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  • Food

    May 16, 2012

    Elliott's Oysters Al Fresco

    Outdoor shucking completes a surprisingly laborious trip t Downtown Seattle's waterfront.

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2012

    Elliott's to Open Outdoor Oyster Bar

    Among the Pacific Northwest's greatest joys are sunny summer days and freshly-shucked oysters, but Seattle eaters rarely have the opportunity to experience them simultaneously. Consolidated Restaurants is looking to correct that situation with the city's first outdoor oyster bar. Elliott's Seafood ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2012

    100 Favorite Dishes: Oysters at Taylor Shellfish Melrose

    Southerners believe in talking to strangers on buses, which means many of my cross-town trips in Asheville, N.C. were spent learning about bitter custody battles, sick grandmothers and lousy bosses. I also recall the griping of a man who'd just moved to town and was extremely disappointed. "They tol ... More >>

  • Food

    March 21, 2012

    Voracious Dining Guide

    Our 2012 neighborhood snackdown!

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2012

    What Makes an Ideal Oyster Bar?

    At seafood marketer Jon Rowley's dream oyster bar, there's pan roast on the menu, Charles Mingus on the stereo and a print of Lewis Carroll's The Walrus and The Carpenter in the bathroom. "Over the past 20 years, I've had the good fortune to work as a consultant on a number of successful oyster bar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2012

    Bizarre Foods' Seattle Episode, in 60 Seconds

    Bizarre Foods last night broadcast its Seattle episode, a travelogue that ricocheted between the city's slimiest and most scientific foods. Since the show ran for a full hour -- although it felt like eight when host Andrew Zimmern learned how to pull espresso - we're presenting here a condensed vers ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2011

    Eight Months of Eating, 10 Outstanding Dishes

    Culture shock? Here's the last meal I reviewed in Dallas.​Year-end lists are always agonizing. It's not easy pitting a burger against octopus crudo when bestowing "best of" status, or whittling down the candidate list to five, 10 or some other arbitrary number. But the task is especially hard ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2011

    "It's Not About the Wine, It's About the Oyster"

    Photo Courtesy Mike Urban, Elliott's Oyster House​We generally stick to the booze talk here on In the Cups, but occasionally this boozehound needs to eat too. I love the seasonality of booze--beer specifically--but love the seasonality of food even more. Pacific Coast oysters can be enjoyed ye ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2011

    Taylor Shellfish Hawks Better Way to Crack a Crab

    Inside Puget Sound Dungeness crab season started this week, giving eaters another chance to curse their pliers-style crackers. The popular shell openers reliably make a mess of crabs, says seafood marketer Jon Rowley, who's enthusiastically hawking a tool designed to remove leg and claw meat withou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2011

    Taylor Shellfish Celebrates Grand Opening Today

    ​Taylor Shellfish Farm today celebrates the grand opening of its retail location at Melrose Market, an expansion that coincides with increased consumer interest in shellfish. According to a report in Nation's Restaurant News, overall seafood consumption in restaurants has been on the decline ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2011

    Sustainable Seafood Expert Asks Fellow Americans to Eat Farmed Shellfish

    ​Author Barton Seaver, who's spent a whirlwind week in Seattle promoting his latest book on sustainable seafood, believes every Fourth of July celebration should feature domestic farm-raised shellfish. "It's our patriotic duty to eat farm-raised mussels, clams and oysters," says Seaver, citin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2011

    Bad Albert's Says Goodbye to Ballard After 16 Years of Business, Five Guys Burgers and Fries Takes Over the Suburbs, & More

    Sahara Pizza is coming to Ballard!​First off, in Ballard, beloved watering hole Bad Albert's Tap & Grill at 5100 Ballard Ave. N.W. is saying goodbye next month after 16 years of business. The owner cites both the economy and his own health issues. In more upbeat news for the neighborhood, Saha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2011

    Sahara Pizza to Open in Ballard; Taylor Shellfish Sets Up Shop on Capitol Hill

    Courtesy of Sahara Pizza​Sahara Pizza is opening its first Seattle location on the corner of 15th Avenue Northwest and Northwest 65th Street, according to My Ballard. The pizza chain currently has 20 locations in the Northwest and two in South America. In other news, Capitol Hill Seattle repo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2011

    Nitro-Shucked Oysters & Good Fish

    I don't have a lot of experience shucking--I find it awkward and a little dangerous to go jabbing a blade into an oyster's crevice.  So it's a good thing I can use liquid nitrogen to do the work instead.  Nitro-shucking, or cryoshucking, is the process of opening the shells of mollusks by ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2011

