January 2008
Cafe Munir’s Fatoush Salad
The chef/owner of Ballard's Cafe Munir shares a favorite recipe using sumac.
INGREDIENTS 1 large piece of stale Arabic bread (which you can purchase at Goodies, or substitute pita) 1 small green bell pepper 1 small cucumber 2–3 radishes 2 cups purslane or mâche loosely packed (romaine can be substituted) 4 green onions Few sprigs flat-leaf parsley and mint 2 medium tomatoes, cut in wedges Dressing 1/2…
Cooking with Sumac
At Cafe Munir, chef Rajah Gargour reaches for this zesty Middle Eastern spice every day.
Yes, sumac is a small tree. But that tree bears bright red berry-like fruit, which is crushed into coarse powder the color of brick. In this form, sumac is the paprika of Middle Eastern cooking. It’s an essential ingredient that chef Rajah Gargour relies on daily in the kitchen at Cafe Munir, the wildly flavorful…
Go Green (Eileen) in Columbia City on April 20
Green Eileen is open in Columbia City. The store, at 4860 Rainier Ave. S, is the company’s first outside of New York, where 90,000 pieces of gently worn Eileen Fisher clothing have been resold and $1.5 million donated to charities. The idea behind Green Eileen is brilliant: for every piece of almost-new Eileen Fisher clothing…
Joss Whedon’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ to Open SIFF 2013
There will be much ado, indeed, at SIFF (Seattle International Film Festival) this year. The festival opens with Joss Whedon’s take on Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, starring Alexis Denisof, Amy Acker, Nathan Fillion, and Clark Gregg. The film was shot in twelve days, uses the original text and apparently was edited on a laptop…
Take Me Out to Eat at the Mariners Game!
It’s the Seattle Mariners home opener! Hooray! While hardcore M’s fans like my husband are pumped about seeing the new players – how about The Beast? Slugger Michael Morse is on fire, right? – I’m psyched about all the new food and drinks showing up around The Safe, especially at Edgar’s Cantina and the Home…
Going to My Happy Place
Editorial director Rachel Hart reflects on the bigger picture of our latest issue.
When my husband and I first bought our home, we felt somewhat banished in pre-cool Ballard. (This was 2001, and the sleepy Scandinavian burg was the most affordable neighborhood closest to Lower Queen Anne, where we’d been happily living in an apartment.) But then we stumbled upon Ballard Market and discovered that the humble-appearing grocery…
Charming Brunch Options at Wandering Goose
Wandering Goose is a little slip of a place—and charming for it.
The charms of Heather Earnhardt’s Wandering Goose are many: church pews for banquettes, lampshades made of flour sacks, poppies blooming royal red on the walls. In a slice of space adjoining Ethan Stowell’s Rione XIII (and visible through a stretch of reclaimed windows), the former co-owner of Volunteer Park Café is making buttermilk biscuit sandwiches…
Tanglewood Supreme: Eclectic Seafood
Dim lighting and a throbbing soundtrack aren’t exactly what you expect to find in a restaurant on a Magnolia side street, but at owner Kent Chappelle’s Tanglewood Supreme, which opened in October, the mood is refreshingly grown-up. Local moms meet friends to sip martinis and share sweet potato arancine (fried risotto balls, $5) with kale,…
What’s New at Coastal Kitchen
This Capitol Hill staple closed and reopened with some improvements.
After Coastal Kitchen’s 20-year run as a beloved neighborhood staple, its owner, Jeremy Hardy, closed the old girl for a few months to give her a facelift, including, most noticeably, a new bar for cocktails; the original bar is now dedicated to oysters. There’s also new talent in the kitchen: Jason Jones, who once cooked…
Drifting Arrows Swimwear Opens Online Mercantile
Swimwear line Drifting Arrows has announced the launch of an online mercantile filled with everything you need for the beach while wearing one of their hip, locally-designed suits, including espadrilles, a towel, sunnies and a floppy hat, and a chic bag to carry it all in. I’m dying over this site—it’s so cool. When the…
Feminism Can Be Fun
You really haven’t seen obscene hand gestures until you’ve seen them performed by a fully nude, slightly sweaty, winking blond woman. In playwright Young Jean Lee’s Untitled Feminist Show, playing at On the Boards through Sunday night, Amelia Zirin-Brown (aka Lady Rizzo) performs this hilariously filthy solo, using only her pantomiming skills and her incredibly…