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Free Fries Are Back At Pike Street Fish Fry

Friday, October 15: $2 pints and $0 frites on Capitol Hill.

Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Oct 12, 2010 at 01:22PM 0 Comments

Pike Street Fish Fry—where you can get free French fries this Friday, October 15 from 5 to 7pm.

Every third Friday of the month from 5 to 7pm, Pike Street Fish Fry gives away French fries and charges $2 for a pint of beer from New Belgium Brewing.

And every lunar cycle we remind you of this momentous event. Because we love you, and we need to let you know what kind of New Belgium beer you’ll be drinking. This Friday, October 15 it is New Belgium’s Hoptober Golden Ale.

You can also get the free fries at nearby Moe Bar, where you’ll have a better chance of sitting down to eat them. Maybe. But the Hoptober there will cost you $3. What a rip off! Just kidding, it sounds awesome.

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Tags: Capitol Hill, Beer, Free Food, French Fries

Bastille Day Three Ways

No, silly. Not those kind of three ways! We mean three ways to celebrate the birth of La Republique on July 14.

Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Jul 08, 2010 at 09:29AM 0 Comments

You can celebrate Bastille Day at the aptly named Bastille in Ballard, over five courses at Campagne, or at a Post Alley street party hosted by Cafe Campagne.

Ballard’s Bastille seems like a pretty obvious choice for celebrating Bastille Day, but the classic Seattle go-tos on July 14 are actually Cafe Campagne and Campagne (both in Pike Place Market).

In any case, all three French restaurants have planned festivities to celebrate the birth of the modern nation-state, here are the details.

Bastille’s festivities begin at 4:30pm on that sassy little patio around the side of the restaurant. Chef Shannon Galusha will serve you a platter of oysters or charcuterie for $5. A glass of wine is also $5, beer is $3. Live entertainment begins at 6pm with the Djangomatics, a “gypsy jazz” band. The second act, cabaret band Rouge, will entertain in the back bar from 9:30pm onward. After that it is burlesque until midnight.

Meanwhile, Downtown, Campagne is doing a 5-course meal for $50. Service starts at 5pm and reservations are encouraged. The menu is: coddled Duck Egg with grapeseed oil and maple syrup, pork confit canneloni with English pea foam, warm cucumber soup, truffled free-range chicken, and waffles with fresh strawberries for dessert.

Downstairs, casual counterpart Cafe Campagne is closing off Post Alley and serving snacks, wine, and beer beginning at 3pm. The offerings start at $5 and include grilled sausage sandwiches, baguette sandwiches, tartes flambées, and my very favorite CC menu item: frites with garlicky aioli.

Djangomatics, sly devils that they are, have double-booked on Bastille Day: they’re playing at the Post Alley party as well as at Bastille. There are three other musical acts on the roster and, as at la boum en Ballard, this party concludes with a burlesque show.

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Tags: Holiday Events, Special Dinners, Food Events and Festivals, Bastille Day, Campagne, French Fries, Francophilia