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A Guide to Seattle Pick-up Games, For When You Feel Like Playing
There are plenty of no-strings-attached sports in Seattle that you can play on a drop-in basis.
In this entrepreneurial town, we like to do things on our own time and that includes being active. Whether there’s one last work project that can’t wait or The Bachelorette conflicts with your Monday night tennis league, having a weekly team sport commitment just doesn’t always jive with our free-spirit attitude. Perhaps that’s why Seattle has such a…
Revel: Genius Food In a Silvery Sleek Space
Allison Austin Scheff gives nod to another spectacular winner from Rachel Yang and Seif Chirchi.
Sometimes, it’s easy to fall into “other city” envy. What’s not to like about Portland’s utopian indie scene, Vancouver’s dim sum and Japanese food, Chicago’s thrilling modern cooking, New York’s delis, bagels—everything? But when a restaurant like Revel comes along right here at home, it’s one more notch in our belt, and the competitive food…
Cheap Eats: Fuji Bakery
A sensational bakery opens in Seattle's International District.
My colleague Lorna Yee sent me an e-mail raving about Fuji Bakery in Bellevue, but before I could cross the bridge for a treat, word hit that there was a Fuji opening in the International District. Soon after, on three compulsive visits—I couldn’t stay away!—I tasted more than my share of goodies, and there wasn’t…
La Rêve: Bakery Review
Sweet and savory pastries and tasty lunches at a quaint Queen Anne spot.
In a city with its fair share of sensational bakeries, 6-month old Le Rêve on Queen Anne Hill fits right in. Let’s start with the kouign amann, or Breton butter cake ($3.75)—a wonder of butter, pastry and sugar that bakes into a caramelized, utterly divine experience (watch your back, Honoré!). Owners Sharon Fillingim, who grew…
Best Seattle Restaurants 2011: True Value Lunches
More Chow, Less Moolah. True Value Lunches.
MORE FROM BEST RESTAURANTS 2011 Splurge-worthy Meals Get the Most For Your Money True Value Lunches Happy Hour Bites How to Dine on a Budget How to Get the Best Value When Ordering Wine Directory Readers’ Choice $6.50Kimchi fried rice bowl at MARINATION MOBILE (food truck): Spicy, stinky (in a good way!), with…
Wild Salmon at Etta’s
Allison Scheff devours Etta’s early season salmon.
In June, the Pike Place Market comes fully alive: Vendors’ tables are crowded with grassy snap peas, ruby red and golden beets, and bundles of fragrant sweet pea flowers (just $5). And, of course, there’s that one item you’ve been waiting for all year: chubby early-season wild salmon, glistening on ice at every one of…
Fashion Friday: Two new clothing shops, Forbidden Fashion Show + spring cleaning sale at Nube Green
Scout and Jack Jerome open up shop and the Forbidden Fashion Show gets racy at SAM
Happy Friday! Since most of us are itching to get up from our desks and out into the sun, here are four shopping and style stops to make while out and about this weekend: New clothing shops: I repeat, new boutiques! Two new local men’s and women’s clothing houses have opened in the past few…
If You Build It, We Will Come: City Rolls Out Concepts for a Reimagined Seattle Waterfront
Hundreds pack a public meeting to see early concept designs for a new Seattle waterfront
Imagine a Seattle waterfront composed of terraced parks that change with the tides…ringed by a two-lane bike path…with a stormwater collection system and solar panels and other sustainable energy sources. Walkability is key, and the waterfront is connected to downtown via public spaces, stairways, ramps and promenades. Those are some of the visions proposed by…
Columbia City’s First-ever Art Walk, When to Buy Cap Hill Block Party Tickets and More Top To-do’s for the Week
MUST WALKColumbia City Art WalkThursday (5/19) – One of our favorite Seattle nabes is kicking off its first-ever art walk tonight with a first ever art-walk kicking off with a tribute to Bohemian Backstreets. Get their on the earlier side for the art walk and street fair featuring visual art and live music. Night owls…
How to Season a Cast Iron Skillet
Take care of #1 pan!
