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Three New CSAs Bring Local Goods to Your Doorstep
Seattle’s newest CSAs take local produce boxes to the next level
!–paging_filter–p’Tis the season of community supported agriculture (CSA) boxes, those parcels of produce that support local farmers, but sometimes leave us wondering what to do with five pounds of kohlrabi. This year, a new brand of luxury CSA has arrived, offering boxes that leave less up to the recipient’s ingenuity by pairing veggies with house-made…
Restaurant Titans Team Up to Open ‘Tavern Hall’ in Bellevue Square This Summer
!–paging_filter–pThe brothers behind stronga href=”http://www.cactusrestaurants.com/” target=”_blank”Cactus/a/strong restaurants (Marc and Bret Chatalas) are partnering with the duo behind stronga href=”http://www.vontrapps.com/VonTrapps/HOME.html” target=”_blank”Von Trapp’s/a/strong, stronga href=”http://bastilleseattle.com/” target=”_blank”Bastille/a/strong, stronga href=”http://www.vivapoquitos.com/Poquitos/VivaPoquitos.html” target=”_blank”Poquitos/a/strong and stronga href=”http://stoneburnerseattle.com/” target=”_blank”Stoneburner/a/strong (James Weimann and Deming Maclise) to bring stronga href=”http://www.tavern-hall.com/” target=”_blank”Tavern Hall/a/strong to Bellevue./ppThe 9,500-square-foot restaurant is taking over the former Munchbar space, just off…
The Perfect Mother’s Day Gift: Custom-Crafted Silhouettes
Local artist Kerry Cook shares the classic art of silhouettes
!–paging_filter–pDistinctive, striking—and, ahem, a perfect Mother’s Day gift—custom-crafted silhouettes are like snapshots from another era. While the heyday of the silhouette may have come and gone, it remains a popular way to capture a child at a certain age, thanks in part to practitioners such as Bellevue’s Kerry Cook (a href=”http://www.papershadows.com” target=”_blank”papershadows.com/a), who honed her…
Mossback Monday: Meet Sound Transit’s ‘Baby Bertha,’ Amazon News and the Coming Coffee Apocalypse
!–paging_filter–div class=”storify”script src=”//storify.com/seattlemag/mossback-monday-45.js?header=falseborder=false”/scriptpnoscript[a href=”//storify.com/seattlemag/mossback-monday-45″ target=”_blank”View the story “Mossback Monday” on Storify/a]/noscript/div
Tomorrow’s Tastemakers: Jonathan Proville of Il Corvo
Welcome to Tomorrow’s Tastemakers, a recurring column that focuses on Seattle’s new guard of culinary influencers. Jonathan Proville, 31, is one of the rockstar cooks at Il Corvo. He was born in Los Angeles to French parents, who moved the family back to France when J.J. was 10. He went to college in Montreal for…
Custom Car Mats to Spiff Up Your Ride
A Seattle home decor company brings design out of your dreams and into your car
!–paging_filter–pDefiled by muddy feet, spilled lattes and crushed Cheerios, the car mat doesn’t get much respect. In fact, unless they’re being scrubbed, car mats aren’t given much thought at all. But Seattle-based high-end home furnishings company Curran (a href=”http://www.curranonline.com” target=”_blank”curranonline.com/a) aims to raise footwell fashion to new heights. In January, the Web retailer (with a…
Diane von Furstenberg Opens First Northwest Store in Bellevue Square
!–paging_filter–p2014 is a landmark year for renowned designer Diane von Furstenberg: Her iconic wrap dress turned 40, and on May 1, she opens her 95th store, in Bellevue Square near Center Court. “The Seattle area is so gorgeous,” says von Furstenberg. “Itnbsp;is blessed with the most beautiful nature and filled with so much creativity and…
Restaurant Openings, Closings More
!–paging_filter–pKeeping track of restaurant news can be a daunting task. Here’s a round-up from the past week to help you manage./ppemGot a question, hot tip or need a dining suggestion? Feel free to/emnbsp;ema href=”mailto:julien.perry@tigeroak.com“email me directly/a/emem.nbsp;/em/ppstrongspan style=”font-size: x-large;”Openings/span/strong/ppstrongBallard/strongbra href=”http://www.eatatporkchop.com/” target=”_blank”Porkchop Co./a is now open in the old Belle Clementine space on Leary Ave. (next to…
Mark Your Calendar for Seattle Tilth’s Edible Plants Sale
Seattle Tilth’s Edible Plant Sale takes place on May 3-4. Take your pick of tantalizing veggies, including heirloom varieties and an extensive selection of culinary herbs, edible flowers and drought-tolerant perennials. There’s also plenty of summer gardening plants, aka “warm season” crops, like tomatoes, peppers and squash. The Early Bird Sale Friday (5/2) 5-7 p.m.,…
New Downtown Seattle Restaurant Aragona Charms with Spanish Food and Sophisticated Decor
The latest from chef Jason Stratton is a fresh take on the food of northern Spain
!–paging_filter–pIn order to learn and remember new things, the brain creates pathways, or associations, between events and language. These “associative memories” are like electrical currents inside the brain that fire all day long, though we’re almost always unconscious of this happening. It can be as simple as someone mentioning a href=”http://\/\/seattlemag.com/article/pike-place-market-holy-grail-cheap-eats-0“Pike Place Market/a. Depending on…
