Meat Beet Manifesto Not a month after its opening, Matt Dillon and Wylie Bush's new restaurant, The Corson Building, inspired one of the most fascinating exchanges...
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By Jonathan Kauffman
Published: September 03, 2008
The $21 Seafood Feast in the ID I thought a party of seven on a Wednesday night would be the gorilla in the room. But I'd never been to the back end of V Garden Seafood...
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By Jonathan Kauffman
Published: August 20, 2008
Lighting Up the Pan- Columbia City is fast becoming Seattle's Caribbean restaurant district, with a lot more red, gold, and green in the mid-Rainier strip than ever...
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By Jonathan Kauffman
Published: August 13, 2008
Perfectly Served at Branzino Seattleite attitudes toward service--from both a care-provider and a care-receiver perspective--seem as conflicted as our feelings about light...
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By Jonathan Kauffman
Published: July 30, 2008
Spring Hill: Meet the New Northwest As any Top Chef addict can attest, the bright young things of the kitchen world seem to have tired of Alice Waters' ingredient-focused comfort...
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By Jonathan Kauffman
Published: July 23, 2008
Rubbing With the Stars In the new millennium, we are all brands. The press uses poll results to talk about whether Obama's "brand" is rising or falling. Only a decade...
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By Jonathan Kauffman
Published: July 16, 2008
This is Fry Country When it comes to tracking food trends, the "retro" column in my ledger filled up years ago. Blame it on meatloaf: Back in the 1980s, the...
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By Jonathan Kauffman
Published: July 09, 2008
Hows Rudolph Taste? In many ways, Ed's Kort Haus is a quintessential Seattle dive. It's dark and spacious, with a pool table and horseshoe bar. It features an...
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By Mike Seely
Published: July 02, 2008
Locavorism Has Its Limits at Bizzarro When my friends and I looked over Bizzarro Italian Cafe's menu last week, we spotted Mama Lil's peppers and cherry tomatoes, but also bananas...
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By Jonathan Kauffman
Published: June 25, 2008
Kawali Grills Perfect Scramble These days, every chef talks about her food as if it were more than an expression of her unique palate. It's also a personal testimony summing up...
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By Jonathan Kauffman
Published: June 11, 2008
Run for the Border While most Mexican restaurants in the U.S. serve mole, it's generally Puebla-style--a deep brown, sweet-spicy sauce of dried chiles, nuts,...
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By Jonathan Kauffman
Published: May 28, 2008
Tofu Haz a Flavor Last week, I caught a commercial for soy milk in which a group of middle-aged women stand around a kitchen island, daring one another to drink...
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By Jonathan Kauffman
Published: May 21, 2008
Lunchbox Laboratory: Lab Coat Necessary Opening the door to Ballard's Lunchbox Laboratory, I spotted my lunch date just on the other side, huddling back from the burger line, staring at...
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By Jonathan Kauffman
Published: May 14, 2008
A Tea Two-fer Among the gastronomic pastimes that are now nearly extinct, afternoon tea ranks with the legendary smorgasbord and the three-martini lunch. True,...
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By Maggie Dutton
Published: May 07, 2008
The Silver Bullet of Seattle Street Food Joshua Henderson and Danny Sizemore have two things going right for them today: The sun's out, and they haven't been towed. Since they hatched...
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By Jesse Froehling
Published: April 30, 2008
Investigating New Taco Trucks in the Wild Some people buy $1,400 Brunton binoculars to stand in a field waiting for a sighting of a Eurasian dotterel. Others fly to Los Angeles to lurk...
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By Jonathan Kauffman
Published: April 09, 2008
How Do You Take Your Tapas? Two dinners, 20 small plates, and a half-dozen used toothpicks have passed through my hands, and I'm still impressed with how much Ocho feels...
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By Jonathan Kauffman
Published: March 26, 2008
Bada Sushis Sashimi Is Amazingly Fresh If I had any doubts about whether Bada Sushi's "live sashimi" was simply a fancy name for "fresh fish," the entryway dispelled them. It was lined...
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By Jonathan Kauffman
Published: March 19, 2008
Ramen Is Ready for Its Slurp-Up Ramen is having a moment. Just as pizza fanatics have returned to Naples to bring us back the true pizza experience, the ramen coming into vogue...
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By Jonathan Kauffman
Published: March 12, 2008
Habesha Is Worth a Trip to the Triangle There still aren't many reasons to venture into the morass of the Denny Triangle without a map, a compass, and a St. Anthony medal. The...
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By Jonathan Kauffman
Published: February 13, 2008