Food & Drink

Café Pettirosso Steps Up Its Beverage Game With New Wine Program

Café Pettirosso Steps Up Its Beverage Game With New Wine Program

Stop by the neighborhood darling for approachable, affordable wine—from Washington reds to sparkling Franciacorta.

Reasonable prices and a clear vision for high quality food and drink has kept the restaurant relevant for decades in the ever-evolving food scene of Capitol Hill. The new wine program, spearheaded by general manager Jamey Lionhart, takes influence from the restaurant’s style, offering approachable, affordable bottles fit for brunching or dining any night of…

Playful, Heartfelt 'A Dance For Dark Horses' to Premiere at Velocity Dance Center

Playful, Heartfelt ‘A Dance For Dark Horses’ to Premiere at Velocity Dance Center

Seattle choreographer Kim Lusk's work riffs on a quirky cowboy lineage

bodies in motion Kim Lusk’s playful, heartfelt A Dance for Dark Horses debuts this month at Velocity

The Nordic Museum's Grand Opening is Coming Soon

The Nordic Museum’s Grand Opening is Coming Soon

After a decade’s worth of planning, one of the city’s most beloved cultural institutions has a new HQ

The view of the exterior looking eastward

Remembering Seattle’s Anti-Freeway Crusaders

Remembering Seattle’s Anti-Freeway Crusaders

Local activists are creating new online resources to remember the ways that people shaped Seattle (for the better!) in the 1960s and '70s

Seattle was anti-freeway before being anti-freeway was cool. Today we complain about the traffic, but the mainstream solutions of the 1960s and ‘70s would have made things much worse. We’re bringing down the Alaskan Way Viaduct–demolition is slated to begin in early 2019. Safety was a huge factor in replacing the earthquake-weakened structure with a…

Kirkland Cafe is Making the Area's Best (and Only) Durian Cake

Kirkland Cafe is Making the Area’s Best (and Only) Durian Cake

The Asian fruit tastes funky and smells worse, but if you're going to try it, eat it in cake form

Not quite a thousand layers, but 20 perfect crepes go into each cake.

Bring on the Bard: 30+ Seattle Arts Groups Will Be Celebrating Shakespeare

Bring on the Bard: 30+ Seattle Arts Groups Will Be Celebrating Shakespeare

Seattle Celebrates Shakespeare honors the world’s most famous dramatist with concerts, plays, musicals and more

This article appears in print in the March 2018 issue, as part of the Spring Arts Preview. Click here to subscribe. Before he leaves the 5th Avenue Theatre after the 2018 season, artistic director David Armstrong has a parting gift for Seattle: a citywide, season- and genre-spanning festival about the world’s most famous playwright. It’s called Seattle…

New Starbucks HQ Cafe Opens Today

New Starbucks HQ Cafe Opens Today

The Reserve store features innovative drinks, Princi baked goods and free parking

Is it still Starbucks without the coffee? Yes, yes indeed.

This Seattle Chef Makes Award-Winning Burgers

This Seattle Chef Makes Award-Winning Burgers

Brian Cartenuto at Queen City Grill in Belltown beat out Iron Chef Morimoto at the Best of the Burger Bash last year, and he's made Monday into Burger Night in Seattle.

Queen City Grill might be best known for its stellar Italian menu, but — shocker! — this Belltown restaurant also makes one of the BEST burgers in the city. Really! And they’re just $10 on Mondays, which is officially known as Burger Night. This retro cool restaurant that dates back to the early 1900s changed…

5 Author Appearances and Lectures to Check Out This Spring

5 Author Appearances and Lectures to Check Out This Spring

Featuring Anne Lamott, Ariel Levy, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Ijeoma Oluo, and more.

This article appears in print in the March 2018 issue, as part of the Spring Arts Preview. Click here to subscribe. A little bird—or a tweet, rather—told us Anne Lamott, best-selling author of Bird by Bird, will visit Seattle this spring. The author, whose other titles include Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith and Stitches: A Handbook on…

2018 Spring Arts Preview: The Full List of Can't-Miss Shows From Seattle's Galleries, Museums, Venues and Theaters

2018 Spring Arts Preview: The Full List of Can’t-Miss Shows From Seattle’s Galleries, Museums, Venues and Theaters

From the provocative to the sublime, this season’s shows and exhibits both reflect our times and rise above them. Here’s what’s in store this spring in the vigorous, vibrant world of the arts

Los Angeles-based street artist RETNA’s bold and graphic hieroglyphic set design in Seattle Opera’s edgy new production of the Verdi classic, Aida

Change is Coming to Seattle's Art Scene

Change is Coming to Seattle’s Art Scene

In this season of new beginnings, the city’s art scene is flush with change. Here’s a who’s who—and a who’s where—in the arts this spring

Rachel Cook

Lao Bar Now Open in Capitol Hill

Lao Bar Now Open in Capitol Hill

Two restaurant vets partner on a space to celebrate the food (and drinks) of Laos

Dried or grilled meats are a staple of Lao cuisine, and perfect happy hour finger food.

How To Do Emerald City Comic Con Like a Pro

How To Do Emerald City Comic Con Like a Pro

Make the most of ECCC’s pop culture extravaganza

This article appears in print in the March 2018 issue. Click here to subscribe. If you’re anywhere near the Washington State Convention Center (downtown, 705 Pike St.; 206.694.5000) between March 1 and March 4, do not panic; an alien invasion is not afoot. It’s just the 16th annual Emerald City Comic Con (ECCC). What was once a…

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