Food & Drink
Must List: Northwest Chocolate Festival, Short Run Comix and Arts Festival, Cinema Italian Style
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Love the Must List? Get it right in your inbox. Subscribe. MUST BE SWEET Northwest Chocolate Festival (11/9-11/10) Get your fix of handmade truffles, caramels and quirky confections at the largest celebration in the world for chocolate lovers. Featuring about 100 artisanal chocolatiers from 20 countries, the event entices with handcrafted, dark and milk chocolate treats…
Backstory: How a 1950s Seattle Ice Cream Shop Became a Boat-shaped Pho Institution
Seattle's love affair with pho started at this iconic spot
This article appears in print in the November 2019 issue. Click here to subscribe. The landmark. Pho Bac RestaurantThe location. Chinatown–International District, 1314 S Jackson St. The backstory. At the corner of what is perhaps Little Saigon’s busiest intersection, a boat-shaped building and yellow faux palm tree mark the birthplace of Seattle’s love affair with pho. But before…
A ‘Beautiful’ Debut at Seattle’s Can Can Culinary Cabaret
Singer Renee Holiday, née Shaprece, is back in town to share a story of transformation with Seattle audiences
Ladies and gentlemen, meet Renee Holiday. Deep in the plush crimson grotto that is the Can Can Culinary Cabaret in Pike Place Market, one of the most reliably fun venues in town, a new star is preparing to rise. You may know her as Shaprece, with the dreamy vocals and powerful stage presence—a singer who…
Your Seattle Restaurant Questions Answered: Pupusas, Hawaiian BBQ and Steak Frites
Plus: Where to take out-of-towners
Our Instagram is a great place to find amazing photography and get the scoop on what’s going on in the city. It’s also where our editor-in-chief, Chelsea Lin, answers reader questions about eating out in Seattle. Every Wednesday, she’s on our Instagram story uncovering the best spots to satisfy your cravings. We’ve got her answers from the…
15 Restaurants Serving Thanksgiving Dinner 2019
Turn off the oven and let Seattle chefs make you a fantastic holiday meal
You can forego the hours of cooking and loads of dishes to clean on Thanksgiving with the many Seattle restaurants who are offering special, chef-prepared Thanksgiving meals this year. Vegetarian and vegan options are available at some as well as multi-course meals that range from four to nine dishes, some more traditional, others more experimental….
Celebrity Hairstylist Chris Appleton Talks Seattle, Hair Essentials and Trends
The England-born trendsetter counts Kim Kardashian West and Jennifer Lopez as clients
Chris Appleton doesn’t get frazzled easily. In fact, the celebrity hairstylist admits that he works best under pressure, evidenced on Sunday evening as he floated between styling hair on models, sitting down for this interview then walking through choreography on stage. Appleton was in town to pass down the techniques behind his red carpet ready…
Book Excerpt: Demystifying Mussels with ‘The Pacific Northwest Seafood Cookbook’
In her first cookbook, Seattle magazine contributor Naomi Tomky proffers a complete guide to preparing—and understanding—the region’s bounty of fresh seafood
This article appears in print in the November 2019 issue. Click here to subscribe. Local food and travel writer Naomi Tomky’s work has been published in dozens of national magazines, but The Pacific Northwest Seafood Cookbook (November 5, The Countryman Press, $27.95) is her first foray into cookbook writing. In her signature relatable style, Tomky outlines everything there…
4 New Seattle-area Restaurants You Must Try in November 2019
In today’s dining scene, it’s hard to keep up with restaurant openings. But it’s our job (and our pleasure) to do just that. Here are a few new places worth checking out
This article appears in print in the November 2019 issue. Click here to subscribe. DochiChinatown–International DistrictSeattle’s love affair with doughnuts shows no sign of slowing, with the most recent example being a boom in mochi, or rice flour, doughnuts, which have a chewier texture than their cakey and yeasted counterparts. Grab these creative bubble-shaped rings at the Dochi…
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas’ ‘Carpe Fin’ Tells Its Story at Seattle Art Museum
Commissioned by SAM, the new piece is a 6-by-19-foot watercolor mural condensing a Haida folktale into one immense color-drenched panel
This article appears in print in the November 2019 issue. Click here to subscribe. Sensing an affinity between the iconography of his First Nation art tradition and the boldness and sweep of the Japanese film/graphic-novel visual style known as manga, Haida visual artist and British Columbia resident Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas combines the two—“committed to,” as he puts it,…
Sea-Tac Airport’s New Food Options Show off Local Flavors
A handy guide to navigating a newly redesigned Seattle-Tacoma International Airport—and all its new restaurants—like a Million Miler
This article appears in print in the November 2019 issue. Click here to subscribe. Smaller seats. Longer waits. Fewer freebies. Passenger flight is no longer the uplifting experience it was during aviation’s halcyon days in the 1960s. Airports, however, have never been better. While our own Seattle-Tacoma International Airport may not have the world’s largest indoor waterfall or…
Must List: Seattle Women’s Show, Bunka no Hi, ‘Beyond Bollywood’
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Love the Must List? Get it right in your inbox. Subscribe. MUST IMMERSE Beyond Bollywood: Indian Americans Shape the Nation (11/2-1/26/20) This exhibit, which amassed over a year of residency at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, explores the history of Indian-American immigrants and their ancestors. Supplemented by MOHAI’s Northwest-specific addition, the artifacts, photographs and…
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