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by hillel on June 23rd, 2009 in Restaurants, Seattle, SeattlePI  —  2 Comments »

(This post is being simulcast on the Seattle PI and Tastingmenu. I encourage readers of each to check out the other. End of announcement.)
Small-ish cylinder of cake. Large-ish dollop of frosting. You’re talking cupcake my friend. And that’s my language.
I’ll admit to being turned off by the trendiness of cupcakes. In general when something becomes [...]

by hillel on June 16th, 2009 in Restaurants, Seattle, SeattlePI  —  1 Comment »

(This post is being simulcast on the Seattle PI and Tastingmenu. I encourage readers of each to check out the other. End of announcement.)
Some confessions up front. Two of my co-workers have basically moved into Volunteer Park Cafe. They work out of the cafe many days out of the week. This adorable little cafe located [...]

by hillel on June 9th, 2009 in Restaurants, Seattle, SeattlePI  —  3 Comments »

Seattle does not exactly have a thriving street food scene. Skillet recently got temporarily closed down, while Maximus Minimus is now open for business (the truck is shaped like a pig!!!). City regulations make it a difficult challenge (though I hear that may be changing). What many people don’t understand about quality street food (the [...]

by hillel on June 1st, 2009 in Restaurants, Seattle, SeattlePI  —  2 Comments »

Seattle is a funny place. Despite having a non-trivial Chinese population and an actual Chinatown (with an arch and everything) it’s got almost no superlative Chinese food. You may think that the odds of a town having good Italian food are greater than it having good Chinese food, but we come up mostly empty on [...]

by hillel on October 29th, 2008 in Restaurants, Seattle, Videos  —  6 Comments »

Communal hipster wannabe soba and Japanese appetizers. A decent clone of London’s Wagamama over. Another half decent video production.

by hillel on September 24th, 2008 in Restaurants, Seattle, Videos  —  No Comments »

From the people that brought you the Harvest Vine in Seattle, it’s Txori… trying to be an authentic tapas bar - replete with throwing your napkins on the floor. Check it.

And p.s. check out the new and improved Seattle Restaurant Guide.

by hillel on July 20th, 2008 in Restaurants, Seattle, Videos  —  5 Comments »

Joule, Seattle, Washington from tastingmenu on Vimeo.
OK all you armchair Spielbergs… This one’s a bit better. The audio is a little quiet but at least it’s understandable. Baby steps people. Baby steps. Also… I think it being shorter keeps it more focused. We’re learning, comments welcome.

by hillel on July 14th, 2008 in Restaurants, Seattle, Videos  —  8 Comments »

Our first restaurant review video. Poor production quality? Yes. Bad lighting? Check. Awful sound? Definitely. Good food… actually, yes.
Lark, Seattle, Washington from tastingmenu on Vimeo.
We’ll work on improving things in future videos.

by dana on June 7th, 2008 in Cooking, Dessert, Farmers Market Finales, Seattle, Veil  —  4 Comments »

I withstood the rain today, meandering through the University farmers market in desparate hopes of a sign of a coming summer, and found it in two baskets of strawberries and a pound of cherries. The first of the year!
The cherries aren’t great, and let me tell you they certainly weren’t cheap! And I’ll [...]

by dana on May 27th, 2008 in Dessert, Ingredients, Seattle, Veil  —  13 Comments »

In other parts of the world, fruit is in season. In places other than Seattle, pastry chefs are working with more than Rhubarb.

But no matter how many sunny Seattle weekends drive a burning desire to work with fruit, nothing but Rhubarb, which technically isn’t even a fruit, is available to me.
I know, I know. [...]

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