Seattle Mag
How to Season a Cast Iron Skillet
Take care of #1 pan!
(heat, fat, smoke, cool) Gentlemen, turn on your fans. Everything you’ve been taught about smoking fat needs to go right out the window. Steve powers through the step-by-step on this baby. You’ll never wonder how to do this again. Printable instructions? Click here. Cookus Interruptus is devoted to educating viewers about how to cook…
What’s Next for the Seattle Waterfront? Get a Preview at a Public Meeting Thursday Night
The event will feature a preview of proposed design plans, plus food (to buy) and live music
While politicians, judges and activists argue over all things tunnel, planners are busily imagining what a post-Viaduct Seattle waterfront will look like. Thursday, at the Bell Harbor Conference Center (2211 Alaskan Way, Seattle), design project lead James Cornwaterfer will present the “first design directions,” which I take to mean “rough draft.” The public meeting, hosted by the City…
Sneak Peek: Skillet Goes Brick and Mortar with Its New Capitol Hill Restaurant
Street food comes in from the cold on Capitol Hill
Joshua Henderson opened Skillet, his mobile street food truck, in 2007 after figuring out that he didn’t like working in restaurants. He just wanted to focus on the food: making it good and bringing it to the masses without all the fuss and ritual of creating an “experience.” Now, four years later, after amassing a…
Outdoors: Whistler Mountain Bike Park Opens Friday
This coming Friday marks the opening of mountain bike season at Whistler. The resort will open its eight signature biking trails, with the early season conditions best for intermediate and advanced riders. The Bike Park is open daily from 10am to 5pm until June 17 and then from 10am to 8pm starting June 18 through to…
Local 360 is Best During the Day
The goal of regional sourcing is eminently admirable, the food only occasionally so
We’ve all eaten at a hole-in-the-wall where, if it weren’t for food so good we crave it in our dreams, we wouldn’t set foot in the place. Local 360 is the opposite. Open all day, the combination restaurant and local goods market debuted in January in the old Flying Fish space, which owner Marcus Charles…
Restaurant Review: Blackboard Bistro
Romantic appeal but an uneven menu at this new West Seattle spot
Almost a year ago, Jacob Wiegner left Spanish-romantic Olivar on Capitol Hill to open his own place in a revolving-door storefront at the West Seattle Junction (in four years it’s been five different restaurants). But let’s hope, for the sake of gnocchi, this one sticks. Wiegner’s potato pasta puffs are lovely—fluffy, light and seared on…
Food News: Travelers to Bring Indian Home Cooking to Beacon Hill
Indian food is beyond scarce in the south end, but that’s about to change. Travelers, the friendly, soothing Indian decor, jewelry, clothing, etc store on Pine Street, is opening a full service restaurant on the north end of Beacon Hill in the can’t-miss-it purple house that housed Culinary Communion and the short-lived Tasha’s Bistro. I’m told…
Kelly Singer’s Tips on How to Rock Your Next Marathon
Foam rolling is one of the most important parts of your marathon training. Kelly tells you why and
It’s marathon season. And if you’re one of the many Seattleites training and prepping for your next race, Kelly Singer the scoop on to get into gear. The third annual Seattle “Rock & Roll” marathon is just six weeks out. The famed band-lined streets, flat waterfront course, and excited spectators have Seattleites out training for…
Bicycle Diaries: Essentials for Bike Commuting
In this series we ask Todd Sheer for some tips and tricks for making bike commuting a little easier.
Here are Greg’s “essentials” for bike commuting: “I was thinking about some of the “essentials” for bike commuting. It’s easy to find the list of the best lights or the best jacket or the easiest panniers, but here are some of my tricks for making bike commuting routine a little easier (or I should say…
Bicycle Diaries: Shopping for Groceries on Your Bike
In this series we ask Roddy Sheer for some tips and tricks for making bike commuting a little easier
As part of my ongoing series this month on urban bike commuting, I have pledged to do all my grocery shopping by bicycle. With a couple of tester panniers from Seattle-based Detours to help distribute my load, I am ready to roll. Last week on my initial bicycle grocery run to a Safeway a mile…
Bako, A Modern Cantonese Restaurant, Coming to Broadway in October
The Jade Pagoda, the long-lived but eminently cheesy Chinese place that lived on Broadway until it was shuttered a few years ago, was never about the food. No, it was the kitschy digs, the waiters dressed up in shoddy sailor suits, the bad (but strong!) cocktails that called to us…it was an experience. And the food was about as…
Fashion Friday: Seamless in Seattle live presentations, new swimwear + Pariscope Studios’ trunk sale
Check out Pariscope’s funky, handmade jewels at their open house sale this weekend
Good morning! I’m spending this (sunny) day sitting on the judging panel for our annual Seamless in Seattle competition, and I can’t wait to see what our 12 finalists have brought for show and tell. Follow me on Twitter for the inside scoop (and some great fashion) today. And don’t forget to vote for your…