Eat & Drink

How Restaurants, Wine Tasting Rooms Opened Amid Covid

How Restaurants, Wine Tasting Rooms Opened Amid Covid

These entrepreneurs didn’t let the pandemic ruin their dreams. Here’s how they did it.

Sparkman Cellars in Woodinville

Comfort Food Confessionals

Comfort Food Confessionals

Here’s what experts make at home

First, Trophy Cupcakes; Second, Salt & Staw; Third, Metropolitan Market

Book Excerpt: Vegetarian Chinese Soul Food

Book Excerpt: Vegetarian Chinese Soul Food

Hsiao-Ching Chou offers up an ode to vegetables in her second cookbook

Hsiao-Ching Chou’s second cook-book, ‘Vegetarian Chinese Soul Food,’ is a follow-up to her popular Chinese Soul Food and will hit shelves Jan. 15. Hsiao-Ching is known for her sold-out classes that have made Chinese cooking accessible to home cooks, but with the pandemic she has shifted to social media to share her recipes and tips. …

Holiday Gift Guide: The Purpose-Driven Palate

Holiday Gift Guide: The Purpose-Driven Palate

Here’s how to support local food businesses

The Pantry at Delancy (First); The Table Less Travelled (Second); Mio Posto (Third); Hello Robin (Fourth); New Day Cooperative (Fifth)

Finding Comfort in Cookbooks

Finding Comfort in Cookbooks

Two cookbook aficionados dish on their favorite books and recipes

Lara Hamilton (First), owns Book Larder. Susan Roxborough (Second) is the executive editor at Sasquatch Books.

Thanksgiving Takeout

Thanksgiving Takeout

Here are a few of our favorites around Seattle

“Met-at-Home” Thanksgiving package.

Salt & Straw to Open Third Seattle location in North Kirkland

Salt & Straw to Open Third Seattle location in North Kirkland

The newest shop, located in Kirkland’s Totem Lake neighborhood, will open Nov. 20

Iconic Portland-based ice cream company Salt & Straw is opening its third location in the Puget Sound area.  The newest shop, located in Kirkland’s Totem Lake neighborhood, will open Friday, Nov. 20. The shop will have 10 Salt & Straw classic flavors, including Honey Lavender, Sea Salt with Caramel Ribbons and Chocolate Gooey Brownie. The…

Sweet Shift

Sweet Shift

Pleasant Beach Donuts is a creative pandemic pivot

Almost every business has had to alter its approach radically since the pandemic. Fine-dining restaurant Canlis, for instance, closed its dining room and has since embraced several new concepts, including outdoor movie nights, drive-through takeout and crab feasts on its deck. Few, however, have pivoted as creatively as 22-room Pleasant Beach Village on Bainbridge Island….

Seattle Butcher Etana Diaz Talks Culinary Industry Bias in Hulu Documentary

Seattle Butcher Etana Diaz Talks Culinary Industry Bias in Hulu Documentary

'A Woman’s Place' tells the stories of three women who have fought their way through a male-dominated industry

Seattle-based butcher Etana Diaz is featured in “A Woman’s Place,” a powerful 30-minute documentary exploring sexism in the culinary industry. “A Woman’s Place” tells the stories of three women who have fought their way through a male-dominated industry. After six years of cooking in Seattle restaurants, Diaz left the industry to learn how to become…

Kids Can Learn to Slice, Dice, Bake and Broil through PCC Community Markets Cooking Class

Kids Can Learn to Slice, Dice, Bake and Broil through PCC Community Markets Cooking Class

The program is for students from third to fifth grade

PCC Community Markets is helping make your child’s online learning a little bit tastier.  In partnership with Clara Barton Parent Teacher Student Association in Redmond, PCC Community Markets will provide virtual cooking classes for kids from third to fifth grade. The program will run 11 weeks and begins on Sept. 24 for Clara Barton Elementary…

You Can't Stay Inside Forever

You Can’t Stay Inside Forever

How to throw a small party and remain safe

This story appears in the July-August combo issue of Seattle magazine and Seattle Business magazine. Subscription information is here. Hosting a get-together in the pandemic has certainly created new challenges but it’s doable. To ensure the virus is not spread between guests or from the meal, it’s obvious that extra precautions must be taken, but many…

Washington Residents Order More Takeout Than Those in Other States

Washington Residents Order More Takeout Than Those in Other States

Bid-on-Equipment found that Washington ranks No. 10 based on Google searches

Washington residents love their takeout. Slightly more than 8% of Google searches in the state have included “takeout” since the pandemic began, according to a study by equipment company Bid-on-Equipment. That ranks the state No. 10 in the nation. The “United States of Takeout” survey found that 65% of customers across the country are ordering more takeout…

Molly Moon’s New Bellevue Location is Company’s Most Ambitious

Molly Moon’s New Bellevue Location is Company’s Most Ambitious

Large kitchen can be seen from sidewalk

Molly Moon Neitzel

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