Food & Drink
Valentine’s Day Means Spa Time
A list of sexy, soothing packages avaliable at local spas.
Here’s a list of some sexy, soothing pampering packages at local spas: Alderbrook, a stunningly relaxing spot on Hood Canal, is offering several romantic spa treatments, available throughout the whole month of February. The Besos is a 60-minute cocoa-infused exfoliating rub for two that leaves your skin glowing and soft ($105 per person); The Cupid’s…
Belltown Unites for the Homeless
Save Your Sole consignment boutique and other Belltown/Midtown businesses have joined together in Belltown Unites, a partnership dedicated to helping keep some of the 2,500 homeless people sleeping on the streets of Seattle warm this winter. Each business has created a special promotion to donate warm wool blankets to the homeless community with a goal…
A Smart Conversation about Guns
Last night, Town Hall hosted a forum on gun violence that didn’t devolve into a shouting match and included only one mention of Ann Coulter. Entitled “Gun Violence: A Public Health Crisis,” this first of three February civic forums was an evidence-based look at the patterns, impact and cost of gun-related “unintentional” deaths, suicide and…
Help Kickstart Michael Cepress
I’m a little obsessed with Kickstarter—the popular crowd-funding website—and often get lost in the site, checking out the cool, weird and improbable campaigns that people launch. I’ve always loved the thought of being a benefactor, and Kickstarter is a great way to do that on a micro-level, since a few bucks often makes all the…
Vancouver-Based Aritzia to Open at University Village
Vancouver, BC-based retailer, Aritzia, has announced that their first Seattle location will open on March 14 in University Village. If the name is familiar, it’s because they already have a boutique in Bellevue Square, their first in the US, which has been open since 2007. The brand started out as one boutique in Vancouver in…
Seattle Reign Owner Has Tough Words for the Sounders
Last we spoke with Seattle entrepreneur Bill Predmore, he was discussing his love of Pop and street art (if you liked the documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop, his personal art collection would have you drooling). These days he’s gearing up for the first season of Seattle Reign, the first professional women’s soccer team in…
Field Guide to Seattle Chocolate & Candy
The complete compendium of Seattle’s best sugary treats including plenty of chocolate.
No gift rings more cliché than a box of chocolate or candy for Valentine’s Day—except maybe in Seattle. Our city harbors a mind-blowing array of amazing boutique chocolate producers, from purveyors such as Fran Bigelow, whose famous brand Fran’s is now in its 30th year, to sourcing experts such as Theo Chocolate, which is now…
It’s Not Easy Building Green
A Seattle neighborhood's complaints about a "deep green" building raise key questions about zoning.
She is nine months pregnant on this sunny fall day. But that doesn’t stop Katherine Bragdon from taking a walk (more like a waddle) from her picture-perfect, red-shingled Wallingford bungalow to the nerve center of the neighborhood where Stone Way rolls down to the north shore of Lake Union. “South Wallingford is a special neighborhood,…
Searching for Sasquatch
A Seattle scientist plays skeptic on Animal Planet' shit show 'Finding Bigfoot'.
Let’s be clear: Scientist Ranae Holland, who can be seen on the Animal Planet reality show Finding Bigfoot tromping around various woods, sporting night-vision gogs and listening carefully to weird sounds, absolutely does not believe Sasquatch exists. Nevertheless, the 42-year-old research field biologist, who attended the University of Washington’s School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences…
The Perfect Leather Tote
We love this bag collection from Tacoma-based designer Laurel Dasso.
A simple leather tote bag, reliably versatile and able to carry almost anything asked of it, can weather the winds of time. In fact, a little bit of weathering, over years of use, is exactly what makes classic leather bags so perfect. It is in that spirit (simple, durable, affordable) that Tacoma-based designer Laurel Dasso…
Extra Starch: Previewing the January 2013 Issue
Our editor-in-chief reflects on the bigger picture of the latest issue of Seattle magazine.
When we were brainstorming ideas for our January issue, thinking about what we crave this time of year and pontificating on what constitutes Seattle’s ultimate comfort food, it didn’t take long to come to the conclusion. When winter (OK, fall) comes to Seattle, we chase away the damp chill with giant, steaming bowls of noodles,…
Best Pasta Dishes at Local Italian Restaurants
Stunningly good pasta dishes run the gamut, from understated elegance to decadent and over the top.
Storied Italian women are said to sit on old stools set on cobblestone streets, rolling gnocchi off forks, pinching pasta into hankie shapes or cutting it into short tubes. Locally, pasta makers hand-cut fine, fresh pastas, too, and they are stunningly good. Our favorite local pasta dishes run the gamut, from understated elegance to decadent…
Handcrafted Noodles from Fremont’s Soba Studio
The owner of Miyabi 45th in Wallingford makes Japanese teuchi soba the old-fashioned way.
There are no shortcuts at Mutsuko Soma’s Fremont soba studio. Here, in a tiny, sunny room, she makes the Japanese teuchi soba the way she learned at soba school in Japan, which she attended in 2008, after working at Seattle restaurants such as The Harvest Vine and Saito’s. First, she grinds her own Washington-grown buckwheat…
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