Dining
Holiday Party Prep: Ready Your Supplies
This article originally appeared on Houzz.com. Why wait until the day before your party to find out you’re short on coffee mugs and the silver is tarnished? Get a jump on things by sorting out your entertaining supplies, shopping for missing pieces and making room in your kitchen … before you come home with five…
Home Decor that Looks Good Enough to Eat
Nothing says summertime more than a big bowl of sun-kissed fresh fruit. And it’s easy to bolster this sunny look in your abode (minus that pesky expiration date) by adding a fruit-kissed accent or two. Just pick up a pair of Pear Salt-and-Pepper Shakers ($19), available in speckled white or golden bronze, new from West Elm (South…
Why the Best Friends Are Farmers…And Goats
Prepare to feel pangs of jealousy! A girlfriend messaged yesterday to ask if I was free to accompany her to a unique fundraiser that night that her date was too sick to attend. Not just any fundraiser, but a dinner at Western Bridge owners William and Ruth True’s house in Madison Park. A dinner featuring…
Portland’s Best Restaurants
Requisite restaurants for your next food trip to our culinary sister to the south.
Seattle’s food scene enjoys a bit of friendly (or fervent) competition with Portland. The two cities tussle over the James Beard Foundation’s Best Chef Northwest award each year, and Seattle’s recent overhaul of its food-truck laws was a blatant attempt to catch up with Portland’s long-standing dominance in the realm of street food. Clusters—or pods—of…
Trip Report: How Seattle Compares to NYC, Part 3
Catch up: Read Part 1 and Part 2 Friday is chock full of eating, and also of meeting: Anna Roth, whom I’ve had many friends in common with, who was a fellow Citysearcher back in the day, and who is the author of West Coast Road Eats. Yet it took until last week, in the Big Apple, for us…
Buzzworthy Microbreweries
Our favorite Puget Sound breweries specializing in 'small batches' and alternative brewing spaces.
By official definition, a microbrewery produces less than 465,000 gallons of beer per year. Around here, we simply think of a microbrewery as one of our local breweries producing delicious beers. Even the largest local microbreweries, such as Redhook in Woodinville, produce a minuscule amount of beer compared to the nationally recognized brands. The smallest…
Best Beers in Washington
Our favorite local ales, lagers and Belgians, plus helpful tips on distinguishing between the three.
Washington brewers produce a wide variety of delicious beers that span virtually all beer styles. Our favorite picks are from the styles that are most common around here and represent a range of beers—light, heavy, low alcohol, high alcohol, etc. For your drinking pleasure, we provide two or three suggested beers: one that is common,…
The Unusual Beer Guide
Walk on the wilder side with our picks for several distinctive, less-common styles to complete your
Barley WineNamed so because it has an alcohol content similar to wine (around 8–12 percent), barley wine falls into the beer category because it is made with barley, not grapes. Most barley wines feature strong fruit and alcohol notes with toffee flavors and hoppiness, although they differ greatly from the palette presented by an IPA….
How to Pair Beer and Cheese
Find tasty bliss using America's two basic food groups: beer and cheese.
Beer has found its place in the culinary world, with beer dinners, pairings and other events on restaurant schedules around town. You’ll even find beer in food. But beer and cheese? Absolutely, says Warren Peterson, chef and so-called “beer czar” of Tom Douglas’ new beer-centric Brave Horse Tavern in South Lake Union. “Beer is food…
Washington Craft Beer Directory
We asked our panel of beer experts to list their favorite local and regional breweries in the state
* = usually only available at brewery Baron Brewing/Tree Skulls Ales/Pillagers PubGreenwood, 8551 Greenwood Ave. N, No. 5pillagerspub.comBest brew: Three Skulls Blood Orange Wit Big Al BrewingWhite Center, 9832 14th Ave. SWbigalbrewing.comBest brew: Brougham Bitter Big Time Brewing & AlehouseU District, 4133 University Way NEbigtimebrewery.comBest brew: Coal Creek Porter Elliott Bay Brewhouse & Pub*West Seattle,…
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