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Noodles a Go-Go

Every week on our food blog, Voracious, I write up a local noodle dish of note in a post called The Thin Wheat Line. Here are a few of the recent... More>>

By Jonathan Kauffman

Published: July 01, 2009

Plaka Estiatorio: Great for Kids, Better for Wednesday Nights

In a city with only one McDonald's Playland, has Greek become the family cuisine of choice? Half the kids in this city have grown up with... More>>

By Jonathan Kauffman

Published: June 24, 2009

Beyond Bulgogi: Korean Pig Is What’s Worth Eating

Koreans believe that if you dream of a pig, you'll get rich in the morning," Dan Gray of the blog Seoul Eats recently told me. Unfortunately,... More>>

By Jonathan Kauffman

Published: June 17, 2009

The New Age of Deviled Eggs

Fifteen years ago, just before the dot-com boom turned West Coast cities into havens for high-tech douchitude, we rediscovered the Swing Era.... More>>

By Jonathan Kauffman

Published: June 10, 2009

The Queen of White Center

Queen's Deli may be the most attractive storefront on White Center's 14th Avenue, a street where auto-body shops and strip malls alternate with... More>>

By Jonathan Kauffman

Published: June 03, 2009

Homegrown Sandwiches: Fantasies Fulfilled

Sandwiches are the haiku of the food world: No one is too daunted to get creative. The reason, I think, is that as children we're given free rein... More>>

By Jonathan Kauffman

Published: May 27, 2009

Long Provincial Vietnamese Elevates the Tamarind Tree’s Legacy

Four and a half years since Tam Nguyen and his family opened Tamarind Tree, Seattleites still like to describe the Little Saigon restaurant as a... More>>

By Jonathan Kauffman

Published: May 20, 2009

Moving Beyond the Burrito

Despite what most non-Latino customers order at the taco truck or taqueria, tacos and burritos are just one of a class of late-night snacks,... More>>

By Jonathan Kauffman

Published: May 13, 2009

Crawfish King: Authentic Vietnamese Cajun, Houston-Style

If you refuse to wear vinyl to Crawfish King, at least leave your dry-clean-only clothes at home. Halfway through my second meal at the new Cajun... More>>

By Jonathan Kauffman

Published: May 06, 2009

Anchovies & Olives: Unmistakably Ethan Stowell

The only way to remain on top of the bestseller lists is to settle on a formula and master it. Look at Elmore Leonard, 83 and on his 46th novel.... More>>

By Jonathan Kauffman

Published: April 29, 2009

How Art of the Table Makes Monday Bearable

Monday is not a good day for most restaurants, especially not these days. But walk into Wallingford's Art of the Table on a "Happy Monday," and... More>>

By Sumi Hahn

Published: April 22, 2009

Seattle’s Best Examples of a Thai Cliché

I was in Thailand on a short stop en route to Hanoi a few years ago, and none of the ATMs accepted my debit card. So to pay for my hotel, I had... More>>

By Jonathan Kauffman

Published: April 15, 2009

Tilikum Place Café Is All Goods, No Buzz

It's hard to think of a dish more prosaic than lentil soup. This sturdy slurry usually tastes like it looks--brown and mushy. So when the cup I... More>>

By Sumi Hahn

Published: April 08, 2009

Monsoon East: The Accidental Child

You know those parents who, about the time that their first two kids are reading Harry Potter, get sloppy with the birth control and end up with... More>>

By Jonathan Kauffman

Published: April 01, 2009

How to Make Roast Chicken Palatable

In general, I think that the best roast chicken is the one that comes out of your own oven. Every few months I roast up a chicken for Sunday... More>>

By Jonathan Kauffman

Published: March 25, 2009

Healing From a Hot Pot

A few years back, when a pair of University of Nebraska researchers made national news by proving that one of their Jewish grandmother's recipes... More>>

By Jonathan Kauffman

Published: March 18, 2009

Barrio’s Missed Opportunity

Three surprises await the first-time visitor to Barrio. There are the high dungeon doors, of course. You brace yourself to muscle one of them... More>>

By Jonathan Kauffman

Published: March 04, 2009

The Thin Wheat Line

This past fall, I embarked on a mission to ferret out the best noodle dishes the Puget Sound area has to offer. These weekly expeditions,... More>>

By Jonathan Kauffman

Published: February 25, 2009

Does Oddfellows Gentrify or Rectify?

Linda Derschang's gift for ambience grows more potent and focused with every venture. Oddfellows Cafe & Bar, which opened six weeks ago, makes... More>>

By Jonathan Kauffman

Published: February 18, 2009

Barley Wines Offer a Safer Bet Than Stocks

After the big comedown of the holiday season in Seattle, seasonal affective disorder always sets in. We look to a giant rodent for weather... More>>

By Maggie Savarino Dutton

Published: February 18, 2009

Elliott Bay Cafe and the Gravity of Lunch

You may get sick of the endless repetition of cereal and milk or eggs and bacon, but to me breakfast is a ritual that stretches back to... More>>

By Jonathan Kauffman

Published: February 11, 2009

Shiku Sushi’s Hat Trick

If there's a neighborhood that seems as though it should be glutted with sushi, it's Ballard. Not that Fishermen's Terminal is the city's point... More>>

By Jonathan Kauffman

Published: February 04, 2009

Brats, Chops, and Beaux Arts

Call the Washington Liquor Control Board what you will and I'll agree with you: bloated, anachronistic, illogical, anti-entrepreneurial,... More>>

By Jonathan Kauffman

Published: January 28, 2009

Only a Fool Skips a Winter Hot Pot

The waitress at Sorabol wheels a stainless-steel cart to us and strong-arms a wok and a small gas burner onto our table. The wok is so full that... More>>

By Jonathan Kauffman

Published: January 21, 2009

Treasure Map in a Plastic Sleeve

Maliny Phengsavanh is used to hedging her bets. She opened Chao Praya, Kent's first Thai restaurant, 18 years ago. "It took us a year and a half... More>>

By Jonathan Kauffman

Published: January 14, 2009