August 2021
Recipe of the Week: Roasted Cauliflower and Black Bean Tacos
A vegetarian taco meal fit for any fiesta
If you haven’t yet made plans for Thursday’s Cinco de Mayo holiday, allow us to suggest throwing your own at-home fete with a few party-worthy dishes and drinks. This week, we look to Seattle-based foodie and Pine and Crave blogger Mackenzie Schieck for inspiration in the form of roasted cauliflower and black bean tacos with…
Three great Mother’s Day cooking classes
Eat Seattle (Pike Place) and Whisk (Bellevue) offer unique classes with mom in mind
Know this about Mother’s Day brunch: Pretty much every restaurant in Seattle has one. Some are better than others, and most will book up with reservations long before we write this. That’s why we decided to eschew a long list of restaurants and instead give you some cool cooking classes to take with mom anytime…
Online Rose Shop Brings Luxury to Flower Delivery
Seattle-based Roseur ups the flower-sending ante with its fine roses
“These are not your ordinary flowers,” says Sarah Berends, creative director and co-founder of online rose purveyor Roseur. “They’re for when somone really wants to make a statement.” Berends and her husband Allan Ghiassi launched their Seattle-based company, appropriately, this past Valentine’s Day with a goal of modernizing roses and creating a more luxury, thoughtful…
Decorating 101: How to Get a White Palette Right
If you’ve ever been in white-paint-swatch limbo, you know white can be tricky to work with
This article originally appeared on Houzz.com. White has long been beloved by architects and interior designers for its versatility and freshness. But as anyone who has ever tried to choose from among hundreds of shades of white paint can attest, decorating with white isn’t as easy as it sounds. We’ve pulled together the best tips…
Better Cinco de Mayo Drinks to Have Out and at Home
Get festive with tastier mixes that use spirits made in Mexico
Cinco de Mayo, in which we celebrate Mexico’s victory against the French at the Battle of Puebla, is this Thursday. Here in the U.S., it’s often commemorated with poorly made Margaritas. Break out of the trend this year, and do your celebrating with some tastier mixes that highlight spirits made in Mexico. We’ve three ideas…
Q&A with Singer and Musician Andrew Bird
The melody maker is coming to Seattle May 19 at the Showbox
When Andrew Bird, the warm-voiced singer and musician (famous for his whistling and violin playing), picked up the phone after I dialed the 14-digit number to reach him in Ireland where he was to play at the U.S. Embassy, he told me he’d been up for two days straight. “I left my house yesterday at…
Elevate Your Serving Ware with Elegant Teapots
Deborah Schwartzkopf's porcelain teapots are a notch above the usual serving ware
The dramatically different pottery styles of George Rodriguez and Deborah Schwartzkopf of Ceramistas Seattle make it hard to believe both of them create their work in the same West Seattle home studio. Rodriguez’s large clay figures can weigh as much as 300 pounds, while Schwartzkopf’s smaller-scale, porcelain teapots elevate serving ware. But despite their dissimilar…
This Busy Family Achieves Balance in their Home
A Mercer Island house is an exercise in the ever elusive work-life balance
Of course, there’s no such thing as having it all. But Thellea and J.C. Leveque, both with hyper-demanding careers (he’s a neurosurgeon, she’s an ophthalmologist), active lifestyles (they bike, ski and sail), two young children and a labradoodle named Echo, have managed to pull off a pretty impressive work-life balance. And it’s mostly thanks to…
Amandine Bakeshop is Officially Open
The long-awaited Capitol Hill bakery from Sara Naftaly takes pastries to a new level
No one can stop talking about Amandine Bakeshop, Sara Naftaly’s long-awaited spot on Capitol Hill’s Chophouse Row. Building delays resulted in the former Le Gourmand pastry chef opening this sweet, mauve-wallpapered streetside café a year behind schedule. As a result, many of us are now making up for lost treats time. Giant, saucer-like macarons ($3–$4)…
Jarr Bar a Welcome Addition to Lower Pike Place Market
Blink and you might miss Bryan Jarr’s intimate new tapas bar
After shuttering the much-loved Madison Park Conservatory in 2014, co-owner Bryan Jarr took off on a food research expedition through Spain and Portugal. Jarr, who is co-author of In the Kitchen with the Pike Place Fish Guys, went to study traditional seafood preservation at several Spanish and Portuguese canneries. Along the way, he fell in…
Bellingham’s Brewery Scene is Booming
Exploring the Northwest's budding beer destination
Beer aficionados from across the region are beginning to recognize Bellingham, Washington state’s 12th-largest city and a two-hour drive north of Seattle, as one of the Northwest’s budding beer destinations. On weekends, brewery taprooms are brimming with locals mingling with beer tourists from British Columbia, Seattle and points beyond. Even the data analysis website Pricenomics…
Must List: Kinky Boots Returns, Edible Plant Sale & More
What to do this weekend in Seattle
Must GawkThe Seattle Modern Home TourSaturday (4/30, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.) It’s time for the fifth annual Seattle Modern Home Tour, a self-paced, self-driving cavalcade to eight architecturally significant homes in the city. The design-obsessed will have the opportunity to walk through each home and meet the local architects behind the designs. Notable names…