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Trader Vic's Inc.

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2012

    Downtown is a Cocktail Desert on Sundays

    Participants in yesterday's Big Climb at Columbia Center didn't have any trouble finding strawberry slushes or coconut pineapple sports drinks after the race. But runners assigned afternoon start times had a considerably harder time finding stiffer beverages to celebrate their ascents. After I bar ... More >>

  • Food

    February 1, 2012

    Chopsticks' Loyal Lushes

    Strength trumps substance at Edmonds' favorite Chinese lounge.

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2012

    Chopsticks Has Been Serving Local Lushes for Almost 50 Years

    The Watering Hole: Chopsticks, 23025 100th Ave West EDMONDS, 425-776-1196 The Atmosphere: Chopsticks is the Chinese restaurant our family frequented when I was growing up in Edmonds. While I was never allowed in the bar as a youngster, I would sometimes peek inside while we waited for take-out. My ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2012

    Chino's Walter and Mari Lee Boast Mexican and Taiwanese Eats at Their Modern Day Tiki Lounge

    Walter Lee is Taiwanese, and grew up in a predominantly Mexican neighborhood near Los Angeles. His wife Mari is Mexican, and grew up in a predominantly Chinese neighborhood near Los Angeles. Together, they opened Chino's last month in Capitol Hill, serving up a mix of Mexican and Taiwanese bites to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2012

    Daniel Sandal, Founder of Daniel's Broiler, Dies at 71

    Daniel Sandal, a Seattle meat supplier and restaurateur credited with emphasizing food and drink quality "in those days when there was no such thing as a foodie," died Sunday. He was 71. "He made a strong contribution to the quality of food in this city," says former partner Arnold Shain, with whom ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2012

    The American Fondness for Crab Rangoon

    ​After listening to my Christmas night lecture on the history of Chinese-American restaurants, an attendee who'd managed not to be distracted by host restaurant Tai Tung's spinning lazy Susans, freighted with chop suey, chow mein, almond chicken and sweet and sour spareribs, had a very fair qu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2011

    Inventing a Hanukkah Cocktail

    ​Even when served under the non-comittal heading of "holiday," most seasonal cocktails taste like Christmas. Swamped with the flavors of nutmeg and cream, cinnamon and peppermint, the drinks evoke evenings spent trimming trees and hanging stockings. "There are 20 volumes on Christmas cocktail ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2011

    Tiki Drinks Are Finding a Home in Seattle

    Forget the rum float, I like to shake the heck out of my mai tais and drink immediately.​Tiki drinks such as the Singapore sling, zombie and mai tai may have had their heyday in the 1940s and 50s, but thanks to the renewed interested in classic, finely crafted cocktails, tiki drinks are findin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2011

    A Peek Behind the Curtains of LUPEC

    ​Welcome to In the Cups, a new weekly column about booze in all its delicious and varied forms. Every Monday, Voracious blogger Sonja Groset will focus on wine, beer, spirits or other libation. Whether it's a new distillery, a wine tasting class, a beer tasting festival, or other booze news, y ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2009

    Pour on the Pride: The 6 Gayest Buildings in Seattle

    Gay-chitecture: When there's something about a building--or house or architectural icon--that pushes past the utilitarian, but isn't screamingly queer or kitschy. And no water towers or smokestacks, please. Gaychitecture isn't flamboyant. It takes accepted design idioms then delivers them with an ex ... More >>

  • Arts

    May 27, 2009

    The Slutty Eye Visits the Zoo

    Gay-chitecture: When there's something about a building--or house or architectural icon--that pushes past the utilitarian, but isn't screamingly queer or kitschy. And no water towers or smokestacks, please. Gaychitecture isn't flamboyant. It takes accepted design idioms then delivers them with an ex ... More >>

  • Food

    January 14, 2009

    Reviving Three Classics From Grandma’s Liquor Cabinet

    Starting with the Pink Squirrel.

  • Food

    June 4, 2008

    More Than Almond Syrup

    Beach up any summer drink with orgeat.

  • Food

    March 12, 2008

    Sun Liquor Feels Like Home

    A home created by the makers of Fargo and Raising Arizona.

  • Food

    April 26, 2006

    Oasis on the Eastside

    Trader Vic's returns—to Bellevue, but Bellevue needs it more than we do.

  • Arts

    April 19, 2006

    Bumberhits and Misses

    Festival lineup looks good—and not so. Plus: Film Fest and Black Box Opera news.

  • Food

    February 23, 2005

    Aloha? Oy!

    Trader Vic is gone, but his Mai Tai spirit lives on in Seattle.

  • Music

    May 9, 2001

    Crocodile Rocks

    How a nightclub overcame fierce competition and adapted to the gentrification of its neighborhood to thrive for 10 years—and counting.

  • Music

    July 19, 2000

    Why Hawaii?

    How a nightclub overcame fierce competition and adapted to the gentrification of its neighborhood to thrive for 10 years—and counting.

  • News

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    Lists of the '90s

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