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Neighborhood Food News: Poquitos’ New Custom Beer, a Bigger, Better Queen Anne Farmers Market, and a Sequel to Modernist Cuisine?

Plus: free ice cream, canned tomatoes, and a tequila festival.

Posted by: Brandon L. Bye on May 09, 2012 at 11:00AM 2 Comments

Double scoop at Full Tilt. Photo via Facebook.

BELLEVUE
Eater reports, Nathan Myhrvold and the top-flight culinary team responsible for the much-lauded opus on the science of food and cooking, Modernist Cuisine, are currently working on a sequel.

CAPITOL HILL
Poquitos is the latest restaurant to have its own custom-brewed house beer; the Hombre Mexican Lager, brewed by neighbor Elysian, first started pouring on Cinco de Mayo. It’s actually a Vienna-style lager, a style ironically now associated with Mexico, thanks to Austrian brewers who emigrated there. Put away the IPAs with the winter sweaters; it’s finally time for lager and linen.

MULTIPLE LOCATIONS
Full Tilt Ice Cream will be offering free ice cream (up to a $10 value) to anyone paying with LevelUp, the new pay-with-your-phone app, Friday, May 11. This deal is available at the Ballard, White Center, and U-District locations.

NAPLES, ITALY TO SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
Tutta Bella Neapolitan Pizzeria introduces its own private-label canned tomatoes. The 6-pound, 9-ounce cans ($10) are available in all locations, so customers can enjoy at home the central ingredient in Tutta Bella’s fine pies.

PHINNEY RIDGE
The Northwest Tequila Fest is coming to the Phinney Neighborhood Center on August 18. Tequila tastes, Mexican food, and cocktail contests will win the day. Phinneywood reports, tickets sales start in June. The cost of the event has not been set.

QUEEN ANNE
The Queen Anne farmers market returns June 7, and the number of vendors has grown from an average of 32 vendors in 2011 to 50 this year, reports Queen Anne View. Notable newcomers include Among other familiar vendors, crowd-pleaser Rachel’s Ginger Beer is set to return. And some new faces will peddle their wares, too. Market hours run on Thursdays from 3 to 7:30.

WOODINVILLE
On Saturday, May 19, Woodinville Whiskey Co. will celebrate the unveiling of its signature bourbon whiskey, Mash Bill No. 9. – the newest addition to the company’s microbarreled collection. As part of the celebration, complimentary whiskey-infused pulled pork sandwiches will be available for the first 200 people that purchase a bottle of the newly released bourbon. These events are massively popular. Get there early.

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Tags: Full Tilt, Woodinville Whiskey Co., Poquitos, Tutta Bella

Seattle Is Sweet on Momofuku Milk Bar

Christina Tosi’s cerealcentric treats are inspiring some seriously tempting local desserts.

Posted by: Allecia Vermillion on Apr 17, 2012 at 11:30AM 2 Comments

The Wurst Place’s caramelized cornflake cookie with marshmallows and chocolate. Photo via Facebook.

Momofuku Milk Bar, David Chang’s sweets enterprise led by chef Christina Tosi, has a lot of fans. And while the Milk Bar’s five locations are all in Manhattan or Brooklyn, Tosi’s talents with all things sweet (and her clever cookbook) have inspired chefs and food geeks around Seattle.

Tosi is known for incorporating cereal into her desserts and enshrining in glass bottles the sweetened milk that remains after polishing off a bowl. Here are three local establishments taking inspiration from Tosi and her Milk Bar creations.

Americana
After taking over Table 219, his longtime employer, and developing a new name and menu, chef Jeffrey Wilson began creating ice cream tributes to Tosi and her empire. Wilson’s rotating milkshake selection has included Cap’n Crunch and Froot Loop versions; he recently ran a version made with Cinnamon Toast Crunch. But apparently the Capitol Hill crowd likes booze better than cereal: Wilson reports that his bourbon-maple and Vivace liqueur milkshakes are his most popular.

Full Tilt Ice Cream
Back in January, owner Justin Cline told us he was working on a new caramelized-cornflake flavor inspired by Momofuku. Since then he has expanded his cereal-focused repertoire, making batches flavored with chocolate covered Cap’n Crunch Crunch Berries, Froot Loops, and one made with Grape-Nuts that he swears has been the best one of all. These flavors are part of the rotating cast at Full Tilt’s four locations.

The Wurst Place
This relative newcomer in South Lake Union is known mostly for exotic sausages, beers, and Belgian-style frites. But even this bastion of meatiness isn’t impervious to the charms of Milk Bar recipes; the Wurst Place is now baking banana oatmeal bacon cookies, as well as another number stuffed with chocolate chips, caramelized corn flakes, and marshmallows.

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Tags: Desserts, Full Tilt, The Wurst Place, On the Menu, Americana

Neighborhood Food News: Full Tilt Gains an Ice Cream Lab, Trophy Cupcakes Delivers

Plus: Met Market gets in the Valentine’s spirit, Tom Douglas Wants to Send You to Hawaii, Wild Ginger riffs on the Gauguin exhibit, and more.

