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Best Seattle Restaurants 2011

Best Seattle Restaurants 2011

Each year, for the annual Best Restaurants issue, our critics go from luxe to low brow (and everywhe

There’s a special kind of magic that happens at the best restaurants, when everything comes together—charming service, scintillating company, great ambiance, flattering lighting (outstanding food is a must, of course)—and we walk out feeling as if dinner was worth every penny spent, even when we cringe a little the next day thinking about exactly how…

The Best Washington State Wines of 2011

The Best Washington State Wines of 2011

This year’s winners provide a snapshot of the shining stars in the industry’s firmament—the current

Washington grape growers and winemakers have always been experimenters, seeing what will work in our relatively young industry, but in the past few years, so much has changed that we are in the midst of what might be called the Age of Experimentation. With the past decade’s growth in the number of wineries (now at…

Boat Street Cafe's Best Brunch

Boat Street Cafe’s Best Brunch

There are breakfasts, and then there’s Boat Street Cafe & Kitchen's Rustic Cornmeal Custard Cake.

There’s really no better place to meet friends for brunch than at the Boat Street Cafe & Kitchen, which is tucked away on the far reaches of Belltown near the foot of Queen Anne Avenue North. Cool light spreads through the loft-like space; it’s the kind of place where crisp white linens, freshly cut tulips…

The Foodie's Blind Spot

The Foodie’s Blind Spot

Seattle mag food editor Allison Austin Scheff reconciles her struggle with eating only sustainable,

In January, seattle magazine’s Grey Matters columnist Knute Berger aired our dirty teriyaki-loving laundry all over the front page of The New York Times food section, when he was quoted in an article on Seattle’s love of teriyaki thusly: “Seattle likes to talk about local foods, about ridiculous things like fiddlehead coulis. Seattle yuppies love…

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