Seattle Mag
The Eastside: An Express Lane to the American Dream?
A new immigrant story is playing out in Bellevue, Kirkland and beyond.
A Seattle magazine collaboration with Crosscut.com The world has converged on the Eastside in the past 20 years, and, as usual, preening Seattleites are the last to know. Many (and I confess I’ve been one) still picture Bellevue and its neighbors as a nowheresville of bland, homogenous strip malls and cul-de-sacs—“a yuppie, upscale, white-bread suburb,”…
The Swans in Rehearsal
As Swan Lake prepares for takeoff at Pacific Northwest Ballet (4/12-4/21), the company is posting some rehearsal videos that are pretty irresistible—in large part because they offer a peek at backstage ballet fashion, which never fails to mesmerize. How do the dancers end up wearing such a colorful mishmash of leotards, tights, heat wraps, flouncy…
Best Wines of Washington’s Winegrowing Regions
COLUMBIA GORGEThe Columbia Gorge is a unique growing area, with about 500 acres planted in vinifera grapes. Steep cliffs above the Columbia River moderate the temperature, keeping vines from freezing in many places in winter and keeping the nights cool in the summer. Cool marine air rushes through the Gorge to meet the hot desert…
Cafe Munir’s Fatoush Salad
The chef/owner of Ballard's Cafe Munir shares a favorite recipe using sumac.
INGREDIENTS 1 large piece of stale Arabic bread (which you can purchase at Goodies, or substitute pita) 1 small green bell pepper 1 small cucumber 2–3 radishes 2 cups purslane or mâche loosely packed (romaine can be substituted) 4 green onions Few sprigs flat-leaf parsley and mint 2 medium tomatoes, cut in wedges Dressing 1/2…
Cooking with Sumac
At Cafe Munir, chef Rajah Gargour reaches for this zesty Middle Eastern spice every day.
Yes, sumac is a small tree. But that tree bears bright red berry-like fruit, which is crushed into coarse powder the color of brick. In this form, sumac is the paprika of Middle Eastern cooking. It’s an essential ingredient that chef Rajah Gargour relies on daily in the kitchen at Cafe Munir, the wildly flavorful…
Go Green (Eileen) in Columbia City on April 20
Green Eileen is open in Columbia City. The store, at 4860 Rainier Ave. S, is the company’s first outside of New York, where 90,000 pieces of gently worn Eileen Fisher clothing have been resold and $1.5 million donated to charities. The idea behind Green Eileen is brilliant: for every piece of almost-new Eileen Fisher clothing…
Joss Whedon’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ to Open SIFF 2013
There will be much ado, indeed, at SIFF (Seattle International Film Festival) this year. The festival opens with Joss Whedon’s take on Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, starring Alexis Denisof, Amy Acker, Nathan Fillion, and Clark Gregg. The film was shot in twelve days, uses the original text and apparently was edited on a laptop…
Take Me Out to Eat at the Mariners Game!
It’s the Seattle Mariners home opener! Hooray! While hardcore M’s fans like my husband are pumped about seeing the new players – how about The Beast? Slugger Michael Morse is on fire, right? – I’m psyched about all the new food and drinks showing up around The Safe, especially at Edgar’s Cantina and the Home…
Charming Brunch Options at Wandering Goose
Wandering Goose is a little slip of a place—and charming for it.
The charms of Heather Earnhardt’s Wandering Goose are many: church pews for banquettes, lampshades made of flour sacks, poppies blooming royal red on the walls. In a slice of space adjoining Ethan Stowell’s Rione XIII (and visible through a stretch of reclaimed windows), the former co-owner of Volunteer Park Café is making buttermilk biscuit sandwiches…
Tanglewood Supreme: Eclectic Seafood
Dim lighting and a throbbing soundtrack aren’t exactly what you expect to find in a restaurant on a Magnolia side street, but at owner Kent Chappelle’s Tanglewood Supreme, which opened in October, the mood is refreshingly grown-up. Local moms meet friends to sip martinis and share sweet potato arancine (fried risotto balls, $5) with kale,…
What’s New at Coastal Kitchen
This Capitol Hill staple closed and reopened with some improvements.
After Coastal Kitchen’s 20-year run as a beloved neighborhood staple, its owner, Jeremy Hardy, closed the old girl for a few months to give her a facelift, including, most noticeably, a new bar for cocktails; the original bar is now dedicated to oysters. There’s also new talent in the kitchen: Jason Jones, who once cooked…