’ my peeps here to chill out now and again.

Cute mall, great shops. Shortest review EVAR!

As others have mentioned, this is a really cute indoor center with a few boutiques shops and places to eat as well as the home of the Wallingford Farmer’s Market where you can get fresh, organic, and locally grown fruits, veggies, pasta, etc.
Although I’m personally not a huge fan, it’s also the home of one of Seattle’s Trophy Cupcake locations which can make it worth your while. Parking is easy as there’s street parking as well as a private lot.

This is a cute little shopping center, indoors of course, located in the heart of Wallingford which sometimes hold their weekly Farmer’s Market. There are a good selection of stores of all types inside, although I do agree with he previous reviewer that there isn’t exactly normal food in this plaza.
They hold the famed Trophy Cupcakes which are to die for … sort of anyway and they’re extremely creative as well. The area and the whole center reminds me of just a large mansion somebody somehow bored out to make shops inside, none of which really have doors so it’s kind of an interesting, very open concept. I like the fact that they have parking so definitely +1 for that as parking in Seattle is otherwise extremely painful.