Seattle Mag
The Best Meals We Ate All Year
Seattle magazine editors reflect on their favorite meals enjoyed in 2012.
It goes without saying that the best meals of the year aren’t just about what was eaten. That’s important, no doubt. But great food doesn’t equal a great meal. What makes a meal is having good food, good atmosphere, good service plus the presence of best sort of company. People you adore. A great meal…
UPDATED: Procrastinator’s Guide To New Year’s Eve Celebrations
What are you doing New Year’s Eve? Still don’t know? Well, you’re in good company. I’m one of those adrenalin junkies who likes to wing it on big going-out-on-the-town type holidays. So what if most of the tables at those special dinners listed below have already been booked up? If you’ve got a honey who’s…
Where to Drink with Relatives This Holiday Season
Alongside presents, mistletoe, getting a few days off work, and the bottles Santa might put in your stocking, the finest part of the holidays is getting to catch up with family. And, of course, the best place to catch up is a great bar. However, it can be a challenge to pick a suitable watering…
Agrodolce Now Open; Try The Pasta!
Maria Hines' latest restaurant is serving up great pasta in Fremont.
I woke up hungry at 5:34 this morning, but instead of being annoyed by the Dark O’Clock beginning of my day, I replayed the sweet, sweet dream that stirred me from slumber. There was a pile of perfectly lovely pasta on my brain. Since supping at a hosted, soft opening dinner earlier this week at…
Candlelight Vigil for Sandy Hook Victims at Alki
A candlelight vigil will be held in West Seattle this weekend to honor the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting in Newtown, CT, according to the West Seattle Herald. Speakers will include violence survivors, including Snohomish County Prosecutor Mark Roe, board members of Families & Friends of Violent Crime Victims organization and executive director…
It’s Good to Be Bad: Best Villains in Seattle Theater This Year
Trending in Seattle theater in 2012: “Bad guys” played so well, we had to love them.
Trending in Seattle theater in 2012: “Bad guys” played so well, we had to love them. But just how “bad” were they?A totally subjective rating system:1 star = Trickster. Buries your keys to teach you a lesson.2 stars = Morally questionable. You hide their Facebook posts.3 stars = Despicable. Deplorable. Below-par hygiene.4 stars = Haunts…
Drink Eggnog, Root for the Seahawks and Other Weekend Musts
MUST TASTEHomemade eggnog Monday (12/24–12/25) — It’s become a holiday ritual for Sun Liquor bartender Erik Chapman, who mixes up a batch of irresistible homemade eggnog to serve to customers on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. It makes for a perfect family bonding strategy…or a way to escape the relatives. Either way, Cheers!Nog starts flowing…
Holiday Sale & Good Times event at Underwood Stables
Here’s a cool thing going on this week in the holiday shopping scene: Underwood Stables (formerly known as Horses Cut Shop) at 4306 Fremont Avenue N (next door to Uneeda Burger) is opening up their (formerly super secret) space for two sales this pre-Christmas week. Thursday to Sunday, from noon to 7 p.m., shop men’s and…
The People Have Spoken: Locals’ Favorite Bars and Cocktails
It’s that time of year, when pundits of all disciplines, from movies to books to boozes, are making their picks for those “Best” and “Most” end-of-year lists. I thought it’d be a good balance to let the people have their own say. So I asked five folks about their favorite cocktails and watering holes. Here’s…
Architect Leah Martin’s Great Suburban Infill Remodel
A Kirkland waterfront home that fits in with its neighbors
It seems counterintuitive, but restriction is often an architect’s ally. While, surprisingly, bottomless budgets and acreage frequently lead to design flops, tight budgets and spaces, or other apparent limitations, often are the sparks for aesthetic inspiration. Such was the case for Leah Martin, owner of Seattle’s Verge Architecture & Design, when, in 2008, she…
How to Bring the Classic Cocktail Lounge Look to Your Home
Speakeasy-inspired furnishings bring that classic cocktail style
There’s something deliciously secretive and sexy about speakeasies—those Prohibition-era liquor establishments that illegally catered to the 1920s and ’30s up-market, underground cocktailing crowd. Step into Seattle’s Canon Whiskey & Bitters Emporium (First Hill, 928 12th Ave.; 206.552.9755; canonseattle.com) and you’ll feel magically transported to a gloriously Gatsby-esque, swank urban saloon. Named “Canon” in reference to…
Shopping Made Easy in Japantown
For the quirky and artistic on your holiday gift list, check out Momo in the Japantown corner of Chinatown-International District. Momo owner—and former Seattle magazine shopping writer—Lei Ann Shiramizu, purveys funky Asian-European apparel and accessories with potential finds including handmade bags from Japanese brand Maruka, constructed from vintage kimono fabric wrapped around a metal frame…