Other Issues:
UpfrontThe RE Store’s Eighth Annual Haute Trash Fashion Show on April 17 In honor of National Poetry Month—and our annual Best Restaurants issue—three prominent local poets (with three of the most poetically pleasing last names in the biz) cooked up new poems about food. Bon appétit! A local coffeehouse maven takes her offerings up a notch with High 5 Pies
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Sally Chamberlain
Seattle chocolatier Fran Bigelow celebrates a new store and her connection to President Obama
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Beth Witham
How have Seattle’s longstanding restaurants survived? Perpetually popular menu items.
By
Ellen Pepin
Cherry-picked boots for the young set, heirloom chocolate at Claudio Corallo and gourmet food on Phinney With new eateries popping up left and right, Capitol Hill’s East Pike Street is Seattle’s foodie hot spot
By
Sally Chamberlain
When two local chefs designed their dream kitchen, the results really got cooking
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Elizabeth Economou
Consumers are taking the local food movement one step further by going whole hog—or cow or sheep for that matter
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Bob Geballe
With more than one scary breach in our food safety net, just who is minding our local restaurant kitchens?
By
Bob Geballe
Our contemporary issues with the waterfront and Alaskan Way Viaduct stem from decisions made almost eight decades ago. Leaders then, as now, struggled with engineering quandaries, a lack of consensus—and limited funds
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Jennifer Ott
ColumnistsEating locally isn't new in Seattle; the current trend is just bringing us back to our roots (and berries)
By
Knute Berger
DatebookA young Seattle filmmaker helps his peers achieve their Hollywood dreams |
Best Restaurants 2009From Spinasse to The Corson Building, a look at the reservation-worthy in Seattle restaurants of 2009 This year we look back at the exceptional restaurants that have beaten the odds; the ones we fall in love with again and again, year after year We can’t wait to see how these new kitchens fare Call them bold, call them brilliant, call them presumptuous. But when you’re looking for the chefs who are creating the new taste of Seattle, you’ll have to call on these six. When your wife is Seattle magazine’s food and dining editor, dinner is never quite what you’ve got in mind Buoyed by new Washington craft-distillery laws, a crop of locally made liquors is lifting spirits everywhere FeaturesEat and DrinkA new menu from the chef of Brasa brings Elliott Bay Book Company’s café back to life Popeye knew spinach was good for you—but did he also know how good it can taste? Celebrate spring by savoring this versatile vegetable.
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Ellen Pepin
This versatile grain will have you making good on those resolutions to eat healthier |


