Seattle Mag
Spiked Milkshakes, Capitol Hill Block Party and Other Weekend Musts
MUST VOTESeattle Mag’s Best of the NeighborhoodsSeattle is a city of buroughs to which residents can be passionately loyal. Thus, we’re taking a new approach to our annual “Best Of” readers’ choice poll this year: spotlighting your favorite restaurants, entertainment and other services in each neighborhood—and, at the risk of jamming our inbox with irate…
How to (Best) Shop the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale
Every year at the end of July, I start to wish for fall. (She ducks while summer-starved Seattleites throw shoes at the screen.) I dream of cozy sweaters, fall leaves and football, but the biggest reason I eagerly await autumn? I cannot wait to wear whatever I scored at the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale, that glorious…
Open Wide for Bite Of Seattle
It’s the 30th anniversary of Bite of Seattle (July 20-22, times vary. Free admission. Seattle Center) and for 30 years, food snobs have been pooh-poohing this egalitarian feast fest. Well, fine! Stay home with your truffle fries and sous vide steak. But you’re gonna miss out on some big fun. OK, so maybe this event has…
State of Shock
Knute Berger wonders what’s next for Seattle after a heartbreaking spate of bystander shootings.
Summer, in spirit if not via the weather, kicks off each year over Memorial Day weekend with the Northwest Folklife Festival at Seattle Center. This year, it sadly provided echoes of the sound too often heard on Seattle streets these days: gunfire. A bystander was caught in the crossfire of a shooting near the Space…
A Garden of Eating Blooms on Beacon Hill
Growing Beacon Hill’s new Food Forest will take a village—but it will also feed one.
Those Pink Lady apples you’re eyeing at the supermarket cost $2.49 a pound. A feather-light pint of organic raspberries? Five bucks. But at the new, 7-acre Beacon Hill Food Forest, these and other garden produce will be free (with a little sweat equity encouraged). Funded in part by the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods, and…
Enjoy Long Happy Hours at Saint John’s
The newest restaurant by the folks behind Queen Anne’s Solo bar has an airy, amiable atmosphere.
High Ceilings, Happy StaffThe room is comfortably spacious, with high ceilings dotted with elegantly artsy fixtures, and tables that easily shift to accommodate larger crowds. The serving staff is charming: Amiable folks such as Finn Von Claret and Vanessa Tiemann make one feel welcome while keeping the edibles and drinkables flowing, especially during the lengthy…
Indulge in Brunch at Fiddlehead
Sunlight pours through south-facing windows, bouncing off spring green accents in West Seattle’s homey new lunch spot. Opened in March by Carrie Duncan (maker of Alki Girl granola) and Dana Moreland, Fiddlehead attracts a mishmash of parents and tots, and small groups of elderly friends, gathering to lunch on a fine BLT made with thick-cut…
Give Branzino Another Chance
With Chef Garrett Michael Brown at the helm, the restaurant adds some nuance to the big-boned menu.
When Branzino opened in 2008 to much acclaim, its chef, Ashley Merriman, was clearly a star on the rise; she later went on to compete on Bravo’s Top Chef before moving to New York City, where she now heads the kitchen at Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter’s Waverly Inn. Her departure put Branzino on the…
Bitterroot Knows BBQ
Home of the best plate of ribs in Seattle
Montana may not be known for world-class barbecue, but that doesn’t mean Grant and Hannah Carter, who met in Big Sky Country in college, don’t know their ’cue. Boy, do they! Their slim restaurant—housed in Ballard’s old Acme Rubber Stamp building, its interior stripped back to expose old brick walls, with reclaimed barn wood—serves the…
Bainbridge’s Marché is Fine Dining with Small-Town Appeal
Greg Atkinson's splendid new eatery is well worth the boat ride
Congratulations: You’ve survived the punk rock era of food. In the decade just past, we saw the demise of the entrée; instead, we’ve pieced together meals by sharing a slew of side dishes and small plates (tapas of every ilk!). We bid adieu to careful, precise service and, instead, bussed our own tables or poured…
Ripe Melon with Prosciutto
Only during the very hottest days of summer is this fruit at its ripest.
Here in the Northwest, it’s rare to taste a perfectly ripe melon. Only during the very hottest days of summer is the fruit at its most sublime, its fragrance humid and thick in the air; tropical, seductive. For a few short weeks, farmers schlep fragile melons from their hot eastern gardens to our local farmers…
Sweet and Spicy Padrón Peppers
Top summer burgers with Lorna Yee’s sweet and spicy peppers.
What they are: Padrón peppers are small, green peppers with a sweet, mild flavor. Occasionally, the odd rogue pepper can grow particularly hot and spicy, making eating a dish of these peppers (often fried or roasted in olive oil) almost a game of Russian roulette. The peppers that grow later in the season, in August…