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No Monday blues for me this week. I'm quitting on the early side tomorrow to drive out to Woodinville's Purple Café & Wine Bar to get the week off to a rosier start.
September 7, 2008
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Pino Rogano has just moved da Pino, his tiny meat shop and cafe, from the Rainier Valley to Ravenna. It's a good move.
September 5, 2008
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Ever wondered what it's like to eat like a Rawist? Cafe Flora, Seattle's favorite vegetarian restaurant, is taking its wholesome M.O. to the next level with a three-course raw food market menu that will be available every night until Sept. 11.
September 3, 2008
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The buzz surrounding the opening of Spinasse, a tiny, homey artisan pasta joint in the former Globe space, is all over a guy whose closest thing to his own restaurant has until now been a few steel poles holding up a canvas canopy at the Ballard Farmers Market.
September 2, 2008
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If you're going to be at Bumbershoot this weekend, there's finally something a lot more interesting on the food front than roasted corn and funnel cake.
August 29, 2008
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Say hello to a plucky little entourage of finger foods that's about to debut on the menu at La Casa del Mojito, the cheery Caribbean restaurant with outposts on both Lake City Way and University Way.
August 28, 2008
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If Macrina is on your list of errands this week, today is the day to do it. To celebrate their 15th birthday they're handing out a free brown sugar shortbread cookie to everyone who walks in the door.
August 27, 2008
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The bakery and its cuddly wooden honey bear statue are being shuffled out in favor of a full service restaurant called Vios, with an expected opening around Thanksgiving.
August 26, 2008
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In the Tale of Tsar Saltan by Alexander Pushkin, a banished prince discovers that the swan he saved from a raptor while in exile is actually a beautiful princess. An ornate mural by Russian artist V. Shkurkin that pays tribute to the 1831 story decorates one interior wall of the historic Loveless Building, a perpetually cursed restaurant space on Capitol Hill. The restaurant has most recently fallen into the hands of French chef Phillipe Thomelin. Convinced that the so-called curse is the stuff of fairy tales, Thomelin opened his restaurant, Olivar, at 806 E. Roy St., about a month ago.
August 25, 2008
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They got us into all this trouble, and now they're saying they'll get us out of it.
If you look around, I'm sure you might notice that quite a few of your favorite watering holes are trying to lure you back into their clutches the next morning with promises of brilliant Bloody Marys and killer hangover breakfasts to numb the pain of the alcoholic lashes you were gladly bending over for the night before.
August 24, 2008