“To be honest, I don’t like noodles,” confesses Miah Young, owner of Biang! (their exclamation point, which I’ll drop for the rest of this article),… Continue reading
Ballard’s Slate Coffee Bar is unique: There’s no line of people at a counter contemplating a big blackboard of options, but instead table service with… Continue reading
Renee Erickson has excelled in pickle-making, using pickled raisins, apricots, and French plums to great effect in her restaurants. You can bring all these home… Continue reading
Bellevue’s Bamboo Garden offers a regular menu for the timid, but I recommend taking a look at the “Walk on the Wild Side” menu. Here… Continue reading
Sushi Kappo Tamura is one of Seattle’s finest sushi restaurants, but it’s also my favorite place for ippins—small plates, both hot and cold, that I… Continue reading
Seattle’s a good city for sushi. Of all the fine sushi restaurants, Kisaku, in Tangletown, is one of my favorites. It has the feel of… Continue reading
There’s a big ramen boom in the area, with the best being the newest: Hokkaido Ramen Santouka. This was a known entity, as Santouka, based… Continue reading
Biang! (their exclamation point) might be my current pick for top dining destination in the area, largely due to one dish: the Hot Oil Seared… Continue reading
The southeast corner alone makes 12th and Jackson in Little Saigon the best, as it has perhaps the area’s top strip mall for food. Pho… Continue reading
I’d do almost anything to get my hands on good tonkatsu (a breaded, deep-fried pork cutlet), and you can literally do that at Katsu Burger… Continue reading
Throw a stone and you’ll hit a beet salad in a Seattle restaurant. Surely there’s a more innovative way to use this colorful and flavorful… Continue reading
I’m constantly apologizing to my Seattle-area friends for turning down dim sum invitations. Sure, dim sum is just dandy here compared to most of the… Continue reading
One of the more fascinating threads in the Chowhound online food-discussion forum is entitled “Asian desserts . . . why don’t I like them?” As a non-Asian who’s slowly… Continue reading
One of the more fascinating threads in the Chowhound online food-discussion forum is entitled “Asian desserts . . . why don’t I like them?” As a non-Asian who’s slowly… Continue reading
There may be more glamorous spots in Seattle for Vietnamese food, but my favorite is Huong Binh. Located in a restaurant-filled strip mall in the… Continue reading
Best BakeryLines went out the door from day one last spring at Capitol Hill’s Crumble & Flake Patisserie. The crowds have only recently begun to… Continue reading
Chinese food in Seattle is primarily Cantonese, which I find a bit boring generally and lacking in quality locally. (And don’t get me started on… Continue reading
