Gastrolust

One hour. A flicker to some, forever to others. For us, a fantastic opportunity to get our juices flowing at Café Presse. The front room is fun, but we like the elbow room and more relaxed atmosphere of the tables in the back. We also appreciate the helpful and unrushed service. One hour is what [...]

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One of my goals for January is to organize all of my food photos for last year, cataloging them in some systematic way and blogging about miscellaneous bites that didn’t quite make it to “print” in 2008. In doing this, it’s reinforcing how much the recession is hitting the restaurant industry. Seems like there’s a [...]

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We love bones. And we’re here to give you some solid advice about where you indulge if you, too, are a bone-a-fide bone-lover. Crémant recently launched an “Egg-centric” brunch service (weekends, 10-3), and in addition to some good-looking egg and potato dishes (each month’s menu will feature different types of eggs from different farms), you [...]

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Rover’s invited Seattlest to join in its 21st anniversary celebration, which could have also been called a foie gras fest, if you look at the menu down below. Seriously: four foie gras dishes? No problem. We always love a foie gras and scallop combination, and the seared foie gras with baked peach and blackberry gastrique [...]

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