February 2013
Seattle’s Best Sipping Chocolate
We scoured the city for its best liquid indulgences: thick, rich, hot melted chocolate and milk.
ChocolatiCayenne Hot ChocolateIf you’d abandon subtlety and nuance in favor of a hot chocolate with eye-popping flavor, Chocolati’s flavored hot chocolate menu is for you. Try the cayenne, with big, hot high notes that hit your sinuses right as you sip, then mellow as you get farther into the cup. $2.95 for 8 ounces of…
Seattle’s Classic Chocolates
Tried-and-true favorites from longtime local chocolate makers.
DilettanteLet’s zoom out on this a bit: There’s a restaurant in Seattle’s Capitol Hill ’hood that makes almost a dozen versions of chocolate martinis ($10.50) any night of the week, and it’s busy—all the time. We haven’t flipped back to 1990; Dilettante Mocha Café is genuinely popular. Which means that no matter how much we…
ChefSteps: A Free Online Cooking School
A local team makes modern cuisine manageable.
When former Microsoftie Nathan Myhrvold’s six-volume, 2,438-page book, Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking, was released in 2011, it was deemed nothing short of a culinary revolution—and established Seattle’s reputation as a hotbed of molecular gastronomy. Now two of Myhrvold’s culinary cohorts—chef and principal coauthor Chris Young and food photographer Ryan Matthew Smith—have…
Locavore Love on Lummi Island
Take a culinary island adventure with help from the Willows Inn
WHY: For the Fish, Forage and Farm package at The Willows Inn on Lummi Island. On this culinary island adventure, you’ll harvest food and forage for wild produce, before joining sous-chef Ben Spiegel to prepare the bounty (Tue.–Wed., year-round. $1,000/person or $1,500/double occupancy, includes two nights in the seaside guesthouse and meals. 2579 West Shore…
Exploring Cute Kitsch and Beyond
The Nordic Heritage Museum asks if bad art might be good.
You’ve seen them in thrift shops or at your mormor’s house: thin, oval slabs of birch painted with simple, bucolic scenes. But what are they, exactly? Fine art? Folk art? Kitschy tourist trinkets? With Bad Art? 1,000 Birch Board Pictures from Sweden, the Nordic Heritage Museum explores the elusive line dividing good art from bad….
Studio Montagne’s Pop-up Valentine’s Day Shop
Find last-minute, lasting treats for your sweetheart.
Housed in the teeny Madrona storefront formerly occupied by Driftwood consignment boutique, the new Studio Montagne is a pop-up shop that pops up around holidays. Proprietor Anne Smith (who also works as creative director and visual merchandising manager at Filson) showcases a selection of accessories, home décor and “upcycled” vintage furniture, exquisitely curated to match…
Love is in the Air
Since the passage of R-74, this Valentine's Day feels especially worth celebrating.
With the historic passage of Referendum 74 in November and the flurry of same-sex weddings starting at midnight on December 9, we’ve been reveling in giddy expressions of marital joy nearly every day. From the steps of City Hall (where strangers turned out to shower newlyweds with rose petals, rice and warm wishes) to private…
The Square Knot Diner: Open All Night
All the usual “diner” associations apply when it comes to Georgetown’s Square Knot.
Friendly. Cheap. Efficient. No nonsense. Open all night. Decent food. All the usual “diner” associations apply when it comes to Georgetown’s Square Knot, opened by the owners of the 9lb Hammer next door (and connected via a hallway in the back; the Knot serves a full bar when the Hammer is open). With a handful…
Cook Your Own Healthy Dinner at Shabu Chic
This sleek spot offers a fashionable backdrop to the Japanese version of hot pot.
In Seattle’s Chinatown–International District, there is no shortage of hot pot, the Chinese fondue in which you cook presliced meats, seafood and/or veggies in a pot of boiling broth set in the middle of your table, customizing with hot sauce, or garlic or soy sauce as you choose. But until recently, the Japanese version, shabu…
Monte Cristo: Gourmet Grilled Cheese On-the-Go
Danielle Custer joins the mobile food movement with the yellow and white polka-dotted Monte Cristo.
Danielle Custer’s got food chops: She was chef at several area hotel restaurants before heading the culinary team at Taste at the Seattle Art Museum. Custer has now joined the mobile food movement with the yellow and white polka-dotted Monte Cristo, a gourmet grilled-cheese truck in which cinnamon toast is batter-dipped, griddled and layered with…
Sugar Coated: Previewing the February 2013 Issue
Editorial director Rachel Hart reflects on the bigger picture of our latest issue.
About a year ago, hereditary cholesterol issues started catching up with me and I gave up cheese, after my doctor told me, “It’s like pouring fat directly into your veins.” That pretty much took all the fun out of it (thanks, Marti!), though I still occasionally indulge in a few crackers full of my favorite…
A Treasure Trove in Ballard
A new vintage boutique offering fashion and home wares.
After years of thrift-shopping for personal wear and pleasure, vintage fans Sara Leonard and Cyrena Preszler, took the plunge into retail last October, opening Trove Vintage Boutique in Ballard. This treasure-filled shop, with walls of lemon yellow and white stripes, accented by robin’s egg blue, and lit by hanging Mason jar pendant lamps, is filled…
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