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A 1958 Mercer Island Kitchen goes from design-dont to a definite do
Category: NW Home Articles Sandy and Jeff Condiotty’s 1958 kitchen—with its pale pink cabinets, white shag carpet and an oven serving as a storage space—was an eye-sore and a tight squeeze, where holiday meals, for example, meant much table turning and guest squirming. After touring a friend’s newly remodeled kitchen featuring a Henrybuilt unit,…
Tasting Notes: The Family Way
Winegrowers-turned-winemakers bring family legacy to their vineyards and wines.
Category: Tasting Notes More and more of Washington’s longtime farming families are moving away from traditional crops and into growing wine grapes, and are now seeking the Holy Grail—that chalice filled with their own premium Washington wine. After years of tasting the delicious, award-winning wines other winemakers have made from their grapes, these families—some…
Grapes Gone Wild: Washington and German Rieslings Go Head-to-head
Are Washington rieslings sweeter than the rest? Shannon Borg helps you discover some of the world's
Category: Eat + Drink Articles For three days in Woodinville this month, Riesling fans from around the globe—wine professionals, media and the public—will gather to explore this grape in its many variations, from bone-dry wines with crisp acidity to luscious honeylike dessert wines, at Riesling Rendezvous, a conference at Chateau Ste. Michelle winery that…
How To Cook A Wolf, Er, Bag Of Clams, the Ethan Stowell Way
We followed the famed Seattle Chef on his day off and learned some of his secrets for prepping bival
Category: Eat + Drink Articles If I had a bookie, I’d give him a call and wager big bucks that you’ve been to one of Ethan Stowell’s restaurants (Union, Tavolàta and How to Cook a Wolf ). Each one is a certified hit, and Stowell was recently named one of Food & Wine magazine’s…
35th Street Bistro Has Many Hits; A Few Misses
Our resident food expert visits the French Bistro after a new chef takes the reigns
Category: Eat + Drink Articles Romance fairly spills out the door at this quaint neighborhood bistro; it’s one of the prettiest dining rooms in the city, beset with antique tables, buttery lighting and a wall of windows that allows passersby to peek at dinner-daters perched on pillow-strewn banquettes. So when I heard that Tom…
Francophile Fever: A day with Chef Renee Erickson of Boat Street Cafe
End of summer. Too much zucchini. What’s a chef to do? If you’re Renee Erickson, chef/co
Category: Eat + Drink Articles The Plan: Spend the day experimenting with leftover zucchini The Dish: Zucchini Gratin with Beecher’s Flagship Cheese THE HOME FRONT: Erickson’s house is in Ballard, not France, but you can imagine yourself there with minimal daydreaming (or a couple of glasses of wine). She travels to France once a…
If Reinvention is Tricky, Table 219 is Reborn, Sort of
Table 219 offers creative comfort food in a hit or miss menu aimed at filling bellies more than sati
Category: Eat + Drink Articles Table 219Reinvention is notoriously tricky when it comes to restaurants, so Gary Snyder and Stacey Hettinger faced an uphill battle when they decided to close Capitol Hill’s El Greco, the beloved Mediterranean stalwart they’d owned since 2002, and replace it with Table 219, a loungy date spot with a…
Pretty Desserts Beckon at Kirkland’s French Bakery
This recently opened Eastside spot will have you aching for a bite of their sweet and affordable tar
Category: Eat + Drink Articles A gorgeous crimson strawberry, a pair of aubergine blueberries and two slices of kiwi sit prettily atop a thin layer of pastry cream and a shortbread-cookie-like crust in The French Bakery’s delicious petite fruit tart ($3.40). It’s one of a dozen or so alternating desserts that fill the display…
Stick ’em Up: The Many Faces of Corn on a Stick
Seattle's newest novelty food craze is roasty, toasty and, oh, so good.
Category: Eat + Drink Articles Just a year ago, there was nary a roasted-corn stand in sight. Today? There are at least four in Seattle: one in White Center; one on Beacon Hill; I’ve even spied one downtown at Fourth and Pine. But my favorite spot for sweet, hot corn-on-a-stick ($2.50) is at Tony’s…
Virginia Inn: A come-as-you-are Tavern in a Tourtist-heavy Locale
Renovated in April, Viringia Inn's history will charm you if the the fare doesn't.
Category: Eat + Drink Articles Just knowing it was built before your grandparents were born is a big part of the appeal of Virginia Inn, a friendly, come-as-you-are corner tavern that feels like a local joint in spite of its tourist-heavy locale. Owners since 1981, Patrice Demombynes and Jim Fotheringham concluded a fastidious renovation…
Poppy Love
He presided over our region’s most celebrated restaurant for 17 years. But when new inspiratio
Category: Eat + Drink Articles It’s dusk on a lovely May afternoon in chef Jerry Traunfeld’s lush Ravenna backyard. In garden terms, it’s still early for many flowers, and spring greens dominate the scene. A hopvine has just begun to twine itself up the fence, and a bay laurel tree shivers in the breeze….
Make It Work! Seattle’s Arts Enablers: Lyall Bush
Category: Arts + Events Articles In 2006 Lyall Bush took over the directorship of Richard Hugo House (hugohouse.org), Seattle’s premier center for writing and reading. Since then, he has revamped the organization’s programming by curating eclectic showcases of nationally known writers, such as Rick Moody, and local upstarts, such as David Schmader, while continuing…