Eat & Drink
Counter Culture: Time Out Greek & American Restaurant
Cozy Mountlake Terrace gem delivers every time
Time Out Greek & American Restaurant, a hidden gem in Mountlake Terrace, has been serving up delicious comfort food since 2004. Founded by Emmanuel and Georgia Flemetakis, this family-owned restaurant is now run by the next generation of the Flemetakis family. The menu is packed with classic Greek comfort food, offering everything from gyros and…
Scramble for a Table
Where to eat Easter brunch around Seattle, even with the egg supply running low
Egg dishes are in high demand during Easter brunch. This year, that demand is running into a national egg shortage. Seattle Port Commissioner Sam Cho used to run Seven Seas Export, an international trading company that once shipped 2.5 million pounds of eggs to countries like South Korea during Asia’s bird flu outbreak in 2016….
Seattle Restaurant Week’s Feast Fest Kicks Off March 30
Diners can explore the city’s diverse food scene
Restaurant industry veteran Gene Dexter, wine specialist at Charlotte at the Lotte Hotel in downtown Seattle, has labored over his share of Restaurant Weeks since its inception in 2010. Dexter has also worked at places such as Monsoon, Ba Bar and the now defunct Union Square Grill. Participating restaurants, food trucks and pop-ups will offer menus at $20, $35, $50, and $65…
Simple Goodness
Plum Bistro chef and owner Makini Howell’s new cookbook makes vegan recipes easy
Plum Bistro restaurant owner and chef Makini Howell recently created some tasty vegan recipes for Stevie Wonder. Now she wants to do the same for you — sort of. Howell, who launched the popular vegan restaurant in Capitol Hill 20 years ago, just released a new plant-based cookbook, Simple Goodness: No-Fuss, Plant-Based Meals Straight From…
Seattle Chocolate Rebrands With Inspiration from Irish Queen
Company will now be known as Maeve
Seattle Chocolate is no longer. It is not, however, out of business. It does have a new brand and name: Maeve. The company, known for its meltaway bonbons and chocolate bars, rebranded after more than 30 years, drawing inspiration from a first-century Irish warrior queen who believed women should make their own choices, own land,…
Try These Emerald City Elixirs During Seattle Cocktail Week
Annual spirits soiree kicks off this Sunday
Seattle Cocktail Week founder Amy Faulkner is doubling down on the “Seattle” in Seattle Cocktail Week this year. The week-long festivities kick off Sunday, March 2 with an Oyster Happy Hour at Vinnie’s Wine Shop in Belltown from 2 p.m-10 p.m., and “Jimmy Jams,” a karaoke and cocktail competition at Belltown Yacht Club, also on Sunday from 7 p.m.-10 p.m. Seattle Cocktail…
Seila: Cambodian Food, Served Haute
Canlis alum Kevin Top shows Seattle the fancy side of Khmer cuisine
The line is long in the back half of Stoup Brewing’s Capitol Hill location, but everyone’s chatting excitedly, even strangers with one another. They’re all united by curiosity, waiting to try Chef Kevin Top’s fast-casual menu of restyled Cambodian dishes, which he’s also been serving in a dinner party format as a popup called Seila….
The Lure of Lamb at Hamdi
New Year’s Eve dinner features special roast
I want a perfume of the air inside Hamdi. It smells like fire, black pepper, charred herbs, almonds, oak. I want to wash my hair in it. I want a little vial of it to keep in my pocket and inhale on the train. Open since late 2022 on a semi-industrial stretch of Leary Way,…
Merry Fishmas: Feast of the Seven Fishes
Once rarely seen in Seattle, the traditional Italian Holiday dinner is gaining steam, ostensibly thanks to Hulu’s The Bear
As a born-and-raised Seattleite from a lapsed Lutheran family, I’d never heard of the Feast of the Seven Fishes, a traditional Italian holiday meal. That is, until I got hooked on Hulu’s The Bear, wherein a pivotal episode shows the fractious Berzatto family disintegrating over the dinner. Traditionally, “you would fast the entire day, and…
Rise and Grind
It’s no secret that we like our coffee. Here’s how much
How often do you go to Starbucks, or one of the many other coffeehouses throughout the city? Any idea how much you spend on coffee each year? What’s your bean budget? Turns out that Seattle is the third-best coffee city in the United States. Personal finance website WalletHub compared the 100 largest cities across 12…
Sweet Ambitions
Seattle baker Janet Tan brings her custom cookies to the Food Network
Janet Tan didn’t know how to bake when she moved to Seattle from Malaysia in 2013. With her husband busy attending culinary school, two young daughters at home, and no friends in her new city, she was looking for something to focus on. She stumbled across cookie-decorating tutorials on YouTube. Everything changed. “I had to…
Seattle Strong is on a Cold Streak
Cold coffee business was created in a college classroom
In 2017, Evan Oeflein wasn’t thinking about launching a cold brew coffee company. Like many students in the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business, he was just trying to complete a class assignment. But the Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship’s “Create a Company” program wasn’t your typical lecture — it pushed students to turn an…
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