I still remember the first time I had pisco. My sister was coming back from a year in Chile, and…
I’m just old enough to remember when e-commerce was little more than an idea—when the notion of buying online was…
There’s nothing quite like live performance art, and more and more I’m coming to realize that one of our city’s…
The first warning sign might have been when Jamie Boudreau stained the bar at Canon with two cases of Angostura…
Recently, the city of Olympia and the Washington State Liquor Control Board agreed on a plan that will prohibit the…
As wine lists get increasingly more complicated—adding cask wines, more local wines, more obscure wineries, for instance—it can be difficult…
When the weather turns nice and we get some of those gorgeous April days that Seattle can muster, for many…
Taste Washington is an incredible opportunity for wine lovers. But what rarely gets talked about is how it’s also a…
At this point, the Seattle beer scene and the IPA are inextricably linked, for any number of reasons: our close…
Seattle, sometime in the past few years, you killed off the bartender. In its place we have the “mixologist,” but…
You can usually fill a medium-sized dictionary with the words used to describe wines, especially if you really like obscure…
Repeating is hard. Not to pick at the wound, but just ask the Seahawks. So watching Angel Teta repeat as…
From the outside, a craft bartender is one part wizard, one part magician, and one part scholar—able to pull obscure…
What happens when you combine a bunch of the best female bartenders in the Pacific Northwest, a veritable ocean of…
We in the food and beverage industry call it going over to the Dark Side. Every so often, a talented…
Most of the great bars in Seattle are where you’d expect to find them: Capitol Hill, Ballard, and the city’s…
A lot of attention has been paid to sommeliers in the past few years. Given the complexity of the wine…
The holidays are all about tradition: getting together with loved ones, sitting down to a festive meal, watching a football…
The holidays are all about tradition: getting together with loved ones, sitting down to a festive meal, maybe watching a…
Buying booze in Seattle has always been a bit of a hassle. For years you had to deal with state-run…
The world of wine is full of classic dualities: red/white, Old World/New, cheap/expensive. One of them is incredibly important, even…
Bars are wonderful, magical places. Besides the usual joys of a well-made drink or a cold, crisp beer, they’re also…
