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Kevin Davis

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2011

    Margin Call Humanizes the Embattled Broker, Who Would Likely Dine at Blueacre

    "Yo, bro, I'm meeting clients at Blueacre for lunch."​The Dinner: A BLC (bacon, lettuce & crabmeat sandwich) and fries washed down by a Manhattan at Blueacre Seafood, 1700 7th Ave, 659-0737, DOWNTOWN. The Movie: Margin Call at Pacific Place. The Screenplate: The most poignant scene in J.C. C ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2011

    Eat Like a Man--Horrible Title, Great Cookbook

    ​Yes, it's 2011. And yes, we are still falling into the tired stereotypes about cooking: Women make the salads and bake, and men cook the meat--preferably on the grill. In Esquire's Eat Like a Man, there is not a salad recipe to be found (potato salad doesn't count), just one dessert recipe, a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2011

    So Long, Jason! A List of Sheehan's Greatest Hits

    Let's give Jason Sheehan a proper kiss-off, er, send-off! ​Oh, Mr. Sheehan. We hardly knew ye. Seems like you just got here and now your Mexi-Fries-loving, High 5-Pie-hating bad self is heading down the highway. But before we let you slip out of town, let's take a trip down memory lane, a qu ... More >>

  • Food

    March 23, 2011

    Our 107 Favorite Restaurants, 2011

    From burgers and pizza to steak and sashimi, the Great Seattle Food Pyramid takes shape.

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2010

    Greatest Hits and What You Missed: Tron, Porn, Tacos and Fruitcake

    ​ "Brave is the food truck operator who stays open during some of the crappiest weather Seattle has seen this year. The past several days have been nothing but heavy rain and flooding, and yet, just feet from the watery roadways remain the glowing 'open' lights of mobile food trucks, turning ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2010

    Friday Food Porn: The Best of 2010, Part 2

    Photo courtesy Joshua Huston​ On Friday of last week, we had part 1 of the Friday Food Porn Best of 2010 collection of truly awesome food photography--10 snaps which covered the best of the first six months (or so) of this soon-to-be-concluded year. And today, we're continuing on with a Wedn ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2010

    Steelhead Diner's Chef Anthony Is A Recovering Business Major

    Photo by Leslie KellyAnthony Polizzi makes diners happy at Steelhead.​Anthony Polizzi, Steelhead Diner's chef de cuisine, has loved hanging out in the kitchen since he was a kid. But he didn't think it was going to be a career. The native New Yorker studied business and got a job in Los Angele ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2010

    Friday Food Porn: Angry Crab and Pretty Little Fishies

    Photo courtesy Joshua Huston​ Some of you out there seem to think it a little bit strange that, in a review of one of the best seafood restaurants in this fish-obsessed city, I spent a good chunk of space talking about...potatoes. But see, here's the thing. Those potatoes (the Potatoes Minne ... More >>

  • Food

    September 1, 2010

    Blueacres of Calm

    Oceanaire's spacious heir delivers wisdom, fish, and hash browns.

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2010

    Feeling Minneapolis at Blueacre Seafood

    ​"My menu is just out of the printer--just run out of the big copier in a walled-off section near the hostess station--and it, like the space, is big, the options overwhelming. There are fish, oysters, lobsters and crab, soups and salads and sandwiches and steaks and chicken and an entire sect ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 6, 2010

    Blue Angels Crashes: A Few, but Then Again, Not Too Few (26 Fatalities) to Mention

    ​Weekend closures of the I-90 floating bridges during Blue Angels aerobatic flights are required, as state Department of Transportation and Seafair officials make clear, to prevent accidents on the bridges and in the air: They are "complying with Federal Aviation Administration rules to create ... 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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2010

    Seattle's Essential Dishes: Poutine from the Steelhead Diner

    photo courtesy cornichon.org​ Poutine from the Steelhead Diner: French fries? Good. Gravy? Good. Cheese curds? Double-good. Poutine? Awesome in more ways than can be described by mortal man.

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2010

    Oceanaire Seafood Room Assimilated By Borg Collective

    All your restaurant are belong to us ...​Looks like Oceanaire Seafood Room no longer has to worry its pretty little head over the massive debt and Chapter 11 bankruptcy that has dogged it for the last year or so because it was recently announced that Landry's Restaurants Inc.--the Borg Collect ... More >>

  • Food

    April 7, 2010

    Our Favorite Restaurants 2010

    All your restaurant are belong to us ...​Looks like Oceanaire Seafood Room no longer has to worry its pretty little head over the massive debt and Chapter 11 bankruptcy that has dogged it for the last year or so because it was recently announced that Landry's Restaurants Inc.--the Borg Collect ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2010

    Freeloading (Already) at Blueacre

    Kasu marinated King salmon collars​Blueacre, the new offering from Kevin and Terresa Davis, and the muse behind Jason Sheehan's fictional restaurant wish list, officially opens at 4 p.m. today. I got a chance to try out the menu last night as part of a "friends and family" dinner. Yes, it was ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2010

