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Best Pasta Dishes at Local Italian Restaurants
Stunningly good pasta dishes run the gamut, from understated elegance to decadent and over the top.
Storied Italian women are said to sit on old stools set on cobblestone streets, rolling gnocchi off forks, pinching pasta into hankie shapes or cutting it into short tubes. Locally, pasta makers hand-cut fine, fresh pastas, too, and they are stunningly good. Our favorite local pasta dishes run the gamut, from understated elegance to decadent…
Handcrafted Noodles from Fremont’s Soba Studio
The owner of Miyabi 45th in Wallingford makes Japanese teuchi soba the old-fashioned way.
There are no shortcuts at Mutsuko Soma’s Fremont soba studio. Here, in a tiny, sunny room, she makes the Japanese teuchi soba the way she learned at soba school in Japan, which she attended in 2008, after working at Seattle restaurants such as The Harvest Vine and Saito’s. First, she grinds her own Washington-grown buckwheat…
Huge Sale: Canopy Blue, Sway and Cake and More
Head East to Kirkland’s Blue Luna (127 Lake St South) for a sale to beat all sales. Starting today, Thursday January 31 at 1 p.m. and running through Saturday, February 2 at 2 p.m., six designers and retailers, including Elizabeth Roberts, Canopy Blue, MB’s Finds, Sway and Cake, Blue Luna and Mandy Moon Vintage, will…
5 Superb Super Bowl Party Cocktails
The Super Bowl won’t be as exciting as it should have been this year. (If things had just gone a little differently, this post would be all about drinks nicknamed “Russell” and “Marshawn”). Alas, there are still fun game day parties to be had. And to make them more fun, can the cheap beer and…
Hoorsenbuhs Trunk Show at Barneys
Barneys is hosting a Pre-Valentine’s Day Hoorsenbuhs trunk show on Saturday, February 2 from 12 to 6 p.m. In addition to their soon-to-be iconic Phantom Ring (I’m obsessed with the rose gold and black diamond version), the brand ambassador will have lots of special order items, like blingy diamond studs and leather cuff bracelets, on…
Goodwill Donates Piece to Burke Museum
Those of us who love to treasure hunt at thrift shops often dream of finding a priceless score, either a long lost piece of art from an established master or a couture piece from a major designer—something that fits us perfectly or that we can sell for a huge return. Or, I guess donate to…
Nordstrom Partners with CFDA/Vogue for Fashion Fund Pop-Up
I was hit hard by a brutal cold this week, and the best thing to come out of it—aside from a newly found guilty TV pleasure in Nashville—I was able to catch up on The Fashion Fund*, a Hulu.com exclusive reality show that follows 10 finalists in the CFDA/Vogue contest of the same name, where…
Seamless in Seattle Designer is on Project Runway Season 11
Back in 2010 I was a judge for both the Art Institute of Seattle’s student fashion show and Seattle mag’s Seamless in Seattle emerging designer contest (details for the 2013 Seamless coming soon!) and Kent-based designer Cindy Marlatt was a winner at both of them for her flowing and ethereal creations. Another thing that made…
Spanish Retailer Zara Coming to Westlake Center
First it was H&M, then Topshop in Nordstrom, now Zara, the last holdout in the low-priced, high-trend, fashion forward European retail chains, is coming to Seattle. As reported by the PSBJ, Westlake Center is the future home of Zara, with an arrival date of early 2014, that may also coincide with a remodel of the…
Seattle Sniffs: Where Smart Noses Gather
Seattle is home to a blossoming group of sophisticated schnozzes.
Seattle has long been a hotbed of airplanes, coffee and technology, and now fragrance may be added to that illustrious list. Last summer, perfumer Christi Meshell created Seattle Sniffs, a community of more than 30 olfactory artisans who use oils in the pursuit of perfumery. Meshell, whose hand-blended House of Matriarch fragrance line is sold…
Cold Noodles Comfort
Discover the delights of cold noodles.
