In celebration of National Night Out on Aug. 6, the community of White Center put their business core's best on display and offered a dizzying array of food options at only $2 a pop.

The mission statement for National Night Out is to bolster public safety in communities and neighborhoods, bringing folks together with law enforcement to meet, greet and, ideally, make pacts to watch out for one another and maybe even form a formal block watch.

It's also simply about having a good time, and White Center made that happen.

Eighteen restaurants, bars and breweries created $2 specials for the night and families flooded 16th Ave. S.W. (and the surrounding area) to take advantage. Included in that list were:

Triangle Pub
3.14 Bakery
Uncle Mike's Superlicious BBQ
Full Tilt Ice Cream
White Center Market
Queen's Deli
Proletariat Pizza
Caffe Delia
Zippy's Giant Burgers
Crawfish House
Bahn 88
La Fondita
Company
DK Cafe
El Salvadorean Bakery
Big Al (Beer garden)
El Paisano Rosticeria y Cocina
Super Charge (snow cones)

In addition, Center Studio provided free yoga and zumba classes while the White Center Community Development Association put on workshops for emergency preparedness and bike repair.

White Center's Night Out Block Party was put on by the White Center Chamber of Commerce in cooperation with the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods and the White Center Community Development Association.