Gastrolust

Obviously, I’m brutally backed up (aside from my Sound/City Arts reports) on my restaurant write-ups. So let’s start with a morning meal. Over the summer (remember summer?), I returned to Fresh Bistro (having previously discussed their brulee, bellies and beets) to sample a few of the brunch offerings, to which I’d say: two out three [...]

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“Yeah, right.”
That’s what I said when I heard that Dahlia Lounge was cooking up congee for brunch.
Monkey bread? Makes sense. Eggs Benedict? Elegant. But congee? Can it be any good?
In a word: Yes. I often complain about the quality of Chinese food in Seattle, so it’s sort of strange that Chef Tom Douglas is the [...]

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Thierry Rautureau, the Chef in the Hat, is seemingly everywhere in the local food scene. When he’s not cooking up a storm in his own kitchen, he’s out collaborating with other chefs or dining at other restaurants, supporting the industry as a whole. This is why I called him a cheerleader after enjoying a dinner [...]

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Olivar’s been getting rave reviews since opening in the Loveless building on Capitol Hill, and starting today, they’re introducing brunch service that looks to be a winner.
No batter dishes here; Chef Phillippe Thomelin is doing the egg, cheese, potato and bacon thing with his uniquely Spanish flair (with French and Italian influences thrown in for [...]

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Looking beyond French toast for the city’s best brunch
In his gritty Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain describes brunch as “punishment block for the ‘B’-Team cooks” who salvage “old, nasty odds and ends” to create dishes that sometimes include hollandaise, which he warns “is a veritable petri-dish of biohazards.”
For this month’s Dish-Off, I set off to four [...]

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