Food & Drink
Give the Gift of Booze: Six Bottles That Will Impress Your Friends
Get your friends what they really want – a bottle bursting with an intriguing spirit or liqueur.
Is there a cocktail fanatic on your gift list this year, and one whose bar is already full of equipment? Then get them what they really want—a bottle bursting with an intriguing spirit or liqueur. The following six are chosen for their particular gift-ability. Heck, you can even pick one up as your gift for…
Holiday Gifts for Foodies
Bitters, booze and bacon jam: Thank the holiday host with these easy-to-snag, locally crafted goods.
Cyprus Pyramid SaltCapitol Hill’s modern-day apothecary, Karyn Schwartz’s SugarPill is filled top to bottom with scent-sational herbs, cocktail bitters, and smoked, herbal, infused and classic salts. Thank your holiday hostess with a beautiful jar of salt; the scented crystals add an intoxicating flavor to grilled meats or crostini. $13 per 3-ounce jar, available at SugarPill…
“Sweet and Sexy” Shanik Opens Tonight!
If you’ve been mentally camping out in preparation for Shanik’s opening (which was supposed to happen today!), well, hunker down for a few more days. We’ve been tracking this, the most exciting opening of the year for nearly a year. Now, we have to wait just a few more days for the place to launch….
How to Write a Cookbook: Shelley Lance on Her Collaboration with Tom Douglas
Sweet! The Dahlia Bakery Cookbook is a huge hit! In addition to being on bestseller lists, the goodie-filled tome showed up over the weekend on The New York Times Book Review‘s list of great holiday gifts and it’s featured in this month’s Martha Stewart Living. While most everyone is familiar with Seattle’s most famous chef/restaurateur,…
Best Shops in Seattle 2012
Our editors picked their favorite local boutiques for men and women's clothing, gifts and more.
Best New Shopping TrendBoutique TrucksWe’ve grown accustomed to meals on wheels, but this year the town was treated to fashion trucks on the go. Glued to our Twitter feed for location updates, we eagerly tracked this new breed of mobile boutique. Amanda Linton and Allison Norris’ vintage trailer, The Kippy Ding Ding, opened in July,…
Holiday Gift Guide: Gifts for Dog Lovers
These gifts are perfect for that hard-to-buy for dog-person on your list.
Bowser BeerFor those who let their pooches guzzle the real stuff (you know who you are!), offer them healthier booze: Des Moines–based Bowser Beer dog beer is made from USDA chicken or steak, plus malt barley (B vitamins!) and glucosamine (for joint health!). $19.99/six-pack, available at Wally Pets (Wallingford, 4411 Wallingford Ave. N; 206.547.0301). A…
Best of 2012: Dining + Drinking
Best Northwest CuisinePoppyIt’s hard to believe that it’s been four years since Jerry Traunfeld opened his post-Herbfarm project, leveraging his reputation as Seattle’s crown prince of herbs and spices into a completely bold concept unlike any we’d ever seen here. Beyond the novelty of an Indian-style thali plate given the Northwest treatment, it has been…
Not to Miss Weekend Shopping Events
In addition to the craft-acular Urban Craft Uprising at the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall, there is so much incredible stuff happening the Seattle shopping scene this weekend. See if you can cram all of it in. The gauntlet has been thrown. Lizzie Parker at NordstromLast September, this Issaquah-based designer and former contestant on NBC’s Fashion…
Holiday Gift Guide: Paper
Unique stationery, calendars and gift wrap from local artists.
Pike Street PressNestled at the bottom of the Pike Place Hill Climb, Sean Brown’s Pike Street Press cranks out some of the coolest letterpress holiday cards in town from his gorgeous 1964 Heidelberg Windmill press. Our fave: his Space Needle New Year’s card (shown above), complete with fireworks. Available at Pike Street Press. Paper…
Holiday Cooking & Cocktail Classes You Really Shouldn’t Miss
There may be no better pre-holiday gift than a spot at Bruce Naftaly’s (sure-to-sell-out-in-a-hot-minute!) cooking classes at Le Gourmand. In fact, several years ago I sent my parents to one of Naftaly’s classes, and though I have yet to see demi-glace grace the old Austin table during a holiday dinner, George and Nancy sure enjoyed…
Gifts for Men
A guy-friendly wish list.
Cairo Screen-print Vintage TieWith funky design motifs that include cassette decks, Polaroid cameras and bicycles, these screen-printed vintage ties—made on Capitol Hill—also defy boring office attire. $18, available at NuBe Green Sucree ‘Sugar Daddy’ Money ClipLocal metalsmith Jill Jandreau’s cheeky little bill clip is hand-forged from copper and finished with patina for an industrial…
Holiday Gift Guide: Books
Go old school and give the gift of the printed word.
One-size-fits-all gifts that look good on any shelf. Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)In his book Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis, National Book Award-winning author and Seward Park-resident, Timothy Egan delves into the…
Target + Neiman Marcus Collab Hits Stores Saturday
Hopefully you’ve had time to recover from Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday because the Target + Neiman Marcus holiday collaboration extravaganza is hitting the shelves on Saturday, December 1. This grand retail experiment features designs from 24 of fashion’s most celebrated talents, including Derek Lam, Band of Outsiders, Carolina Herrera, Oscar de…