Legend has it that a female emperor in ancient China, suffering through a hot day, demanded her noodles be served cold instead of hot. It was her birthday that day, and thus began a tradition: Every birthday from that day forward she asked that her noodles be served cold. In modern-day Seattle, I think the…
Enthralling Cocktails at Golden Beetle
Bar manager Andy McClellan's drinks have been grabbing attention lately.
Nestled in the old Market Street Grill space in Ballard, the almost 2-year-old Golden Beetle has garnered notice for the Eastern Mediterranean–inspired cuisine created by executive chef and owner Maria Hines (Tilth). But lately the cocktails from bar manager Andy McClellan (previously of Lola and Palace Kitchen) have been grabbing attention. Amiable Atmosphere, MenuTwinkling multicolored…
San Fernando’s Roasted Chicken Deserves Praise
Chicken here is so tender that the juicy leg meat falls away from the bone.
At the friendly, primarily takeout San Fernando in the Central District, the pollo a la brasa (Peruvian-style rotisserie-roasted chicken) is so tender that the juicy leg meat falls away from the bone. The glistening, crisp-skinned chicken ($10 for half, $18 for whole) comes with a vibrant, tart cilantro sauce into which you’ll want to dip…
Harbor City: Our Choice for Dim Sum
The restaurant that changed our editor's dim sum loyalty.
One cold morning last winter on the way to our usual International District dim sum haunt, my family and I had to zigzag our way through the crowd waiting outside Harbor City, a stone’s throw from our destination. And so we decided to change course and wait alongside the shivering throng to see what all…
Grub: A Great Lunch Spot
Perfect for drop-in lunches and dinner with the kids, this Queen Anne spot is friendly and inviting.
There’s a sunny feel to Sharon Woo Fillingim’s new Queen Anne eatery, Grub, in the former Ototo Sushi space on Queen Anne Hill. Perfect for drop-in lunches and dinner with the kids, it’s friendly and inviting, much like Le Rêve (the bakery Fillingim helped open a couple of years ago). At Grub, everyone sits on…
Cheese and Company
The cheese plate at Matt's in the Market will change your posture on dessert.
When it comes to people’s tastes in dessert, some lean sweet, others lean salty and a few, like me, lean cheesy. So when I’m hoping to stretch the night for one more drink and I’m in the mood for a little “dessert,” the cheese plate at Matt’s in the Market does the trick. Five artisanal…
The Joy of Jam
Rebecca Staffel sweetens everything with Deluxe Foods’ preserves.
“Try us on toast,” reads Deluxe Foods’ preserve jars. But how about the spiced plum jam stirred into your tea, Russian style, or shaken in a gin cocktail? What about the pear butter with vanilla mixed in with steel-cut oats? Deluxe Foods’ Rebecca Staffel has a long list of uses for her award-winning preserves, and…
Best Asian Noodle Dishes in Seattle
Our favorite warm, savory noodle dishes from Chinatown and beyond.
ChineseHouse Special Barley Green Hand-shaven Chow Mein (shown above, left)at Shanghai Garden in Chinatown-International DistrictThe wide, tender green noodles (made with barley green powder) in Chinatown-International District’s most famous noodle dish are fresh—and taste as spring green as they look. They’re dressed in a light sauce with softly scrambled eggs, carrots, tender chicken, squiggly hunks…
Truffle Hounds
Renowned food forager Langdon Cook joins the dogs at the Oregon Truffle Festival.
I should have known this wouldn’t be a typical food festival. There were dogs everywhere: riding the Hilton Eugene elevators, pacing the lobby, even practicing in a park across the street. Luckily, they were trained only to find gourmet edibles, not eat them. These are truffle dogs, the working animals of choice for truffle hunters…
A Shoe-shining Legacy
Seattle’s shoeshine legend hands the reins to his heirs apparent.
“You know how James Brown says he gets ants in the pants and he needs to dance?” Morgan Perkins asks the customer sitting in the shoeshine chair. “Well, I’m the same with shoes.” The smartly dressed 72-year-old has been putting his famous military shine on Seattle’s shoes for 41 years—ever since he first walked into…
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