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April 3, 2012
Assessing the "Where Should I Eat?" Apps
Urbanspoon last week released a redone version of its popular app, supplementing its shake-to-suggest slot machine with interactive maps and lists of restaurants favored by Eater or helmed by James Beard-nominated chefs. Another new feature notifies registered users when they're in the vicinity of a ... More >>
Blogs
March 13, 2012
Restaurant Zoë Chef Zachary Pacleb Paints a Picture of Life in the Kitchen
Zachary Pacleb might seem like an artist you'd bump into at a cafe on Capitol Hill and while he is that, he also cooks at Restaurant Zoë and has learned from other great chefs in Seattle. Pacleb, a California Culinary Academy grad, returned to Seattle and jumpstarted his culinary career at Crus ... More >>
Blogs
September 26, 2011
Building a Better Manhattan
About 30 judges gathered last Friday afternoon in the Chairman's Room at The Metropolitan Grill for the 2nd Annual Manhattan contest. Five Met Grill staff members created variations of the classic cocktail using exclusive bourbons from Woodford Reserve, Elijah Craig, and Eagle Rare. The winni ... More >>
Blogs
September 22, 2011
Meddling With the Manhattan
The tinkering impulse that led some bartenders to issue so-called martinis made without gin or vermouth has lately found expression in the Manhattan, one of six basic drinks listed in David Embry's 1948 classic The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks. "The beautiful thing about the Manhattan is it's ... More >>
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August 19, 2011
Chefs Believe Cigar Lovers Shouldn't Wait Until After Dinner to Smoke
Legislators nationwide have agreed food and cigarettes don't belong together, but cigar smokers say their favorite tobacco product can bring a new dimension to dining. "Obviously, a cigar is different than a cigarette," says Crush's Jason Wilson, who helped organize the culinary component of ... More >>
Blogs
August 18, 2011
Short Ribs, Long Pleasure at Crush
Last year at this time, I interviewed Chef Jason Wilson for an Edible Seattle article about sex and food, exploring the idea that diners' eating preferences can predict what kind of sex lives they have. In discussing variety, he mentioned that some people come to Crush for 6-course or 12-cour ... More >>
Blogs
June 16, 2011
Taylor Made: Raw Geoduck With Serrano Ham, Apple, Lamb's Lettuce, and Truffle
Photo by Julien PerryIf 27-year old Taylor Thornhill, the new chef de cuisine at Mistral Kitchen, could pick just three things to keep on the menu, one of them would be raw or cured fish (find out what his other two picks are in part two of Grillaxin). While geoduck isn't technically a fish, ... More >>
Food
April 27, 2011
Ethan Stowell, Empire Builder
The "new Tom Douglas" couldn't be more different than the vintage.
Food
April 6, 2011
Eat Lou Kohl
Meet King County's most dogmatic, bloodthirsty restaurateur.
Blogs
April 1, 2011
He's on the Hunt for Squab--and 6 More Things You Need to Know About Michael Mina
Photo by Leslie KellyJason Wilson, right, is buds with celebrity chef Michael Mina.Have you heard? Celebrity chef Michael Mina is opening a new place in downtown Seattle! He was here recently, talking wine and food pairings and doing a demo at Taste Washington, as well as hiring staff for RN ... More >>
Blogs
December 29, 2010
Resolve to Make Better Cocktails
This is usually the time of year when people start making goals living healthier in the New Year. For some of us, those goals for living healthier mean living BETTER. It kind of makes sense, right? Instead of resolving to drink fewer cocktails, why not resolve to MAKE better cocktails? And, b ... More >>
Food
December 29, 2010
Seattle's Best Meals of 2010
From Potatoes Minneapolis to Moo Dade Deaw.
Blogs
December 15, 2010
Seattle Makes The Cut: GQ's Alan Richman Picks the 10 Best New Restaurants in America
Seattle has been having a pretty good year when it comes to the big-n-glossy national press. GQ named Zig Zag the best cocktail bar in America (and Needle & Thread 25th). Food & Wine tagged Jason Stratton of Spinasse as one of the best new chefs of 2010. And then there was Jason Wilson from C ... More >>
Food
October 27, 2010
Voracious News & Notes
Maria Hines, openings galore, and Eminem's beloved Lunchables.