    Channeling Hemingway In Search Of The Ultimate Oyster Wine

    Photo by Leslie KellyMy view at yesterday's Oyster Wine finals. Pretty awesome, right?​The room was church-quiet, the reverential silence punctured only by the sound of slurping as a group of judges worked diligently to find the perfect oyster wine. This was serious business, yet it was all I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2011

    New Year's Resolution: Go Forth and Forage

    Photo provided by Langdon Cook​Perhaps more than anywhere else in the country, people in the PNW are wildly in touch with their hunter-gatherer gene. Maybe it's the mild weather that makes it possible to unearth delicious treasures year-round, or simply the fact that we're smart - at the very ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2011

    Resolution for 2011: Eat More Balls

    Photo by Leslie KellyWho wouldn't want to eat more chocolate balls?​No, silly. I'm not talking about Rocky Mountain Oysters or, as those tender calf testicles are called in Montana, swinging steaks. Instead I'm talking about meatballs, specifically the spectacular meatball sandwich at Salumi, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2010

    Will Blog for Food: Art of the Buffet Table

    Oysters​The first time I went to Art of the Table (1054 N. 39th St., 282-0942) was to interview chef/owner Dustin Ronspies when the restaurant first opened. The second time I went was this past Saturday, to celebrate the birthday of AOTT's co-owner and photographer, Laurie O'Donnell. I have ye ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2010

    Little Seen Oyster Comes to Town

    credit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belon_oyster​There's a rare oyster in town, courtesy of Taylor Shellfish, called the Samish flat oyster. "These are a French oyster," explains Oyster Bill (Bill Whitbeck), the man who sells the bivalves at farmers markets, "the same species as the Belon oyster, b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2009

    Nooooooo... Shigokus

    ​Due to extremely high demand, Shigoku oysters were already becoming the four leaf clover of the bivalves. Shigoku oysters are a new, tumbled oyster from Taylor Shellfish Farms; they have a deeper cup (from the tumbling) and therefore plumper morsel of the mollusk. It's the Adrienne Barbeau of ... More >>

  • News

    October 14, 2009

    The Squawking Over Sustainable Geoducks

    Taylor Shellfish says they’ll never be able to appease their critics.

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2009

    Big Shellfish vs. the Little Guys: On Oysters, Geoducks and Who Gets a Booth

    Dear lord, send it back from whence it came!​This past Saturday, a bunch of folks who care very much about the health of the world's oceans got together at Pier 66 for the first-annual Blue Festival. They're just like you and me, in that they want to eat fish without toxins and swim without ge ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2009

    More Inauguration Day To Dos

    Whether you're playing hookie and making it a four day weekend or you're planning on catching up in the evening, here are a few more places to go and watch the big event:South Lake Union (PM): Obama Ball at the Armory, 6:00pm to 10:00pmFor $22 per person (kids enter for free), you get a sixteen piec ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 30, 2008

    Oyster Roast

    Whether you're playing hookie and making it a four day weekend or you're planning on catching up in the evening, here are a few more places to go and watch the big event:South Lake Union (PM): Obama Ball at the Armory, 6:00pm to 10:00pmFor $22 per person (kids enter for free), you get a sixteen piec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2007

    Oh, Mother

    Whether you're playing hookie and making it a four day weekend or you're planning on catching up in the evening, here are a few more places to go and watch the big event:South Lake Union (PM): Obama Ball at the Armory, 6:00pm to 10:00pmFor $22 per person (kids enter for free), you get a sixteen piec ... More >>

  • Food

    December 1, 2004

    Meet Market

    When fishermen and chefs hook up, you get great fish.

  • Food

    September 22, 2004

    Fresh Potatoes, Garlic Braids, and Pepper Wreaths

    When fishermen and chefs hook up, you get great fish.

  • Food

    August 11, 2004

    Market Fresh

    When fishermen and chefs hook up, you get great fish.

  • Food

    March 24, 2004

    Oystermania

    Consumption of those clammy, slippery bivalves is booming. By Roger Downey

  • Food

    January 2, 2002

    Cook's books

    Consumption of those clammy, slippery bivalves is booming. By Roger Downey

  • Food

    August 1, 2001

    Side Dish

    Consumption of those clammy, slippery bivalves is booming. By Roger Downey

  • News

    July 12, 2000

    Viagra on the Half Shell

    Dreamers, schemers, and scientists try to catch and cultivate the Northwest's most potent icon.

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