Food & Drink
Skillet Diner is Unpretentious, Really Good Food
The brick-and-mortar sister of food truck Skillet Street Food is as good as we'd hoped.
You’ve gotta figure that a guy who builds his business out of an Airstream trailer has a sense of humor and a lightness of heart, and Josh Henderson’s Skillet Diner—the new brick-and-mortar sister of food truck Skillet Street Food—proves you right. On the hottest new corner in “foodland,” 14th and Union (also home to the relocated…
Zippy’s Giant Burgers Has a Delicious Secret
Welcome to burger heaven. Now with booth seating.
It used to be that a visit to Zippy’s involved squeezing into a cramped space or waiting outside in the mini-mart parking lot for your burger. Now that Zippy’s has relocated to a corner spot in White Center, there are red vinyl booths, plenty of tables and a lot more breathing room. And I love…
Cravings: Kale
All of the sudden, we can't get enough of this hearty, nutritious and delicious green.
GOLDEN BEETLEMaria Hines’ newest restaurant serves up Carnation-based Full Circle Farm’s kale sautéed with harissa, lemon and garlic for a flavorful balance of earthy, bright and spicy notes. $8. Ballard, 1744 NW Market St.; 206.706.2977; golden-beetle.com BOAT STREET CAFEThe kale gratin brunch entrée’s baked-cheese top is melted over a creamy bed of kale, served with…
Cravings: Kale
All of the sudden, we can't get enough of this hearty, nutritious and delicious green.
GOLDEN BEETLEMaria Hines’ newest restaurant serves up Carnation-based Full Circle Farm’s kale sautéed with harissa, lemon and garlic for a flavorful balance of earthy, bright and spicy notes. $8. Ballard, 1744 NW Market St.; 206.706.2977; golden-beetle.com BOAT STREET CAFEThe kale gratin brunch entrée’s baked-cheese top is melted over a creamy bed of kale, served with…
The Forge Lounge
A new casual downtown Seattle bar is made for sandwich-lovers and ferry riders.
A new watering hole sits along the steel paths of the pedestrian walkway downtown, offering a sweet escape during long ferry waits. THE VIBE: A clean, industrial theme beckons: Brick walls are decked with black-and-white photos of steamers and steel workers, and drinkers sink down at one of three micro steel-lined tables or take a…
How to Use Marrons Glacés in Your Favorite Dessert
These candied, glazed chestnuts have been popular since Louis XIV's court.
What they are: The earliest recipe for marrons glacés, or candied and glazed chestnuts, originates from 16th-century France, and gained in popularity in Louis XIV’s opulent Versailles court. Thousands of years of careful breeding have made the choicest chestnuts—also called marrons—less bitter and naturally sweeter. How I discovered them: I have always loved chestnut desserts—one…
Link Lab is a Meat Lover’s Dream Come True
Why a former Microsoft librarian is now making specialty Northwest sausage.
Seattleites store all sorts of miscellany in their garages (bike racks, the inevitable rain boot collection, a gardening trowel, chicken feed) but Link Lab Artisan Meats owner David Pearlstein uses his Wallingford garage to house something much more high tech: the USDA-inspected and -approved sausage production facility of his dreams. After spending all of 2010…
Palikka: Seattle’s New Favorite Game
Inspired by the Finns, Wallingford's new gamemaker has Seattleites chucking wood.
The Northwest has a long history of knocking down logs, and while we no longer have endless forests to plunder, we do have…Palikka. The brainchild of Wallingford resident Santtu Winter, Palikka is based on the popular Finnish game Möllky, which Winter purchased while visiting his parents in Finland in 2006. Loving the game but wanting…
Best of the City Arts Fest
Our must-see picks for Seattle's newest music and arts festival.
For the second year in a row, the City Arts Festival is bringing arts of all genres to venues across Seattle (10/20–10/22; times, prices and venues vary; cityartsfest.com). If it all feels too gloriously overwhelming, just focus on our must-see picks below. MUSIC: The Long Winters, Cobirds Unite, Cataldo and Campfire OK (10/20; Showbox at…
Suggestions for a Sounders Mascot
After three seasons, Seattle's soccer team still has no mascot. We're here to help.
Here it is, the end of the Seattle Sounders’ third season, and our beloved team still has no mascot. What gives? The Portland Timbers have earned acres of press since joining MLS last spring—thanks in large part to their manly mascot, “Timber Joey,” a lumberjack who wields an actual (not foam!) chainsaw during games. Surely…
Fremont Gets a New Live Theater Space
AJ Epstein’s small, experimental arts space brings live theater back to the "Center of the Universe.
AJ Epstein doesn’t know quite what to call himself. The 40-year-old producer/director/lighting designer, who in June opened live theater venue West of Lenin in Fremont, has jokingly labeled himself “Responsible Party” and “El Presidente,” and has recently enjoyed the ring of “Arts Entrepreneur.” After verbally volleying all these options, he decides: “I’m an artist and…
Seattle choreographer Amy O’Neal
O’Neal prepares for a series of new solo and duet dances at Velocity Dance Center.
Amy O’Neal has worked with Pat Graney Company and Scott/Powell Performance, as well as her own companies, Locust and (currently) AmyO/tinyrage. She is artist-in-residence at Velocity Dance Center and will perform new solos and duets with Kathleen Hermesdorf as part of Velocity’s Guest Artist Series. 10/28–10/29. 8 p.m. Prices vary. Velocity Dance Center, 1621 12th…
Nordic Museum Shows Lady Gaga-Approved Fashion
The Nordic Fashion Biennale brings cutting-edge arts to Ballard.
Surely there is no better name than Hrafnhildur Arnardottir, the New York–based Icelandic artist famous for her outlandish sculptures, installations and costumes made of braided hair and wildly woolly fabrics. Arnardottir, who also goes by the handle “Shoplifter” and is a frequent collaborator with Björk, is the curator of Looking Back to Find Our Future,…
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