Gastrolust

This was a big deal. We usually go out for so-called “exotic” food like bugs, tripe, and chicken liver mousse popsicles (dipped in dark chocolate), but for a belated birthday dinner, we wanted to check out the fuss about Cascina Spinasse.
We rarely go out for Italian food, opting instead to make it at [...]

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Actually, it’s not such a secret, as ramen regulars will testify. If you’re looking for some of the best shoyu (soy sauce-based) ramen in Seattle, you must get to Tsukushinbo early for Friday lunch.
Friday’s the only day of the week they prepare the broth necessary for ramen, and they only make enough [...]

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You know the classics: One Hundred Spears of Solitude, Alice in Wonderbread, The World According to Carp.
Hold on a second. Did you read that right?
Consider this your two-month advanced notification. April 4 is the next go-around of the Seattle Edible Book Festival, part of an international celebration that happens, appropriately, around [...]

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After our unfortunate Bourdain/Bizarre-Foods-like bug-eating bungle, we were determined to go back to Federal Way (known to some as South Korea, who refer to Edmonds/Lynnwood/Shoreline as North Korea) for a more satisfying Korean food experience. Friends recently told us about eating naeng-myeon. So, noodleheads that we are, we had a hankering [...]

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When I was moving to Seattle from Vermont ten years ago, I bought my current condo sight unseen. One of the few conditions: I needed to be in walking distance of Trader Joe’s.
I don’t shop there as much as I did in the past, but it’s incredibly convenient to run there when I need last-minute [...]

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We’d been hearing a lot about the new KFC (Korean fried chicken), so we took a drive down to Federal Way (with its little Koreatown) to sample some at Cockatoo’s Chicken Restaurant—a place that, once you find it, is basically a bar with a snack menu.
You might think we were drunk, but [...]

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Whew! Aside from a few Asian restaurants to write about, this should just about finish all of my 2008 restaurant reports. And what better way to finish than with some sweet treats?
For breakfast or just about anytime, a Top Pot doughnut hits the spot. The 5th Avenue location is fun for hanging out, though I [...]

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One of the reasons I moved to the Seattle ten years ago was to enjoy the bounty of food I can find in the Pacific Northwest, including the seafood. Now that I’m racing around to so many restaurants in the area, I’m constantly eating crab, halibut and salmon, but find myself yearning for more variety [...]

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Sound’s Search for a Fruitful Meal
Ready or not here I come
Gee that used to be such fun
Apples peaches pumpkin pie…
Following a “Rock ‘n’ Roll” theme to end last year’s Dish-Off competitions, here I come with more music themes in 2009. Each month, I’ll challenge restaurants to create a multi-course meal based on a food-related song [...]

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