Blogs
October 21, 2010
Come On Chef Jason, Show Us Your Big Squash
Crush chef/owner Jason Wilson has gotten down and dirty this summer, planting a garden near his restaurant, a plot of fertile land worked for more than 30 years by the late father of a loyal customer. This experiment gave the whole farm-to-table trend a new dimension, as produce was harvested ... More >>
Blogs
October 20, 2010
Crush Chef Jason Wilson Moves Farm-To-Table To His Hood
Photo by Leslie KellyJason Wilson digs fresh radishes.It was a huge year for Crush chef/owner Jason Wilson. He received the best chef in the Northwest honors from the James Beard Foundation. Which is like acing your chemistry final, making out with the cutest boy/girl on the block and winning ... More >>
Blogs
October 19, 2010
Getting Down And Dirty With Jason Wilson
Photo by Leslie KellyJason Wilson in the garden with his son, Ferrin.Successful chefs are insanely busy, that's a given. But this summer, Jason Wilson of Crush added to his already crowded platter of projects when a customer approached him, asking whether he wanted to plant a vegetable garden ... More >>
Blogs
July 16, 2010
Friday Food Porn: Vegetarians Beware
Photo courtesy Renee McMahonBurning the Beasts at Burning Beast Usually, these Friday afternoons excursions into the prurient belly of Seattle's food scene are linked somehow to the week's review. But this week? Not so much. This week, I reviewed Pho Bac. And while I certainly loved the plac ... More >>
Blogs
July 15, 2010
The Burning Beast Trilogy Takes a Turn Toward Purgatory (Part Two)
This roast lamb is clearly evil; that's why it ended up with such a gruesome fate in Hell.In part one of this epic three-part saga about Burning Beast, I described my Dante-esque descent into this culinary Hell (i.e., a grassy field in Arlington, Wash.), where gluttony is the only sin. The f ... More >>
Blogs
July 14, 2010
Jason Wilson Sells His Soul to the Burning Beast (Part One)
You, too, can sell your soul to this demon in return for brilliant cooking skill!Burning Beast is a gathering of Seattle's finest chefs for an outdoor cookout of epic proportions. This takes place at the Smoke Farm, an arts facility in Arlington, which the proceeds of Burning Beast benefit. ... More >>
Blogs
June 25, 2010
Friday Food Porn: A Gastronaut's Crush
Photo courtesy Peter Mumford This week's review of Crush was all about the quiet competence of a kitchen deprived of its award-winning executive chef. It's about silence and the rush, about the kind of training it takes to make a galley function just as well when the chef is in the house as ... More >>
Blogs
June 24, 2010
Ask the Critic: What It Means to Be "Essential"
In response to the most recent Seattle's Essential Dishes post (lauding the short rib at Crush), I got a note from Dawn offering some criticism of the direction she sees the project heading. Because it was (for a change) a rational and well-reasoned argument--and brought up some of the cent ... More >>
Food
June 23, 2010
Crush Groove
No head chef? No problem!
Blogs
June 23, 2010
Seattle's Essential Dishes: Short Rib (in various forms) at Crush
Photo courtesy Peter Mumford The short rib from Crush: The menu at Crush changes a lot. With the seasons, with the tides, with the phases of the moon and the product at the markets and the whims of the cooks and chef Jason Wilson. But one thing that's always there? The short rib.
Blogs
June 22, 2010
Crush: A Moment of (Nearly) Perfect Quiet
"Forget, for a moment, where you are sitting. Forget the room--the perfect white-on-white blankness of the canvas, accents of richly polished black wood, carefully arranged flowers and tables laid with clean, spartan cool. Forget the crowds that surround you, the money being brought to bear b ... More >>
Blogs
May 7, 2010
Greatest Hits and What You Missed: Pirates, Shirtless Chefs and Pranks Gone Wrong
Too hot for print, perfect for Blog-o-LandWe understand. You're still recovering from celebrating the James Beard Awards, your Kentucky Derby party, and eating too many peanut butter bacon burgers (at our suggestion). So maybe you didn't catch everything we were slingin' this week on Voraciou ... More >>
Blogs
May 4, 2010
James Beard Awards: Jason Wilson Brings Home the Gold
I've been tracking the James Beard Awards now for a couple months, handicapping the odds on the semifinalists (here, here and here), talking about the finalists and their chances (here), and reporting on my own crushing defeat at the hands of Jonathan Gold on Sunday night during the JBF Media ... More >>
Blogs
April 12, 2010
The List: Seattle Farmers Market Makes Travel Leisure List of Country's Best
Seattle has been getting some serious national props lately on the food and restaurant scene. There was the announcement of the finalists for the James Beard Awards a couple weeks ago (in which Tom Douglas made the cut for Outstanding Restaurateur, Ethan Stowell and Jason Wilson are up for Be ... More >>