(heat, fat, smoke, cool) Gentlemen, turn on your fans. Everything you’ve been taught about smoking fat needs to go right out the window. Steve powers through the step-by-step on this baby. You’ll never wonder how to do this again. Printable instructions? Click here. Cookus Interruptus is devoted to educating viewers about how to cook…
What’s Next for the Seattle Waterfront? Get a Preview at a Public Meeting Thursday Night
The event will feature a preview of proposed design plans, plus food (to buy) and live music
While politicians, judges and activists argue over all things tunnel, planners are busily imagining what a post-Viaduct Seattle waterfront will look like. Thursday, at the Bell Harbor Conference Center (2211 Alaskan Way, Seattle), design project lead James Cornwaterfer will present the “first design directions,” which I take to mean “rough draft.” The public meeting, hosted by the City…
Sneak Peek: Skillet Goes Brick and Mortar with Its New Capitol Hill Restaurant
Street food comes in from the cold on Capitol Hill
Joshua Henderson opened Skillet, his mobile street food truck, in 2007 after figuring out that he didn’t like working in restaurants. He just wanted to focus on the food: making it good and bringing it to the masses without all the fuss and ritual of creating an “experience.” Now, four years later, after amassing a…
Outdoors: Whistler Mountain Bike Park Opens Friday
This coming Friday marks the opening of mountain bike season at Whistler. The resort will open its eight signature biking trails, with the early season conditions best for intermediate and advanced riders. The Bike Park is open daily from 10am to 5pm until June 17 and then from 10am to 8pm starting June 18 through to…
Local 360 is Best During the Day
The goal of regional sourcing is eminently admirable, the food only occasionally so
We’ve all eaten at a hole-in-the-wall where, if it weren’t for food so good we crave it in our dreams, we wouldn’t set foot in the place. Local 360 is the opposite. Open all day, the combination restaurant and local goods market debuted in January in the old Flying Fish space, which owner Marcus Charles…
Restaurant Review: Blackboard Bistro
Romantic appeal but an uneven menu at this new West Seattle spot
Almost a year ago, Jacob Wiegner left Spanish-romantic Olivar on Capitol Hill to open his own place in a revolving-door storefront at the West Seattle Junction (in four years it’s been five different restaurants). But let’s hope, for the sake of gnocchi, this one sticks. Wiegner’s potato pasta puffs are lovely—fluffy, light and seared on…
Food News: Travelers to Bring Indian Home Cooking to Beacon Hill
Indian food is beyond scarce in the south end, but that’s about to change. Travelers, the friendly, soothing Indian decor, jewelry, clothing, etc store on Pine Street, is opening a full service restaurant on the north end of Beacon Hill in the can’t-miss-it purple house that housed Culinary Communion and the short-lived Tasha’s Bistro. I’m told…
Kelly Singer’s Tips on How to Rock Your Next Marathon
Foam rolling is one of the most important parts of your marathon training. Kelly tells you why and
It’s marathon season. And if you’re one of the many Seattleites training and prepping for your next race, Kelly Singer the scoop on to get into gear. The third annual Seattle “Rock & Roll” marathon is just six weeks out. The famed band-lined streets, flat waterfront course, and excited spectators have Seattleites out training for…
Bicycle Diaries: Essentials for Bike Commuting
In this series we ask Todd Sheer for some tips and tricks for making bike commuting a little easier.
Here are Greg’s “essentials” for bike commuting: “I was thinking about some of the “essentials” for bike commuting. It’s easy to find the list of the best lights or the best jacket or the easiest panniers, but here are some of my tricks for making bike commuting routine a little easier (or I should say…
Bicycle Diaries: Shopping for Groceries on Your Bike
In this series we ask Roddy Sheer for some tips and tricks for making bike commuting a little easier
As part of my ongoing series this month on urban bike commuting, I have pledged to do all my grocery shopping by bicycle. With a couple of tester panniers from Seattle-based Detours to help distribute my load, I am ready to roll. Last week on my initial bicycle grocery run to a Safeway a mile…
Bako, A Modern Cantonese Restaurant, Coming to Broadway in October
The Jade Pagoda, the long-lived but eminently cheesy Chinese place that lived on Broadway until it was shuttered a few years ago, was never about the food. No, it was the kitschy digs, the waiters dressed up in shoddy sailor suits, the bad (but strong!) cocktails that called to us…it was an experience. And the food was about as…
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