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Neighborhood Food News: More Pasta at Il Corvo and Dine Around Seattle Is Coming Right Up

Plus: Cheese field trips with Calf and Kid, Proletariat Pizza delivers, and more.

Posted by: Anne Larkin on Feb 29, 2012 at 12:30PM 0 Comments

Shortened hours means more pasta at Il Corvo.

CAPITOL HILL
Melrose Market cheesemonger The Calf and Kid is reviving the elementary school joy of the field trip with day trips to Yarmuth Farms to tour the creamery, pet the baby animals, and eat a big, cheesy lunch.

DOWNTOWN
The bad news: Il Corvo, the fresh pasta joint tucked into a gelato shop, is closing Mondays, cutting its days to Tuesday–Friday. The good news: Owner Mike Easton is closing Monday to have more pasta-making hours, so he will actually be able to keep serving lunch until 3 on the days the shop is open and can have more beautiful specials. (Like ‘naked’ nettle ravioli).

GREENWOOD
Phinneywood reports that Chuck’s Hop Shop is hosting a beer tasting to raise money for Vision Greenwood Park tonight, Wednesday the 1st, from five to eight.

LYNNWOOD
There’s a new Whole Foods opening soon up north—the grand opening will be on Thursday, March 15. An hour of hoopla begins at 8, and the doors officially open to the public at 9. Then on Saturday, March 17, the store is having a family-oriented celebration from 10 to 2…free samples?

U DISTRICT
As part of Free First Thursday, the Burke Museum will be opening its Hungry Planet exhibit to the public free of charge. The exhibit explores the interplay between food and culture through photos of families in their markets and homes with a week’s worth of groceries, as well as a special display about traditional Native American foodways.

WEST SEATTLE
Proletariat Pizza is trying out a new delivery service—available Monday through Wednesday to addresses nearby the White Center shop, according to Eater Seattle.

MULTIPLE LOCATIONS
On Thursday, March 1, the new Washington liquor legislation kicks in, making it possible for restaurants and bars to work directly with distillers and distributors without the state as a middleman. But things might not really change too much, for now at least.

Food-lover magazine Bon Appetit named the Hot Cakes bacon, oatmeal, raisin cookies served at Stumptown as one of the nation’s best coffee shop desserts. (And they’ve got a recipe!)

On the subject of accolades, Where Ya At Matt was counted amongst the nation’s 20 best food trucks by the most well-known arbiter of taste in the restaurant world, Smithsonian Magazine.

Dine Around Seattle, the 3-courses-for-$30 restaurant extravaganza, begins Thursday, March 1, with more restaurants this year then ever before. Start making your lists and your reservations.

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Tags: Pizza, Il Corvo, Neighborhood Food News Roundup, Liquor Privatization, Food News Roundup, Liquor Laws, Food News, Pasta, Dine Around Seattle, Awards and Accolades, Where Ya At Matt

Ethan Stowell’s Pasta Line

The chef is selling eight types of pasta at local stores.

Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Jul 14, 2010 at 02:59PM 0 Comments

On top of opening a new restaurant and releasing his cookbook called Ethan Stowell’s New Italian Kitchen, Ethan Stowell has also introduced a line of pastas.

Like the food at his restaurants, they’re fancy—don’t be thinking he’s going to keep you in penne or elbow macaroni.

The brand is called Lagana Foods, and Stowell is partnering with Kaela Farrington on the project. They’re making eight types: casarecce, radiatore, campanelle, conchiglie, rigatoni, and gnocchetti, lumache, and strozzapreti. That last one means “priest choker.” I told you they were fancy.

Buy Lagana pastas at DeLaurenti, Picnic, or Whole Foods.

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Cafe da Pino in Ravenna

A great little neighborhood salsiccia joint

Posted by: Kathryn Robinson on Mar 01, 2010 at 09:00AM 2 Comments

Cafe da Pino in Ravenna

Pino Ragano moved his teensy sausage-curing operation out of the Rainier Valley’s “Garlic Gulch” and into Ravenna about a year and a half ago, but it’s taken me that long to get there.

Cafe da Pino is every bit as undersized and overstuffed as the original; its cases crammed with the housemade sausage restaurants like Brad’s Swingside Cafe and Matt’s in the Market have proudly served their guests, alongside Pellegrino and cases of chianti and imported olive oils and pasta and more.

Oh…and four or five cafe tables for guests.

Worth the wait. Ragano’s meatball sandwich is every inch the big tender goopy mess I so fondly remember from Rainer Avenue; his sausage sandwich even better, pretty killer in fact, drenched in red sauce and melting mozzarella. A big creamy pesto clung to fine ravioli and pine nuts in the nightly special. All in all…yum.

Mostly it’s just a happy little dose of Calabria on 65th; Old-World right down to its happy little pricetags.

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Tags: Restaurants, Pasta, Ravenna