    Food Porn: On the Floor at Steelhead Diner

    ​"So how long is it now? Seven days?" "Yeah. No. Uh...from today? Eight days. 17th--that'll be friends and family. Soft open on the 19th. For the public." "So eight days." "Eight days." "But really ten days." "Not for us." This was me and Kevin Davis talking. This was Tuesday night, Marc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2010

    The List: Fictional Restaurants That I Want To Be Eating At Right Now

    "He say you Blade Runner..."​One of the weird quirks of this job is that, while I am supposed to be absolutely au courant on every big (and most of the little) restaurant openings in this town, I can't actually attend any openings. For reasons of anonymity, ethics and, quite frankly, common de ... More >>

  • Food

    March 17, 2010

    Steel Headed: With all the attention on Kevin Davis' new Blueacre Seafood, how's his first son holding up?

    "He say you Blade Runner..."​One of the weird quirks of this job is that, while I am supposed to be absolutely au courant on every big (and most of the little) restaurant openings in this town, I can't actually attend any openings. For reasons of anonymity, ethics and, quite frankly, common de ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2010

    Comment of the Day: Defending Red Robin, Chain Restaurants, Tom Douglas and the Charm of Funky Bathrooms

    ​Earlier this week, we had a post by Mike Seely lamenting what had become of the iconic, original location of the Red Robin burger franchise--that single address (a former tavern in the U District that, decades later, became the more recognizable burger bar) which spawned a nationwide chain of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2010

    Looking Back, Looking Forward: Last Days At Steelhead Diner

    ​Late into my third night eating at Steelhead, there's a moment when Davis--buried in tickets, juggling plates, grouping finished orders for pickup and surrounded by the smooth-running army of white-jacketed cooks that crowd and surround him like frantic doves beating themselves against the co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2010

    Talking Blueacre, Babies and Brian O'Conner With Chef Kevin Davis

    Kevin, Terresa and their pet fish​"So how long is it now? Seven days?" "Yeah. No. Uh...from today? Eight days. 17th--that'll be friends and family. Soft open on the 19th. For the public." "So eight days." "Eight days." "But really ten days." "Not for us." This was me and Kevin Davis talk ... 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

    February 11, 2010

    Recipe: Angry Crab by Kevin Davis

    credit:farm2.static.flickr.com/1422/1088158261_ecafe0decb.jpg​The final installment of our time with Kevin Davis of Steelhead Diner and soon-to-open Blueacre Seafood. You can read our interview here and here. Angry Crab is a Steelhead Diner specialty: Dungeness crab with rouille (a spiced sau ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2010

    Grillaxin' with Steve Davis, Part Two

    credit:steelheaddiner.comTeresa and Kevin Davis​This is part two of our interview with Steve Davis, chef/owner of Steelhead Diner and of soon-to-open Blueacre Seafood. You can read part one here. Check back tomorrow to get the lowdown on Davis' recipe for Angry Crab. Tell me about your plans ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2010

    Grillaxin' with Kevin Davis, Part One

    credit: Thomas Berwick​Kevin Davis is the chef/owner, with his wife, Teresa, of Steelhead Diner, a successful upscale diner food restaurant sited in Pike Place Market. Davis has cooked all over the world: in Paris, Australia, New Orleans, and Napa Valley. In March, he will open the couple's se ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2009

    Blueacre to open in Oceanaire digs; Queen Anne Blushes

    ​ Steelhead Diner co-owner Kevin Davis is returning to his roots -- sort of. The Seattle Times reports that the former chef at Oceanaire will be using his former employer's space to open Blueacre Seafood. Davis and his partner Terresa Davis left Oceanaire in 2006. The high-end seafood restaur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2009

    Controversy: Alaskan Salmon, Seattle Restaurants, a Pit Mine, and a Blogger

    ​What started as a press release landing innocently in the Inbox a few days ago has erupted into a little storm, complete with an AP story featuring Seattle restaurants and local food blogger Ronald Holden being picked up by The New York Times. So, what the hell happened?

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2009

    This Week's Recipe: Dalis Chea's Cornish Hens with Quince Reduction

    ​Dalis Chea began his culinary education working at his parents' bakery as a child. Chea's formal training includes graduating from the Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Arts Program in Portland and working under executive chef Greg Atkinson at Canlis and chef Kevin Davis at Oceanaire. As executive chef ... 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

    June 18, 2008

    I Ate This: Sequimbled Eggs

    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

    June 3, 2008

    Summer Sunday Chef Demo at Pike Place Market

    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:

  • Food

    April 23, 2008

    Circus

    Elephantine decor, culinary feats of daring

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    January 14, 2008

    2007 Blue Angels Crash: Pilot's Abs Not Tensed

    Elephantine decor, culinary feats of daring

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    December 10, 2003

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    October 15, 2003

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    May 21, 2003

    Love Story

    Prepare to fall for the Kobe beef burger.

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    June 12, 2002

    The Hot Sheet

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    May 23, 2001

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