Seattle Mag
Hot Cakes
Delicious, decadent molten chocolate cakes-in-a-jar.
I pity the poor souls who’ve never tasted one of Autumn Martin’s decadent molten chocolate cakes-in-a-jar, baked to an oozy middle and deeply, darkly delicious. The Theo Chocolates (featured in our inaugural Seattle Food Establishment list) alum has been selling her desserts at local farmers markets to much acclaim, and so we’re thrilled to report…
Cooking with Szechuan Peppercorns
Lorna Yee sets taste buds buzzing with a spicy Szechuan peppercorn sauce.
What it is: Known to the Chinese as “hua jiao,” this numbing yet addictive spice zings taste buds with its slightly lemony flavor in many popular Szechuan dishes, including Grandma’s Pockmarked Tofu (or “ma po dou fu”). These small, dark brown pods are normally sold whole, then toasted and ground at home before being used…
Honest Biscuits
Light, fluffy, Southern-style biscuits get a local twist.
Although Art Stone launched his new company, Honest Biscuits, last October, he traces its roots to his boyhood in North Carolina, where he used to help his grandmother make traditional Southern biscuits. After moving to Seattle last year, Stone turned his childhood memories into a business, selling fresh biscuits at farmers markets. Like many Southern…
The Must List, featuring the Compost Cupcake, Funboy Watches and Jonah Lehrer
MUST TASTECompost Cupcake In honor of Earth Day, Cupcake Royale’s special flavor of the month is the odd, but delicious, Compost Cupcake. The chocolate cupcake comes with a capricious mix of extras thrown in, including coconut, coffee grounds, oats and Tim’s Original potato chips. Amazingly, the frosting really looks like compost, but…
Cupcake Royale Introduces Ice Cream, and Scores a Prime New Locale
Cake and ice cream go together like PB&J, but until now none of our local cupcake shops made both: you’d have to get a cupcake here and then get the ice cream there. Not for long! Demand, meet supply: Cupcake Royale is launching a cupcake-inspired ice cream line this summer. Flavors will include Salted Ganache…
Our Favorite Omelettes and Scrambles
Try these Seattle restaurants for a delicious new take on two beloved breakfast staples.
BASTILLE CAFÉ & BARLocal ingredients are key to Bastille’s menu, and the smoked salmon omlette is no exception, with organic eggs from Yelm, salmon from the Ballard Market (smoked in-house!), milk from Lynden (for the house-made fromage blanc) and herbs from the café’s rooftop garden. $14. Ballard, 5307 Ballard Ave. NW; 206.453.5014; bastilleseattle.com CAFÉ PRESSEChefs…
Toast National Poetry Month with Five Cocktail and Poem Pairings
Poetry should be celebrated year round, but it’s good, I think, to have one month of focused celebration, where we can gather with friends (and a glass in hand) and toast poets near and far, new and old, tall and short, formalist and free-verse. But what cocktails are appropriate when honoring poets? I recommend the…
Fashion + Style Finds: Funboy Watches, Sarah Loertscher Jewelry and Spring Wraphabillement Coats
I love lookbooks; it’s like getting prettily wrapped surprise your inbox. I was reminded of this today while scrolling through WyattOrr’s new books (more on those later, but exciting news: Seamless in Seattle winners Liise Wyatt and Karly Orr have released spring and fall collections under their collective label.) While I can’t share that one…
Visit Portland for Rothko Paintings and Good Eats
A retrospective exhibit of the abstract painter's career and two new eateries make the trek south ne
WHERE: Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon. WHY: For the Mark Rothko Retrospective (through 5/27; prices vary; 1219 SW Park Ave.; 503.226.2811; portlandartmuseum.org), which boasts 45 works by the Russian-born and Portland-raised painter, known for his rectangles of saturated color. The show spans the artist’s five-decade career, revealing his roots in figurative and surrealist work….
Sea-Tac Airport Rocks
The Seattle-Tacoma airport brings local bands to its airwaves.
Imagine you’re this close to missing your flight at Sea-Tac Airport, the family floundering in front of you has apparently never been through security before, and your departure has just been moved out to the N gates. From somewhere overhead, you hear the voice of a local rapper saying, “Hi. I’m Macklemore. Welcome to one…
Hello Poster Show at Cupcake Royale
You could own a limited-edition piece of art for a mere $20.
What image does the phrase “forces of nature” bring to mind? A tornado? Crashing waves? An apple falling on Isaac Newton’s head? Last winter, the Hello Poster Show (hellopostershow.com) extended a call for entries, asking graphic designers from all over the globe to translate the concept into bold, screen-printed posters—the best of which are now…
Three Tudor Homes For Sale in Seattle
Distinctive outside and cozy inside, Tudors are much sought after in Seattle.
What is the telltale sign of a Tudor? Outside, look for a steeply pitched roof, which gives a triangular aspect to the face of the house. Sometimes a double peak is employed, above a curved entryway. A decorative technique known as “false half-timbering” harks back to medieval building methods and is responsible for the distinctive…