Seattle Mag
Best of Shopping 2008 Vintage
Category: Shopping + Fashion Articles Best Shop for Whimsical Vintage Clothes Pretty Parlor Capitol Hill, 119 Summit Ave. E; 206.405.2883Anna Lange, owner of this fanciful closet-like shop, is impossibly picky about quality of fabric, pattern cuts and great colors for the vintage threads she stocks. She also repurposes vintage pieces for her House of…
Joule Brings East and West To the Table With Korean and French Flavors
Category: Eat + Drink Articles It’s unique, when you think about it. Unlike most cities, where the heights of gastronomy are found in glitzy downtown palaces, many of Seattle’s most intriguing eateries are tucked into tree-lined neighborhoods, waiting to be happened upon by diners who never suspect they’re about to have their world turned…
Enotria in Laurelhurst
Seattle's food editor dishes on her recent meal and asks: Did I order the wrong thing?
Category: Eat + Drink Articles When I’m served a clunky dish in a seemingly popular restaurant, my knee-jerk reaction is to assume that I’ve simply ordered the wrong thing. That’s what kept running through my mind at Enotria, the dimly lit Italian date spot that replaced Laurelhurst’s Union Bay Cafe last August. The pricey…
Tigertail Adds An Asian Twist to Ballard’s Growing Nightlife
Category: Eat + Drink Articles The Vibe: Toned-down tiki, with soft golden lighting and a sorghum-topped bar, draws a diverse crowd: hipster overflow from local watering hole The Tin Hat, local bungalow dwellers, Ballard fishermen and artisans who frequent a happy hour (Mon.–Sun., 3–6 p.m.) that offers $1 Pabst Blue Ribbons, $3 well drinks,…
Blueberry Fields Forever
Top picks of this year's U-picks
Category: Arts + Events Articles Arm yourself with a bucket and nimble fingers, and taste the sweet fruits of labor at one of the area’s U-pick blueberry farms. Along with acres open for berry-pickin’, farms also offer traditional array of blueberry goods, like Canter-Berry’s savory chutney with ginger and brown sugar, or berry-themed evenings, like…
Scoop: Get Your Own Blueberries! U-Pick Blueberry Farms
Category: Eat + Drink Articles Beat the blues by picking some of your own at one of the many blueberry farms within a peach stone’s throw of Seattle. July is peak season, and many of the berries are organic, so you’ll be able to eat copious amounts of them right out of your baskets…
Grilled Fish Tacos at Flyin Fish Make the Perfect Summer Meal
Every year, like clockwork, the warm July weather awakens my south-of-the-border taste buds, and I don’t have a choice: I must have fish tacos. And, though I’ve strayed through the years, sneaking off to newer, younger restaurants to taste their seafood offerings, I keep returning to Christine Keff’s venerable Flying Fish for the simple pleasure of…
The Goods: In the Bag
Category: Shopping + Fashion Articles Local designers Rian and Julie Berry blend James Bond sophistication and Indiana Jones rustic utility in this over-the-shoulder men’s messenger bag. Marked with the sleek jet propeller insignia, the bag features smooth, vegetable-tanned leather and plenty of pockets to stash high-tech gadgets. Photo by Tom Barwick
Tasting Notes: Wines + Rinds
Cheeses washed in wine make for unexpected pairing delights.
Category: Tasting Notes Cheese and wine is a match made in heaven. The only thing better might be enjoying some of our best local cheeses that are actually made with wine—washed in wine, to be exact. Kelli Estrella of Estrella Family Creamery (Montesano, 659 Wynoochee Valley Road; 360.249.6541; estrellafamilycreamery.com) makes several washed-rind cheeses by…
Restaurant Review: Ocho
Ocho delivers tapas minus the fuss.
There are those who’ll swear up and down that the only thing they care about when it comes to their favorite restaurants is the food. I am not one of those people. To me, it’s about much more than that. The lighting matters, the warmth of the service matters, the music, where my table is,…
Cheap Eats: Gringo Grub
White guys make great tacos on Capitol Hill.
Category: Eat + Drink Articles Frustrated with the area’s dearth of delicious late-night eats—the kind you wolf down on your tipsy way home from the bar—Campagne alums Taber Turpin and Michael Pitts decided to fill the void by opening Taco Gringos (Capitol Hill, 1510 E Olive Way; no phone; tacogringos.com), a takeout-only taco shop…
Food We Love: Savory by the Slice
Baker Jenny Christensen creates a triple threat with her strawberry, almond and cheese custard pie.
Category: Eat + Drink Articles Baker Jenny Christensen paid her dues in the kitchens of Le Pichet, Campagne and Brasa before launching Pies by Jenny last winter. Now a year-round regular at the University District Farmers’ Market (University Way and 50th St.; Sat., 9 a.m.–2 p.m.), Christensen has created a triple threat with her…