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Beverage Trend: Drinking Vinegars
Vinegar isn't just for salad dressings anymore
Pucker up for this year’s trendy summer sipper: drinking vinegar. Perhaps the inevitable extension of canning or pickling, nonalcoholic drinking vinegars (sometimes called shrubs) are made by preserving seasonal fruit in vinegar with a little sugar, and topping it off with soda water. At Bar Sajor in Pioneer Square (barsajor.com), chef de cuisine Edouardo Jordan’s…
The Life Aquatic
Join the fraternity of optimists with your very own Seattle swimming pool
While Seattle is not what you’d call a swimming pool kind of town (case in point: in mid-April, only nine active Seattle-area house listings on Redfin.com included pools versus 64 in Los Angeles), warmer weather has us dreaming of shimmering, turquoise pools just steps from the backdoor. View RidgeList Price: $950,000Square footage: 3,090; 4 bedrooms,…
Server Shout Out: Glo’s
Oh, boy. Snagging an open table at Glo’s felt a little like winning the breakfast lottery. The Capitol Hill diner is tiny and there’s almost always a line out the door brimming with hungover hipsters and senior citizens and everyone else in between willing to wait for one of the best damn morning meals in…
Tackling a Chicken Butchering Workshop
As artisanal farming becomes almost too precious, Joe Ray tackles a chicken butchering workshop
Holding the chicken by its wings, Riley Starks lifts the Rhode Island Red from its crate, confidently inverts the hen, places it between his thighs and slits its jugular with a thin blade. Not a feather ruffles; the bird never makes a peep. On this early fall day, free-ranging chickens cluck and crow at Nettles…
A Kale-Filled Buddha Bowl at Thrive
The older I get, the more I notice the correlation between what I eat and how I feel. Invigorated or sleepy, energized or comatose: I can usually predict the outcome of whatever I put in the tank. So, after a night of omnivorous indulgence (and maybe one too many drinks), I balance it out with…
Affordable Fare at Marination Ma Kai
Views, brews and affordable food on the waterfront: What’s not to like about the newest Marination location? Unlike its upscale neighbor to the south, Salty’s, Ma Kai has a workman-like dining room furnished with extra-long picnic tables and floor-to-ceiling windows. Or take a pint of Marination Brown Session Ale ($5) and perfectly moist cod in…
Restaurant Review: Pizzeria 22
Hidden Italian gem Pizzeria 22 cooks up Neapolitan pies in West Seattle
Cary Kemp learned to make pizza on Via Tribunali in Naples before launching the local Via Tribunali pizza chain in 2004. So, the guy knows his pizza. His Admiral District sliver of a pizzeria, which he opened in June 2011 and named after a hole-in-the-wall Naples pizza joint called Ventidue, is warm and neighborly with…
Designer Consignment: MB’s Finds
I don’t need to try to convince you to shop consignment. Either you do or you don’t. Personally, I love it, mostly because I can get high-quality goods for less money and currently I’m in a more-is-more phase of wardrobe building. Which is why I’m excited to check out Mary-Bridget Pehl’s online consignment shop, MB’s…
Restaurant Review: Agrodolce
New Italian fare in Fremont
The potted tree, lit with hundreds of the tiniest white lights, still anchors the sunny Fremont dining room that once housed 35th Street Bistro (and before that, the inimitable Still Life Café). But there’s a loungier effect to Agrodolce, Maria Hines’ (Tilth, Golden Beetle) latest, opened in December. Especially after dark, when chandeliers cast a…
Spring Health Roundup: New Issue Plus More Health News
The Spring/Summer issue of Seattle Health is here! Check out the digital edition to read about weight management for better health, new oral treatments for MS and new research on early addiction intervention—plus local companies that are making doctor consultations easier than ever, allergists’ most unusual patient cases, and much more. Meanwhile, we’ve got awards…
Let Us Farm Grows Organic Greens
Let Us Farm Grows delicious organic greens to prove a point
The roots of Let Us Farm, Cecelia Boulais and Steve Hallstrom’s veggie haven outside of Oakville, stretch back to an unexpected source: the state’s Growth Management Act of 1990. The avid gardeners and nature lovers living outside Carnation were incensed by what they saw as new rules that squeezed out small-scale farming in favor of…