April 30, 2010
By Angela Garbes at 4:09 pm
My oldest brother is a genius. He was reading by the age of two; he skipped fourth grade. He scored an 800 on his Math SAT and went to college at MIT. Adding icing to the stereotypical Asian cake, he was also a piano prodigy with perfect pitch. I spent much of my youth resenting [...] read more →
April 25, 2010
By Angela Garbes at 2:18 pm
Last night I went to a dinner held by the Puget Sound Alliance for Retired Americans (start time: 5 p.m.) at a Best Western Inn. I didn’t realize until I got there that it was also a 90th birthday party for the coolest man in Seattle, Will Parry. read more →
April 23, 2010
By Angela Garbes at 5:22 pm
Tomorrow, Saturday April 24, Madison Valley’s City People’s Garden Store is holding a spring open house. From 11 am to 3 pm you can stop in, get advice on growing your own vegetables from the folks at Full Circle Farm (who run one of the area’s only year-round CSA programs), take part in a free [...] read more →
April 21, 2010
By Angela Garbes at 3:00 pm
As I drove over the South Park Bridge at lunch time on a sunny weekday afternoon, I wondered if this would be the moment that the poor old thing would collapse. You can practically hear the 79-year-old bridge groaning under the weight of cars and failed hopes, feel it wincing with each gust of wind. [...] read more →
April 16, 2010
By Angela Garbes at 10:51 am
This Sunday, April 18, marks the inauguration of Seattle Restaurant Week (running ten days, actually, through April 29), during which more than 100 restaurants are offering three-course dinners for $25. (A fair number of them are also offering three-course lunches for $15.) If this gives you a bit of deja vu, here’s why: In Seattle, [...] read more →
April 12, 2010
By Angela Garbes at 2:31 pm
I’m really digging what’s happening at the Alley Mall on Broadway right now. It’s long been home to stalwart cheap, decent Japanese food at HaNa and satisfying brunches from El Greco (now called Table 219), and in the last few years it’s added Korean food from Kimchi Bistro, as well as Pilot Books, a lovely [...] read more →
April 9, 2010
By Angela Garbes at 12:43 pm
Last October, while naming Crush one of the “Ten Best Restaurants of 2009,” Seattle Metropolitan Magazine marveled at the audacity of opening a fine dining restaurant “at the gritty inner-city corner of 23rd and Madison.” Statements like this make my blood boil. There’s almost nothing I despise more than when writers use words like “gritty,” [...] read more →
April 6, 2010
By Angela Garbes at 3:58 pm
Although the official announcement won’t be made until a ceremony this evening in New York, this afternoon, New York Magazine’s Grub Street blog (via, of all things, Food & Wine‘s Best New Chef iPhone app) published the names of the ten chefs who made Food & Wine‘s 2010 Best New Chefs list. Among the honorees [...] read more →
April 5, 2010
By Angela Garbes at 12:00 pm
Last night I went to Rose Petals Restaurant on MLK to eat soul food (more later this week from FoodNerd). They were having an Easter party, and the place had just about the best vibe in town, thanks in part to at least 20 old men in custom suits and hats. There was a great [...] read more →
By Angela Garbes at 10:17 am
Some days, you just need to ditch the niceties of dinner: Throw away the silverware, toss on a bib, and work up a sweat slurping and sucking your food. In the Gulf Coast, land of crawfish boils, they understand this better than we do in the staid Pacific Northwest. Luckily, Crawfish King (725 S Lane, [...] read more →
March 31, 2010
By Angela Garbes at 3:05 pm
Earlier this month, I set out to find Seattle’s fastest growing immigrant group—and eat their food. A few days later, a friend raised an intriguing question: “What’s the opposite group?” she wondered. “You know, Seattle’s disappearing immigrant population?” We looked at each other for a few puzzled seconds, before simultaneously saying, “Scandinavians?” Seattle—and specifically Ballard’s—identity [...] read more →
March 28, 2010
By Angela Garbes at 4:40 pm
In a world of spam and endless streams of useless email, one of the highlights of my week is seeing the Ripe and Ready report land in my inbox every Saturday. Sent out by Chris Curtis, director of the Neighborhood Farmers Market Alliance, Ripe and Ready offers a sneak peek of what to expect at [...] read more →
