Food & Drink
Fashion Friday: New Fremont vintage stop, locally-made wood iPhone covers and a peek inside Guesthouse
Vintage Closet has a new sister shop in Fremont, and our new favorite iPhone accessory
Fridays before long weekends are always especially sweet, aren’t they? We’re adding to that happy, fuzzy Friday feeling with three new finds we are obsessing over: I have a bit of a boot problem, and cowgirl boots? Look out debit card; you’re about to take a major hit. I frequently haunt Suzie Jarvis’ awesome little…
Behind the Scenes of our June Issue: Ice-cream Headaches and Heady Debates
Our editors are still recovering from GelatoGate 2011, the week-long orgy of ice-cream eating that preceeded our June issue (on newsstands today). Our award-winning and downright awesome food editor Ali Scheff made the picks, our fantastically talented art director Sue Boylan called in the props, and then it was ice cream everywhere for two weeks…
Bake Sale Averted: Coca-Cola’s Big Donation Funds the Seattle Fireworks
One Reel Gets Busy Planning "One Heck of an Independence Day Party for Seattle"
A $25,000 donation by Coca-Cola has just closed the gap on funding Seattle’s annual 4th of July fireworks display (“Family 4th at Lake Union”), proving for the second year in a row that the show can go on without a major title sponsor (so, no, it won’t be called the “Coke Family 4th”). Organizers at…
Free Scoop Alert! Molly Moon’s Celebrates Madrona Shop Opening with Free Kids Scoops Today
After putting a call out via social media for votes on where the third Molly Moon’s Ice Cream shop should open (and drumming up an impressive amount of neighborhood enthusiasm in the process), Molly Moon Neitzel has decided to open not one but two new shops, one in each of the top vote-getting ‘hoods. First…
Grace Kitchen Bringing Comfort Food via a Local Celeb Chef to University Village
Even though he’s in real estate now, Billy Poll says he feels like he grew up in the restaurant industry. The longtime Schwartz Bros employee is now one of the owners of the soon-to-open Grace Kitchen at the University Village. Poll told me the opening is slated for August; the restaurant is moving into the old Zao’s locale. Grace Kitchen…
Revel: Genius Food In a Silvery Sleek Space
Allison Austin Scheff gives nod to another spectacular winner from Rachel Yang and Seif Chirchi.
Sometimes, it’s easy to fall into “other city” envy. What’s not to like about Portland’s utopian indie scene, Vancouver’s dim sum and Japanese food, Chicago’s thrilling modern cooking, New York’s delis, bagels—everything? But when a restaurant like Revel comes along right here at home, it’s one more notch in our belt, and the competitive food…
La Rêve: Bakery Review
Sweet and savory pastries and tasty lunches at a quaint Queen Anne spot.
In a city with its fair share of sensational bakeries, 6-month old Le Rêve on Queen Anne Hill fits right in. Let’s start with the kouign amann, or Breton butter cake ($3.75)—a wonder of butter, pastry and sugar that bakes into a caramelized, utterly divine experience (watch your back, Honoré!). Owners Sharon Fillingim, who grew…
Best Seattle Restaurants 2011: True Value Lunches
More Chow, Less Moolah. True Value Lunches.
MORE FROM BEST RESTAURANTS 2011 Splurge-worthy Meals Get the Most For Your Money True Value Lunches Happy Hour Bites How to Dine on a Budget How to Get the Best Value When Ordering Wine Directory Readers’ Choice $6.50Kimchi fried rice bowl at MARINATION MOBILE (food truck): Spicy, stinky (in a good way!), with…
Wild Salmon at Etta’s
Allison Scheff devours Etta’s early season salmon.
In June, the Pike Place Market comes fully alive: Vendors’ tables are crowded with grassy snap peas, ruby red and golden beets, and bundles of fragrant sweet pea flowers (just $5). And, of course, there’s that one item you’ve been waiting for all year: chubby early-season wild salmon, glistening on ice at every one of…
Fashion Friday: Two new clothing shops, Forbidden Fashion Show + spring cleaning sale at Nube Green
Scout and Jack Jerome open up shop and the Forbidden Fashion Show gets racy at SAM
Happy Friday! Since most of us are itching to get up from our desks and out into the sun, here are four shopping and style stops to make while out and about this weekend: New clothing shops: I repeat, new boutiques! Two new local men’s and women’s clothing houses have opened in the past few…
What’s Next for the Seattle Waterfront? Get a Preview at a Public Meeting Thursday Night
The event will feature a preview of proposed design plans, plus food (to buy) and live music
While politicians, judges and activists argue over all things tunnel, planners are busily imagining what a post-Viaduct Seattle waterfront will look like. Thursday, at the Bell Harbor Conference Center (2211 Alaskan Way, Seattle), design project lead James Cornwaterfer will present the “first design directions,” which I take to mean “rough draft.” The public meeting, hosted by the City…
Sneak Peek: Skillet Goes Brick and Mortar with Its New Capitol Hill Restaurant
Street food comes in from the cold on Capitol Hill
Joshua Henderson opened Skillet, his mobile street food truck, in 2007 after figuring out that he didn’t like working in restaurants. He just wanted to focus on the food: making it good and bringing it to the masses without all the fuss and ritual of creating an “experience.” Now, four years later, after amassing a…
Restaurant Review: Blackboard Bistro
Romantic appeal but an uneven menu at this new West Seattle spot
Almost a year ago, Jacob Wiegner left Spanish-romantic Olivar on Capitol Hill to open his own place in a revolving-door storefront at the West Seattle Junction (in four years it’s been five different restaurants). But let’s hope, for the sake of gnocchi, this one sticks. Wiegner’s potato pasta puffs are lovely—fluffy, light and seared on…
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