We've been running escape rooms here since 2015, which means a decade of team lunches, post-game debriefs and “where do we take the birthday crowd?” decisions. These are the places we actually go: no sponsors, no kickbacks, just our favorites. Pair any of them with one of our 9 rooms and you've got a full day.
Serious food before serious puzzles. Burger debates are a protected team tradition; distances are walking time from the nearest Conundroom location.
Let's settle this right away: we're convinced these are the best burgers in America. Not just in Redmond. In America. Juicy, messy, unreasonably good, and exactly what you want after 60 minutes of puzzle adrenaline. Two minutes from our Downtown rooms.
Visit their site →The silver medal for burgers (Tipsy Cow keeps the gold, house rules), but the deeper menu wins: a proper local grill with great everything, screens for game day, and a happy hour that covers the whole restaurant. Trivia on Tuesdays, half-price bottles on Wednesdays.
Visit their site →The interior feels like one of our quest rooms went to Mexico: dark wood, candlelight and a serious tequila wall. One of the very few places in town where you can actually sit down with a proper cocktail. Their happy hour is one of the best around, twice a day no less.
Visit their site →If you want to be teleported into a genuine English pub, this is your place: low ceiling, soft carpet, a fireplace, a darts league and regulars who all know each other. It's immersive theater that happens to serve fish & chips. Warning: you will want to become a regular.
Visit their site →Pizza inside a 1960s spaceship. Owner Aaron built the whole interior with his own hands. As people who build escape rooms with our own hands, we bow deeply. Campy sci-fi on the screens, local taps, and the closest slice to our Willows rooms.
Visit their site →The best price-to-quality sushi in town, full stop. When someone on the team says “sushi?”, this is the place we all mean. Come early for the happy hour menu, stay for the chef's-choice nigiri.
Visit their site →Cocktails, coffee, dessert and ice cream. The puzzle arguments don't stop when the timer does.
The grown-up cocktail stop. Elevated food, a serious bar, and a daily happy hour with half-off charcuterie. If your escape-room victory deserves a toast with a proper drink, it's two minutes away.
Visit their site →Our partners: they brew the house beer for our axe-throwing venue, Pacific Axes. The best taproom in town: big open seating, a rotating food truck out front, trivia and comedy nights, kids and dogs welcome. Our default “we survived the escape room” debrief spot.
Visit their site →The only ones in town who take coffee really seriously. That's our honest verdict after years of, let's call it, extensive testing. Pre-game espresso headquarters.
Visit their site →A tiny corner of Europe next to our Avalon rooms: crepes, good coffee, and that unhurried sit-by-the-window feeling. The perfect slow start before an afternoon game.
Visit their site →Redmond's ice-cream institution, lines and all, around the corner from our Downtown rooms. The line moves fast, the scoops are worth it, and a post-game cone here is basically a Conundroom tradition.
Visit their site →For the flavor adventurers. Blue cheese + pear is a real team favorite here, and every flavor is a little unusual in the best way. The perfect victory scoop when you want something beyond vanilla.
Visit their site →Hosting a birthday in our party room, a corporate event, or a big night at Pacific Axes? These are the delivery and catering picks we trust with our own events.
Gourmet pizza with a point of view: unusual recipes, real ideas, seriously delicious. When you want the pizza itself to be part of the event, this is our recommendation.
Visit their site →Big, classic, thin-crust Italian pizza. When the group just wants the real thing done right, Pagliacci delivers, literally and figuratively.
Visit their site →The caterers we work with ourselves: they feed our events at Pacific Axes, and we have run about a million parties together. Full menus, reliable crew, zero stress. For corporate events and big celebrations, start here.
Visit their site →And if the crowd wants American classics, the big two never miss. Fast, predictable, and there is nothing wrong with that after a hard-won escape.
Visit their site →The night doesn't have to end after one game.
Full disclosure: this one is ours. Conundroom's sister venue. After out-thinking our rooms, go throw sharpened steel at wood four minutes away. Lanes, arcade and pinball, Postdoc beer on tap, a Monday league, and private events for teams of 10 to 45.
Visit their site →Beer plus a 9-hole indoor mini golf course built with Seattle artist Henry. Basically a playable art installation. Games everywhere you look. As you can imagine, that's extremely our kind of place.
Visit their site →9 themed rooms across 3 Redmond locations, all within a short walk of almost everything above. 100% private, 4.9★ on Google.
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