Posted by: Anne Larkin on Feb 08, 2012 at 10:30AM 0 Comments

Trophy Cupcakes now delivers. Photo courtesy their website.

BELLEVUE
John Howie is getting in on the Sunday supper trend. These new weekly meals will be sized for four and, of course, centered on a shared steak.

CAPITOL HILL
Eater Seattle reports that tonight at Bako there will be both free snacks and fashion. It’s a Wednesday night grab-bag of an event: a DJ, a fashion show, vodka drinks, and $5 Bako gift cards.

DOWNTOWN
Another downtown restaurant is finding menu inspiration at the Seattle Art Museum. Wild Ginger is creating a menu inspired by Gauguin’s Polynesia, on exhibit at SAM through April 29. The menu will be available tomorrow, but here’s a teaser: twice-cooked Indonesian wings, first simmered in a myriad of Southeast Asian spices, then fried and coated in hoisin barbeque sauce. Even better, these dishes are accompanied by a new tropical cocktail.

GREEN LAKE
Free babysitting at Café Bonjour on Valentine’s Day. Parents eat, kids play under supervision. (But if you have scored a sitter, boy have we got Valentine’s dinner ideas for you. Here and here.)

QUEEN ANNE
Metropolitan Market is going all out for Valentine’s: from 5-7 on Thursday there will be a champagne tasting, crab cakes, oysters, and chocolate covered strawberries at the Mercer Street location. And from 4-7 that same day, sample Cupcake Royale’s Deathcake and Macrina Bakery’s chocolate cherry heart loaf. Both pastries will be at the Queen Anne Ave location for sample and for sale on Saturday.

WEST SEATTLE
Full Tilt Ice Cream is expanding, though not with a new retail location this time (yet.) According to the West Seattle blog, the ice creamery is taking over a 6,061 square-foot space to use for manufacturing, storage, and as a laboratory, with tentative plans for retail space and perhaps a gallery in the future. The new space will allow Full Tilt to crank out more goodness, as well as give kids mouthwatering tours.

MULTIPLE LOCATIONS

Tom Douglas wants to send you to Hawaii. Two tickets to Kona, three nights at a swanky hotel, and a big seafood dinner are up for grabs. Drop by any of his restaurants to pick up the contest questions, or download it here and drop it off.

Dangerous: Trophy Cupcakes are now available by delivery. A day’s notice and a minimum order of a dozen cupcakes (maybe a batch of February’s special dark chocolate raspberry cupcakes…) will get you delivery for $15 in Seattle, $20 in Bellevue.

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Tags: Tom Douglas, Full Tilt, Neighborhood Food News Roundup, Cupcakes, Food News Roundup, Wild Ginger, Sunday Suppers, Free Food, Contests, Trophy Cupcakes

Full Tilt’s New Flavor: Cornflakes

Consider it an ice cream homage to New York City’s Milk Bar.

Posted by: Stephanie Rubesh on Jan 10, 2012 at 11:45AM 0 Comments

Tastes like sweet milk, smells like sweet milk—it is sweet milk. Just in frozen form.

Full Tilt Ice Cream is taking a page from Milk Bar, Christina Tosi’s much-loved dessert offshoot of David Chang’s restaurant empire. Owner Justin Cline, already known for his unconventionally awesome flavors, has been finalizing a new addition. Behold, cornflakes ice cream: the taste of sugary bottom-of-the-bowl cereal milk now in dessert form. Cline says the flavor, a play on Milk Bar’s famed cereal milk and its attendant ice cream, has been a hit thus far.

The ice creamery’s initial batch—complete with caramelized cornflakes—is going fast. But we’re in luck. Another batch is being churned and will be available at all Full Tilt locations this weekend (including the new Ballard shop). “From the small test batches we’ve done, I think this is going to be a summer favorite,” says Cline. Black sesame and chocolate tarragon are also in the works.

“But it’s January,” whines my practical side. Hush. This flavor promises to be as exciting in the 40-degree present as it will be in the theoretical 75-degree future.

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Tags: Ice Cream, Special Menus, Food Trends in Seattle, Full Tilt, Justin Cline, On the Menu

Full Tilt’s Ballard Location Opens Today

Prepare to revel in beer floats and pinball.

Posted by: Allecia Vermillion on Nov 04, 2011 at 11:20AM 0 Comments

Seattle gains another Full Tilt…this time in Ballard.

Today Full Tilt Ice Cream unleashes its brilliant triumvirate of pinball, beer and creative frozen delights on Ballard. The shop at 5453 Leary Ave NW opens at noon.

Owner Justin Cline says Full Tilt Ballard will be “a lot more pinball-focused” than the White Center, Columbia City and University District locations. Right now 12 pinball machines await patrons, including this one, and Cline says he’ll ultimately have 15. Not to worry, there are arcade games too.

The new location is the largest Full Tilt yet, and will offer bottled beer and oh-so-trendy cans, including the wares of new Ballard brewery Hilliard’s. On the non-alcoholic side of things, look for Dry Soda and retro-tastic soft drink Moxie.

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Tags: Seattle Restaurant Openings, Ice Cream, Full Tilt