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Lunchbox Laboratory

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2011

    ABC's Pan Am Flies Me to Blue Moon

    Sarah Anne Lloyd, 2011.​ As TV premieres now begin pouring in from all sides, this week's TV Dinner ran into a bit of "choice exhaustion" in whether to feature a returning titan (Boardwalk Empire, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia), a halfway promising upstart (The New Girl, Terra Nova) or jus ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2011

    Lunchbox Laboratory Expands to Bellevue; High 5 Pie Owner to Appear on Martha Stewart's Show

    Lunchbox Laboratory is expanding to Bellevue!​A second installment of über-popular burger eatery Lunchbox Laboratory is opening at 989 112th Ave. N.E. in Bellevue, according to The Seattle Times. Eastsiders can expect to see it open in December. In other news, if you want to learn how to ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2011

    The Rock Wood Fired Pizza & Spirits to Open 30 New Restaurants, Lunchbox Laboratory Expands to Bellevue, & More

    Loosen your belts, Bellevue. Lunchbox Laboratory is coming your way!​First off, big news for Bellevue: A second installment of über-popular burger eatery Lunchbox Laboratory is opening at 989 112th Ave. N.E. Eastsiders can expect to see it open in December. Also in the neighborhood: In other ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2011

    Snackdown! White Center vs. South Lake Union

    ​Our second Neighborhood Snackdown semi-final match pits White Center (which upset West Seattle to claim its second-round spot) against South Lake Union (winner of a battle with Wedgwood). Which is the better neighborhood for eating?

  • Blogs

    August 15, 2011

    Best of Seattle: Readers' Favorite Burgers

    ​Seattle Weekly readers are a heavy-eating and -drinking bunch, but a number of them set down their forks and steins to record their choices for the city's best spots for corned beef, coffee, and curry--among other critical edibles. Over the coming weeks, we'll be sharing their selections on V ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2011

    SLU Restaurants Bring Their Best Burgers to Block Party Contest

    ​If forced to name a downside to South Lake Union's phenomenal growth, the Seastar Restaurant & Raw Bar team might point to increased competition in the South Lake Union Block Party burger grilling contest. Seastar this afternoon will defend the "best burger in the neighborhood" title it's wo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2011

    Spike's Deadliest Warrior Vs. Burger Madness: The Race to Destroy You

    This week, TV Dinner chose to take refuge from the frozen hell of summer television schedules in the spasmodically flaunted innards of Spike TV's Deadliest Warrior -- armed only with a daunting stack of meat, bread and crinkle-cut fries from SoDo's Burger Madness.

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2011

    Monday Fund-Raiser Featuring Murray Stenson; Sunny Teriyaki Closes in Ballard

    ​Friends and family of Kristal Lana, who was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer, are having a fund-raiser to help offset the cost of chemotherapy according to The Seattle Times. The event will start at 6 p.m. Monday, July 18, at BluWater Bistro in Leschi, and will feature a buffet dinner, l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2011

    Lunchbox Laboratory and Star Trek: TNG Improve With Age, Different Perspective

    Sarah Anne Lloyd, 2011.Make it so... I can't eat it without closing an artery.​ The Night-In: Custom-Built Burger with Tater Tots and Buff Pops at Lunchbox Laboratory to be eaten in front of Star Trek: The Next Generation on Netflix Instant Queue. The Cuisine: Lunchbox Laboratory built a loy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2011

    Memorial for Lunchbox Lab's Scott Simpson Set for Sunday

    Photo by Allegra Waggener"Scott always made me laugh," said Allegra Waggener, Simpson's partner in business and in life, and the Lunchbox Laboratory's sassy front-of-the-house fixture.​The beloved burger master (and so much more) is gone, but he's not going to be forgotten. A little more tha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2011

    Lunchbox Laboratory Owner Scott Simpson Passes Away at 38

    ​Nancy Leson just broke the heartbreaking news (since independently confirmed) that Lunchbox Laboratory owner Scott Simpson passed away last night at the age of 38. His restaurant had recently relocated from Ballard to South Lake Union and, as former SW food critic Jonathan Kauffman noted a co ... 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

    March 23, 2011

    Everything Great In The City: Our 2011 Restaurant Guide

    ​Right now--right this very second--you can click through this link and find yourself neck deep in everything that's great, edible and/or drinkable in the city of Seattle. No, seriously. Everything. Because this is the week for our 2011 Restaurant Guide and this year we went all out, choosing ... More >>