Blogs
April 6, 2010
Jason Stratton of Spinasse One of Food & Wine Magazine's Best New Chefs 2010
Seattle, meet one of the ten Best New Chefs in AmericaYesterday, I wrote about the news that not one, but two of Seattle's most famous (if not most beloved) restaurants had made it onto the Restaurants & Institutions list of top 100 independent restaurants--a run-down judged solely on the amo ... More >>
Blogs
March 22, 2010
Update: Handicapping the James Beard Awards
Into the home stretch...This morning, the finalists for the James Beard Awards were announced from the floor of the Palace Cafe in New Orleans--a suitably food-obsessed city, from which many of the awards' big winners have come. And like I promised, here I am to see how my wicked handicapping ... More >>
Blogs
February 18, 2010
Tom Douglas, Jerry Traunfeld and Canlis Lead a Robust Crop of Seattle-Based Beard Award Semifinalists
Kenneth DundasSpring Hill's Fuller is among a group of Seattle food folk who hope to be Bearded.The list of James Beard Award semifinalists is out, and it's chockablock with Seattle-based restaurants, vintners, and chefs, including Spring Hill's Mark Fuller, the subject of this week's three-p ... More >>
Blogs
May 7, 2009
DRY Soda's New Flavors: Put Them In Your Cocktails
This week DRY Soda introduced new flavors vanilla bean, cucumber and juniper berry, now available at a Starbucks near you (if "near you" means Seattle metro). If these new flavors are part of a ploy to further ingratiate the company into the good graces of restaurant owners and bartenders, it's work ... More >>
Blogs
March 23, 2009
James Beard Awards Nominees
The James Beard Foundation is in the middle of announcing the finalists for this year's James Beard Awards, on Twitter right now. Seattle's Rebekah Denn has been nominated in the Best Newspaper Feature with Recipes category. Ms. Denn's comments on the nomination: "This is about the nicest thing that ... More >>
Blogs
March 10, 2009
Cochon555 Roundup: Fat Ruled
Should have posted this yesterday, but I got caught up making syrups for the Seattle Weekly Food Awards (more on that later). Sunday night's Cochon555 event happened in a beautiful little pocket of dramatic sunshine, right on the water at the Bell Harbor Convention Center. Five chefs, five special p ... More >>
Blogs
February 13, 2009
Seattle Semifinalists for the 2009 Beard Awards
The list was just released. There are two more rounds of judging before the awards are presented May 4, but here's who made it from Seattle:
Blogs
February 4, 2009
Burgundy and Willamette Valley Wine Dinner at Crush
Crush, the popular eatery nestled in the Madison Valley, serves American-style cuisine out of a renovated 1903 house that maintains a modern appeal through its cozy atmosphere and understated white decor. This week, owners Nicole and Jason Wilson welcome Scott Paul Wright, importer and winemaker of ... More >>
Blogs
June 9, 2008
Some National Awards for Some Local People
Crush, the popular eatery nestled in the Madison Valley, serves American-style cuisine out of a renovated 1903 house that maintains a modern appeal through its cozy atmosphere and understated white decor. This week, owners Nicole and Jason Wilson welcome Scott Paul Wright, importer and winemaker of ... More >>
Food
April 16, 2008
Seattle Food News: Phinney's New Wine Boutique, Denny's New Diner, and Pike Street's Fish Fry
Selections from Voracious, our daily food blog.
Food
March 26, 2008
Changes at Mistral, Beard Awards, and the Death of Stan's
Selections from Voracious, our daily food blog.
Blogs
March 24, 2008
Maneki, Local Chefs Make the Beard Award Finals
Selections from Voracious, our daily food blog.
Blogs
January 9, 2008
This Week in Food News: Bird Flu, Cocktail Glasses, and Michael Pollan
Selections from Voracious, our daily food blog.
Blogs
May 13, 2007
The Local Vine
Selections from Voracious, our daily food blog.
Blogs
January 18, 2007
Crush Opens Its Kitchens
Selections from Voracious, our daily food blog.
Food
October 11, 2006
Tequila for dinner!
It's not just for margaritas anymore.
Food
May 3, 2006
Invitational Classic
Earth & Ocean's Maria Hines is the latest local to guest at New York City's Beard House. We were there.
Food
April 19, 2006
North America
Earth & Ocean's Maria Hines is the latest local to guest at New York City's Beard House. We were there.
Arts
October 16, 2002
Very Briefly Noted
Short reviews of books of shorts.
Food
July 17, 2002
At Last, Vivanda
The new restaurant in the Market turns out to be a happy thing.
Food
June 12, 2002
The Hot Sheet
What's in, what's fresh, what's cooking.
Arts
December 6, 2000
Bested by the Bests
Best American collections are a treasure for readers, but the Net is diminishing their worth.
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