February 2011
9 posts
Eggplants are sexed?!
I was watching Jacques Pépin’s Fast Food My Way on KQED earlier today, and he mentioned something about picking male eggplants because they tend to have less seeds. What!? I had no idea that eggplants came in sexes. Because I was only half-watching (it’s actually not easy to clean and watch TV at the same time—unless you’re not doing a great job of cleaning, I guess), I...
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Bookstore Bar, Alexis Hotel, Seattle
Great place to browse some booze
What makes some places more inviting than others? It’s hard to know what the magic recipe is, but the Bookstore Bar seems to have it. Cozy and inviting, we bypassed our own hotel offering to check it out.
The menu looked fantastic to two famished travelers. Here’s what we settled on:
Pear salad: really an arugula salad but full of pears, goat...
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No longer Matt's but still in the Market and still...
Warm frisée and poached egg salad, worth the risk
We noticed Matt’s in the Market after dining at Chez Shea last year. The menu looked good, so I filed it away as a place to check out the next time around.
The restaurant overlooks Pike Place Market, and has a nice casual feel to it. It was clearly a favorite place for dates, judging by the tables around us.
Even though we’d had a...
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Lecosho, Seattle
The porchetta, which could not be ignored
I stumbled across Lecosho while trying to figure out if another restaurant I’d chosen got good reviews online. The search took me to urbanspoon.com, where it listed Lecosho as one of the restaurants that “Seattle critics and bloggers are talking about.” Links led to a review in the Seattle Weekly which raved about it. And the facts...
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Theo Chocolate, Seattle, WA
In the confection room, pouring the liquid gold
After lusting after Theo chocolates for the past two years, we finally had a chance to tour their factory in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle. It’s a hot ticket—we tried to go last year and it was sold out. Even this time there were people on the waitlist. I’d made our reservations several days in advance.
When you check...