  • 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 16, 2010

    Lunchbox Laboratory to Take Over South Lake Union, Three New Eateries to Open on Capitol Hill, & More

    http://flickr.com/suomynonaLunchbox Laboratory is moving to South Lake Union​A win and a loss for Ballardites: Lunchbox Laboratory at 7302 15th Avenue Northwest closes on Sunday, December 19. But loyal customers needn't worry; it comes back bigger and better at 1253 Thomas Street in South Lake ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2010

    Lunchbox Laboratory To Close, Promises To Reopen Bigger And Better

    Goodbye, Ballard...​Okay, so we've all heard this before, right? Lunchbox Laboratory--the small and falling-to-pieces workshop where Scott Simpson and crew create some of the loveliest, most heart-attackiest burgers known to man (see some samples here), is closing. Or is about to close. Or clo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2010

    Friday Food Porn: The Best of 2010, Part 1

    photo courtesy www.flickr.com/photos/suomynona/​ With the end of the year fast approaching and this week's review of Chipotle already lighting up the internets with no help required, we've decided to take a step back this Friday and start collecting the best of the best Food Porn of the past ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2010

    Thursday Food Porn: Hot Beef Injection

    Photo courtesy Norma Rosenthal​ This is the "Kiss Your Hips Goodbye" burger from John Howie Steak--recently renamed after a little legal dust-up with the Arizona-based Heart Attack Grill and written about at length right here on Voracious. It is 12 ounces of prime chuck burger, tempura fried ... More >>

  • Food

    October 20, 2010

    Versus: Grinding Out a Win at Latona Pub

    Photo courtesy Norma Rosenthal​ This is the "Kiss Your Hips Goodbye" burger from John Howie Steak--recently renamed after a little legal dust-up with the Arizona-based Heart Attack Grill and written about at length right here on Voracious. It is 12 ounces of prime chuck burger, tempura fried ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 9, 2010

    Greatest Hits and What You Missed: Beating the Heat With (Gross) Ice Cream and (Delicious) BBQ

    This is probably NOT a double scoop of Red Dawn​Short week this week, what with the holiday on Monday. But we made the best possible use of the time we had--by talking mostly about ice cream and barbecue because, really, in this kind of heat those are about the only things that sound appetizin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2010

    Ask the Critic: Rumors of Death and Destruction from Unnamed Sources

    Still in the fight, and still swingin'​The rumor hit my desk early this week: Lunchbox Laboratory in Ballard was closing. From unnamed, anonymous and untrustworthy sources (from the Ballard restaurant grapevine, in other words), me and other members of the Voracious staff heard that the closur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2010

    Seattle's Essential Dishes: Bacon (and more bacon) Cheeseburger from Lunchbox Laboratory

    ​ Bacon Cheeseburger from Lunchbox Laboratory: There is nothing quite so quintessentially American as the cheeseburger. And there is nothing quite so quintessentially quintessential about America in general as excess. This? This is both things at the same time.

  • Food

    April 7, 2010

    Our Favorite Restaurants 2010

    ​ Bacon Cheeseburger from Lunchbox Laboratory: There is nothing quite so quintessentially American as the cheeseburger. And there is nothing quite so quintessentially quintessential about America in general as excess. This? This is both things at the same time.

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2010

    Doin' the Robot in Bangkok and Looking at Nasty (Food) Porn

    ​Okay, so we've got no Food Porn slideshow this week to go along with the review of Kylie's Chicago Pizza and Wallingford Pizza House. This is partly because I wasn't crazy for the pies at either place, but mostly because pictures of deep-dish pizzas all look essentially the same: a big tub of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2009

    Seattle's Top 5 Places for Mac and Cheese

    Picking the city's top bowls of mac and cheese is no easy task, mostly because just about every restaurant has a variation on the dish on its menu these days. This is where Facebook and Twitter prove their worth. An informal poll of Seattle's best mac and cheese spots yielded answers ranging from "B ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2009

    Restaurant Review Roundup

    You can always identify critics by our spindly, evil fingers.This week's restaurant reviews: At the Times, Providence Cicero writes up the Fall City Roadhouse, while Michael Upchurch gleefully overorders at Vios Cafe (the one in Third Place Bookstore). At Eat, Play, Love, Sumi Hahn enjoys the burg ... More >>

  • Food

    May 14, 2008

    Lunchbox Laboratory: Lab Coat Necessary

    This micro-restaurant makes every variety of burger you can name, and many you can’t. Just beware the bottom bun.

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2008

    Lunchbox Laboratory

    This micro-restaurant makes every variety of burger you can name, and many you can’t. Just beware the bottom bun.

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