restaurants
Saturday, February 12th, 2005
Someone once told me that New Year’s Eve is for amateurs; it’s the one night where all the people who don’t normally go out to bars, go out to bars. This is how I feel about Valentine’s Day. It’s when people who normally don’t go out to restaurants decide to dine out and splurge. The […]
Wednesday, February 9th, 2005
To celebrate Chinese new year, I took Zach out for hot-pot. We were both excited because neither of us had ever tried hot-pot before; my family is Cantonese so we don’t eat much Szechuan cooking (and if we do, we don’t tell my grandma). A friend of mine told me about a place on 12th […]
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005
Just a heads up that the next 25 for $25 dine out promotion starts March 1st, so plan accordingly. It looks like details on the 25 participating restaurants and menus will be posted on the 18th at nwsource.com. I’ve taken advantage of several of these promotions over the years and I’ve found that it’s really […]
Sunday, January 30th, 2005
We were looking for a cheap, diner-style, dive breakfast this morning and I was really missing Twin Teepees, which burned down for the umpteenth time in 2000 and was finally bull-dozed in 2001. As a less than perfect substitute, we headed downtown to Diner, which fits the bill of a cheap, dive and dinner on […]
Sunday, January 30th, 2005
I’ve decided that date night doesn’t necessarily have to involve a new restaurant every time, so I have now expanded it to include restaurants that I haven’t been to in a while. So tonight we went out to Agua Verde. I really like Agua Verde, especially on sunny days when you can sit outside on […]
Saturday, January 22nd, 2005
By our fourth day in Vancouver we were actually getting a little tired of eating out. We agreed to forgo The List and drive somewhere outside of downtown. We consulted the hotel guidebook and decided on Deep Cove because it promised a “cozy little seaside town” with “lots of great cafes”. We took the “scenic […]
Thursday, January 20th, 2005
The Vancouver eating trip begins! We left Seattle fairly early and there was no traffic at all so we arrived at our hotel, the Vancouver Marriott Pinnacle*, too early to check in. We had some time to kill and were hungry so we consulted The List for something nearby. We walked up to Denman in […]
Wednesday, January 19th, 2005
I leave for Vancouver tomorrow and I can’t wait! After weeks of research, I narrowed down my restaurant list to 38 places—which means I need to average 7.6 restaurants a day in order to try them all. A second (and third) trip may be in order.
Monday, January 17th, 2005
I just received the latest Saveur, which was a special issue with their top 100 favorite “foods, restaurants, recipes, people, places & things”. This is what caught my eye: #1 Apparently, cooking in the fireplace is the new hot thing—although, this is most certainly not going to happen in my apartment #4 Pepperidge Farm Bread—I’ve […]
Friday, January 14th, 2005
Zach and I wanted a quick and relatively cheap meal, so took me to Jamjuree for dinner. I had never been before, but I had walked by the place and thought it looked too fancy to be a good thai place. The restaurant has nice, dim lighting, rich colors and fabrics on the walls and […]