Seattle Mag
Mixed Results at the new Marché
Campagne's new makeover brings some hits and a few misses to the Pike Place Market.
Campagne closed a year ago to reopen as Marché last fall, with only middling success. On the bright side: The expanded bar is quite a good place to meet a friend for wine, outstanding pomme frites ($5) and a slab of chunky pork hock terrine ($8) dotted with pistachios and served on a wood plank….
Pulled-Pork Pizza
We love this new twist on putting pork on a pizza, perfected by The Flying Squirrel.
I have an old friend who insists that a pizza with anything fancy, anything beyond pepperoni and cheese, is “lasagna.” His head would surely explode if confronted with the awesome pulled-pork pizza at The Flying Squirrel: piled high with tender braised pork hunks, sprinkled with fresh cilantro and Cotija cheese, a few ribbons of red…
Build Your Own Soup at King Noodle
This International District noodle house is great for cheap—and interactive—eats.
If you’re a menu customizer—always asking for this or that on the side, extra veggies and such—get thee to King Noodle, stat! You’ll be presented with a two-sided menu to fill in: a choice of noodles (I like the chewy egg noodles and the wontons) and of broth (the chicken is delicious, but you can…
Seattle Rep Announces Next Season, Featuring ‘War Horse’
Seattle Rep is celebrating its 50th anniversary next season (September 2012-May 2013), and the theater has booked a trio of plays to represent a half-century of producing timeless classics, new works and big hits. It will be very interesting to see how they tackle the puppet master magic that made War Horse such a hit…
Hestia Cellars
Opposites make great wine partners at this new Woodinville winery.
Hestia, the Greek goddess of hearth and home, is a fitting symbol for Hestia Cellars. Winemaker and owner Shannon Jones came up with the name to honor the strong ties to Greece on his mother’s side of the family and the celebrations of his youth, complete with roasted lamb, wine and dancing. Jones’ path to…
Chino’s on Capitol Hill
With a welcoming radiance filtering out the front door, Chino’s provides a tiki-rific drink stop.
STREET TIKI When Chino owners Walter and Mari Lee decided to open a restaurant based around the Los Angeles street food they devoured in their youth, they matched those diverse culinary tastes with one of the defining features of L.A.’s liquor landscape: tiki. Honestly, it could have been an overly syruped and sweetened disaster, but…
Reuse, Recyle, Retreat!
The many new uses for discarded cargo containers now include camping structures.
Looking out the bus window on her commute into work at King County Parks’ downtown Seattle headquarters, Sujata Goel kept noticing more and more shipping containers piling up on the outskirts of the city’s sprawling port complex. Meanwhile, news stories started surfacing about how our trade deficit with China was leading to a glut of…
Does Seattle Need to Go to Transportation Fat Camp?
The city wants us to treat our cars like pizza: an occasional treat, not a staple. Knute Berger muse
I came across an ad in The Seattle Times from 1962 touting the advantages of going to Portland by train instead of car. “More fun and a lot safer,” reads the ad. “Only $4.95 Seattle to Portland Round-Trip.” And the kicker: “Costs less than a tank of gas.” Fifty years later, in an era when…
Crime Central: Can Belltown Make a Comeback?
Can this downtown Seattle neighborhood bounce back from a serious crime wave?
When Tim Gaydos takes visitors on a walking tour of Belltown, where he lives with his wife and two small children, he’s always a half-step ahead at a pace that can leave an out-of-shape companion gasping. As you catch your breath at a crosswalk while waiting for the light to change, he speaks in language…
Hunting the Wild Stinging Nettle
In Langdon Cook's world of scavenging for fresh ingredients,no pain means no nutritional gain.
Imagine our early hominid ancestors exploring outside the cave after a long, cold winter and enough jerked mammoth to convert the first vegetarians. The snow has melted, yet the ground is still brown—except for those fetching emerald shoots down by the river. Craving fresh greens, the hominids rush to pick these first signs of spring….
The Ladies Behind BroVo’s “Lady-Made” Liquor
These locally-made liqueurs put your palate in touch with nature.
With backgrounds in marketing and sales, Mhairi Voelsgen and Erin Brophy may not be your typical team of craft distillers, but then, their self-described “lady-made liquor” is not your usual Jack-and-Coke happy-hour drink. When Voelsgen and Brophy decided to create their own liquor brand, they aimed at setting themselves apart from other craft distilleries by…
Goodies Made with Green Tea
Thanks to green tea’s antioxidant-rich, metabolism-boosting superpowers, this is one craving you don
HIROKI For more than 10 years, chef Hiroki has been putting his own twist on the traditional Italian dessert, creating green tea tiramisu by blending matcha flavors into a secret-recipe filling to layer with the chiffon cake. A decade later, it remains the restaurant’s most popular item. Price not available. Wallingford, 2224 N 56th St.;…