Retail
Life & Style: Thought for Food
MOHAIs six-course 'Edible City' will examine how, what and why Seattle eats.
SHOW OF HANDS. Who remembers Yeslers Cookhouse? Long before Tom Douglas and Ethan Stowell and Josh Henderson made the chefs trade a cult of celebrity, long before fishmongers were tossing salmon at Pike Place Market and long before farm to table was a food-industry cliche, Yeslers Cookhouse was offering sustenance to the people of Seattle….
High (Tech) Fashion
How three local firms are bringing technology to the trade.
We all wear clothes. Most of the time, anyway. Some of us are more into making fashion statements than others. And some spend way more than anyone should to gild their forms. But even if we dont buy into the gospel of Billy Crystals SNL character Fernando that its better to look good than to…
Dining: Home Cooking in Ballard
San Fermo strives for comfort Italian style.
Named for a 16th-century monastery 50 miles west of Venice, San Fermo in Ballard is probably the first new restaurant in a long time that wants to make its name in rustic, homey Italian food. Instead of focusing on the current trend of modern, interpretive Italian dishes, co-owners Tim Baker (Percys & Co.), Scott Shapiro…
Making the Consumer Connection
How three new companies are reinventing the shoe, the bicycle and the childrens play fort.
Billy Price struggled nearly 20 years to find a better, easier way to put on his shoes. August Graube was convinced kids would love bigger, snappier building blocks. Kartik Ram wanted the bicycling public to help produce a sleeker, sexier electric bike. By putting new twists on old products using zippers to secure footwear, snap-together…
Executive Life & Style: A Still Life
Cadee conjures spirits from the Isle of Whidbey.
The Washington distillery industry can provide many stories about how and why people decided to start up their stills. Colin Campbell, owner of Cadee Distillery, has a story that goes back further than most. He belongs to a clan in Scotland that has been crafting spirits since 1494. Its in his blood, though it might…
Dining: Collective Consciousness
Its Josh Hendersons world; here's your guide to eating in it.
Ten years ago, Josh Henderson left a sweet gig cooking for photographers on location in Los Angeles to start a food truck in Seattle called Skillet. It did quite well, expanding with help from equity partners into four brick-and-mortar diners and a catering company. Henderson left the Skillet Group in 2013 to again do his…
Paine Field Ready for Takeoff
Opposition continues, but Paine Field inches closer to commercial operations.
When Paine Field was built in 1936, nearly a decade before Seattle-Tacoma International Airport was completed, the 604-acre, fog-free unpopulated site 23 miles north of Seattle was envisioned as being one of 10 commercial super airports around the country. Originally called Snohomish County Airport its name was changed to Paine Field in 1941 the airport…
Bright Idea: Space Exploration with Flexe Inc.
Need a warehouse in Omaha for eight weeks? Flexes online marketplace will find it for you.
Amazon has poured tens of billions of dollars into building close to 100 highly automated ware-houses around the country to cut costs and reduce delivery times. That reality has put competitors in a quandary. How can they match Amazons capabilities without spending the same kind of money to build a similar network? Seattle-based Flexe (flexe.com)…
From Farm to Tavern: a Grain of Truth
With so many local craft breweries and local distilleries, it only makes sense that the malt be local, too.
At Skagit Valley Malting, Wayne Carpenter presides over a rapidly increasing assortment of squat metal silos that store the grain he buys from local farmers. Carpenter started Skagit Valley Malting to take advantage of the grain supply and to specialize in low-protein malt for craft brewers, producing custom malt on demand. His customers have varying…
Executive Life & Style: Dining at Bramling Cross
Ethan Stowells latest Ballard Avenue spot pairs suds and sustenance.
If youre a beer lover, Bramling Cross, which is named after a hop varietal, will be your favorite Ethan Stowell restaurant to date because the focus is on wood-fired, shareable dishes that pair with eight micro-local brews (made in Ballard or Fremont) and 50 international beers. One of those dishes is a ridiculously moist pork…
OfferUp’s Mobile Marketplace
Building a better Craigslist: OfferUp quietly makes its move.
We all know the mother of invention. Nick Huzars necessity was finding a way to clear out a room for his soon-to-arrive baby girl. My wife and I were at a spot where we wanted to have kids and when she said she was expecting, I kind of went into dad mode, Huzar explains. I…
Dining: Spanish Lessons
Bryan Jarrs visit to the Iberian Peninsula spawns an intimate new tapas bar in Seattle.
After shuttering the much-loved Madison Park Conservatory in 2014, co-owner Bryan Jarr took off on a food-research expedition through Spain and Portugal. Jarr, who is co-author of In the Kitchen with the Pike Place Fish Guys, went to study traditional seafood preservation at several Spanish and Portuguese canneries. Along the way, he fell in love…