Smoked Salmon Deviled Eggs at RN74
!–paging_filter–pThey are a thing of beauty, a href=”http://\/\/seattlemag.com/rn74“RN74’s/a smoked salmon deviled eggs ($10). a href=”http://\/\/seattlemag.com/chef-confidential-time-rn74s-david-varley-acci…“Chef David Varley/a has created a more sophisticated and incredibly balanced version of the classic party snack. Slivers of house-smoked salmon are draped across each egg, topped with salmon roe (ikura), shallots two ways (pickled and fried) and a tiny dill…
The African American Film Festival, a Nate Silver Lecture and ‘Bethany’ Shines at ACT
!–paging_filter–pstrongMust Seeembra href=”http://bit.ly/1f82nMi” target=”_blank”Bethany /a/ema href=”http://bit.ly/1f82nMi” target=”_blank”On Stage at ACT/a/strongbr(Through 5/4, times vary) — A middle-class woman hits the financial skids after the economic downturn, forcing her to use whatever means necessary in order to get her daughter out of foster care—including squatting in a foreclosed house occupied by a possibly unhinged man. Laura Marks’…
Road Trip Idea: Astoria, Oregon
!–paging_filter–pstrongWHERE: /strongThe historic port city of Astoria, Oregon, the oldest American settlement west of the Rockies. strongWHY:/strong For the kickoff of the seasonal Sunday Market (5/11–10/12; a href=”http://www.astoriasundaymarket.com” target=”_blank”astoriasundaymarket.com/a). strongWHAT: /strongMore than 100 rotating local vendors offer everything from handmade goat’s milk soaps to guitars made out of cigar boxes to mountains of delicious local…
Want to Survive a Tsunami? You’ll Need One of These
A local engineer invents a sphere that can survive a tsunami
!–paging_filter–pDeeply troubled by recent natural disasters in Japan and Indonesia, former Boeing engineer Julian Sharpe saw a need to reimagine tsunami survival. His solution? The Survival Capsule (a href=”http://www.survival-capsule.com” target=”_blank”survival-capsule.com/a), a brightly colored, buoyant sphere, 4.5 feet in diameter, designed to enclose and protect people in the event of tsunamis—such as the towering wall of…
How to Plan a Detailed Road Trip
Sebastian Simsch made me do it. Well, he didn’t really make me do anything but he definitely lured me onto the open road. While I was catching up with the Seattle Coffee Works owner at his then just-opened Ballard store a couple of years ago, he started telling me about a road trip he had…
The Hart-Rios Family Road Trip: Seattle to San Francisco
Rachel Hart’s shorthand-style, iPhone travelogue highlights from her summer 2013 road trip with her family. (Expect exteme brevity, perhaps more than a few inaccuracies and omissions due to dozing off in the car). Our trip was abridged and modified from Tom Uniack’s amazing itinerary from Seattle to San Diego. Find his itinerary and several others…
Throwback Thursday: What’s New at Spur
!–paging_filter–pemWelcome to strongThrowback Thursday/strong, a weekly column dedicated to the tried-and-true restaurants of Seattle and their secrets to staying relevant during an age of unrelenting competition.nbsp;/em/ppDana Tough and Brian McCracken have a href=”http://mccrackentough.com/” target=”_blank”three restaurants/a (and one turned event space) under their collective belt — Coterie Room, Tavern Law, The Old Sage and Spur —…
Visit Green Homes Big, Small and In-Between for Free this Saturday
The entire spectrum of local green design is on display in homes of all types—a 106-year-old Net-Zero Craftsman in Ballard to an under-construction 5-Star Built Green targeted house in West Seattle—this Saturday (4/26) during the 2014 Northwest Green Home Tour. The free annual tour, produced by a Built Green and Northwest EcoBuilding Guild, takes place from 11 a.m.–5 p.m. and…
UPDATED: 10 Things to Know About Elysian Bar, Opening Downtown Monday
Get excited for the latest watering hole that's opening downtown Seattle
!–paging_filter–pstronga href=”http://www.elysianbrewing.com/” target=”_blank”Elysian Brewing/a/strong is getting ready to a href=”http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/2013/07/urban-visions-plans-to-r…” target=”_blank”expand into downtown/a, opening strongElysian Bar/strong as early as Friday (in extreme practice mode). Yesterday, CEO Joe Bisacca and head brewer Dick Cantwell gave me spin around the place, which is quickly coming together near the corner of 1st and Pike, just down the hill…
The Latest Place to Drink in Woodinville
Woodinville’s Hollywood Tavern has a boisterous country charm—and a distillery in the backyard
!–paging_filter–pIn the middle of Woodinville winery country, around the bend from Chateau Ste. Michelle, The Hollywood Tavern (14508 Woodinville-Redmond Road NE; 425.610.7730; a href=”http://www.thehollywoodtavern.com” target=”_blank”thehollywoodtavern.com/a) delivers traditional tavern food with a gourmet shine alongside a well-considered cocktail list inspired, in part, by the new a href=”http://\/\/seattlemag.com.239elwb01.blackmesh.com/boozy-holiday-gift-alert-l…“Woodinville Whiskey Company /adistillery out back.brbrAn outpost in the expanding…
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