super excited for this place to open next week: 
fabulous name, a space with good juju (the old sitka and spruce), and a quirky, delicious sounding menu (think lemongrass elk meat balls, fried scallion tofu sandwich, and daily fried rice). matt dillon’s a partner but christina choi (formerly of s & s) is chef. it’ll be lunch and brunch at first, with dinner to follow. count me in.
oh, delancey. the hype, the press, the blogging, the lines out the door. all for pizza.
which makes sense if it’s great pizza. well, it is.
going out for pizza tends to be a casual experience, one that is more about socializing than discussing the food. it’s inherently sharable, something that can sit in the middle of [...]
don’t worry, my blog isn’t going to start to be about all the beautiful things i can cook. mostly because i don’t cook very many beautiful things. after all, i own one (dull) knife that is not a butter knife, one saucepan (and no other kinds of pans), and forget to use my new kitchen [...]
it may have been a year ago when i first heard about emmer and rye (then just called “emmer”, i believe). chef seth caswell, of stumbling goat fame, has been navigating the usual hurdles of opening a restaurant – finding a space, keeping investors, collaborating with a bartender. his hard work led him to struggling [...]
as diners become less willing to splurge, more attuned to bargains, and happier to stay home for meals and go out for coffee, restaurants have adjusted. one happy result – the all-day restaurant.
there’s café presse, with eggs and frites from 7 am until 2 am, and oddfellows, from 8 am to 2 am. [...]
it’s one of the most interesting and lovely restaurant interiors in the city. the space is hip and elegant, stylish and classy, with assertive wall paper, high ceilings, and cement as a decorative feature. but classiness is only fun for so long. especially when the goal is salty, filling late night food for cheap. and [...]
i know i’ve raved about joule here before, but having recently been back, i feel the need to do it again. oh, and chefs rachel and seif were on iron chef the other day.
i feel inspired when i’m at joule, excited when i look at the menu. parsnip, white miso, and pickled apple? prawn, [...]
in the many months i’ve been hearing about mistral kitchen, the new project of william belickis, chef owner of now-closed mistral, i’ve become more and more confused as to what the place is about. there was going to be a woodfire oven imported from naples, i was told, as well as a chef’s table, a [...]
it’s only the size of the walk-in closet i someday hope to have (big for a closet, to be sure, but not for a store). blackbird candy shoppe is charmingly hipster, with walls as black as the clerk’s thick glasses.
unlike a clothing store (the candy shoppe’s sibling is the blackbird clothing store next door), a [...]
it was a couple weeks ago that i saw thomas keller at bastille. i didn’t attend the (pricey) cooks and books dinner he hosted (but didn’t cook), but i did go all the way to ballard for the media event beforehand. i wasn’t especially familiar with media events, but it turns out i like them [...]