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Skillet eats, crab at the Corson Building, Check, Please! airs, and clam-digging season begins.

Posted by: Anne Larkin on Mar 05, 2012 at 01:00PM 0 Comments

Dungeness crab extravaganza at the Corson Building on Thursday.

WEDNESDAY March 7

Giving Grill for Whole Planet Foundation
Shrimp po’boys for a good cause at the Westlake Whole Foods. A sandwich, chips, and a drink can be yours for a $5 donation, which goes to Whole Foods’ foundation supporting microfinance and microenterprise in developing nations.

THURSDAY March 8

Cast Iron Skillet, Big Flavors
Seattle-based mother-daughter team Sharon Kramis and Julie Kramis Hearne will be at the Book Larder, illuminating the world of the cast iron skillet with their book Cast Iron Skillet Big Flavors. The free event begins at 6:30 and promises skillet-prepared samples.

Dungeness Dinner
The Corson Building, the communal dining destination by Matt Dillon of Sitka and Spruce, is hosting a Dungeness crab dinner. The crustacean-centric feast costs $40.

Skillet Heirloom Pig Event
The Skillet crew received an entire Tamworth pig this weekend courtesy of Vashon butcher Farmstead Meatsmith. Hence both diner and truck(s) are planning a pig-centric menu items to use this noble animal in its entirety. A special Heirloom Pig tasting menu starts today at 5pm at the diner, running $55 for the meal, or $85 paired with local wines. The famous waffle will be dressed up for the event: braised and glazed pork belly with a bacon caramel waffle. The mobile version of Skillet will also have a special pork banh mi from 11 to 2.

Mushroom Identification Class Series
Puget Sound Mycological Society’s four-part class series for beginner mushroom enthusiasts begins on Thursday at the UW Center for Urban Horticulture. The classes will cover collecting and, more importantly, identifying poisonous and non-poisonous mushrooms.

Crab and Prawn Boil at Salty’s
The Salty chefs at the Alki Beach and Redondo Beach locations will be boiling up pounds upon pounds of crab and prawns, and $35 gets you in on the action. The restaurant recommends making reservations for the meal, the price of which includes a pound and a half of seafood plus bread, chowder, salad, and a pint of hefeweizen.

Check, Please!
The show dedicated to everyone’s favorite activity, discussing and/or debating local restaurants, led by local food personality Amy Penningon airs today at 7 on KCTS 9.

SATURDAY March 10

Razor Clam Season
The clam-digging season is tentatively set to start on Saturday, as long as toxin tests and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife declare the clams safe to eat. Digs are planned to coincide with morning low tides, and the WDFW website has specific locations and times listed.

SUNDAY March 11

Cochon 555
Worth the trip: the fourth annual pig fest may not be happening in Seattle, but it’s on in Portland. Five Portland chefs will be preparing a pork heavy menu (accompanied by five winemakers) for a culinary competition and massive snout-to-tail meal, all in the name of promoting sustainable pig farming practices. Tickets range from $125 to $250, and past menus have included everything from pig skin beignets to root beer floats made with smoked fatback gelato.

MONDAY March 12

Walla Walla Wine
Washington Wine Month continues with a bevy of Walla Walla wines coming west to Seattle for the day. Sodo Park (don’t worry, it’s actually inside) will host dozens of wineries for a tasting. The event is open to the public from 6 to 9, and tickets are $40.

BEYOND

March 14 Pi Day at Pie from noon to 314, hand pies are (can you guess?) $3.14 and mini pies are 3 for…$3.14.

March 14 Colorful be-hatted chef Thierry Rautureau will be leading a lamb butchery demo in the Rover’s kitchen. A front row seat and a 3-course lunch with wine for $125.

March 27 Cafe Presse is hosting its second communal dinner, part of the 12th Avenue restaurant’s new Corner Table series that is becoming a monthly fixture. Four courses for $24, $39 with wine.

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Tags: Tastings and Classes, Rover's, Tavolata, Weekly Planner, Weekly Food Planner, Book Larder, Cafe Presse, Seattle Food Events, Sunday Suppers, Wine Tastings, Wine, Walla Walla Wines

Sunday Snouts and Stouts at Little Water Cantina

Local beer + roast pig = one hell of a monthly meal.

Posted by: Allecia Vermillion on Feb 16, 2012 at 12:30PM 1 Comments

How do you take advantage of an awesome patio during colder months? Break out your Caja China and set up a pig roast. Photo: Little Water Cantina via Facebook.

Little Water Cantina is combining two of the more enjoyable Seattle food trends of late: Family-style Sunday-night meals, and our ongoing infatuation with whole animals. On the last Sunday of each month, the Eastlake Mexican restaurant is offering up an event alliteratively titled Snouts and Stouts. Chef-owner Shannon Wilkinson will be roasting a whole, naturally raised pig out on the restaurant’s stellar patio and serving it up (indoors, at least for now) in the form of pork tacos.

Fifteen bucks buys you “a traditional giant Mexican plate” of the aforementioned tacos, with beans, rice, and handmade tortillas, plus a pint of beer from whichever local brewery is partnering up for the occasion. This month Odin Brewing Co. will be representing, and Wilkinson has promised the full lineup on tap.

All this monthly pig and beer action happens from 5 to 9pm, starting February 26. Wilkinson says he’ll use that same beer to make the beans, and hopefully to brine the pig as well. Subsequent Odin pints will be $4. You can RSVP on the Facebook page if you like, but these monthly pork-fueled gatherings are designed to be casual drop-in affairs.

UPDATE—I would be remiss if I did not mention that the first pig roast will feature the musical stylings of Squirrel Butter. If for no other reason than it’s fun to type “Squirrel Butter.”

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Tags: Sunday Suppers, Seattle Food Events, Little Water Cantina, Shannon Wilkinson, Shannon Wilkinson

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

Soup’s On at Joule

Each Sunday the Wallingford eatery ladles the “Best Soup in Town.”

Posted by: Christopher Werner on Jan 28, 2011 at 09:47AM 0 Comments

Joule in Wallingford hosts weekly soup suppers. Photo courtesy Joule.

Regular readers of this blog know soup is sort of our thing right now. It appears Stranger staffers maintain similar sentiments—in this week’s paper a feature titled Soup! catalogs their favorite bowls.

One mention especially worth calling out is the soup-centric Sunday suppers at Joule. A couple weeks back the Wallingford favorite rolled out the winter series (dubbed “Best Soup in Town”, which we’re inclined to believe) happening every Day of Rest until March 27.

The supper costs $25 for adults, $10 for kids, and the menu switches weekly. Past offerings meant pork kimchi stew and cassoulet; coming up January 30 is Hungarian goulash to be followed by “red hot” chili, dungeness crab cioppino, and whole bunch of other promising globetrotters (the menu is available on Joule’s Facebook page). With the soup comes up to seven dishes served family style.

To reserve a seat, call 206-632-1913.

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Tags: Special Dinners, Wallingford, Soup, Sunday Suppers, Joule

Tavolàta’s Family-Style Supper Series Begins

First up: lamb.

Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Nov 05, 2010 at 03:33PM 0 Comments

Aw. Tavolàta’s nose-to-tail monthly feasts take advantage of every part of the animal. For vegetarians and the cute-sensitive, there’s a spring vegetable dinner in May.

Ethan Stowell-owned, Brandon Kirksey-cheffed Tavolàta is getting in on the Sunday supper action with a once-a-month, family-style feast to be served at the restaurant’s communal table.

The dinners are held on the first Sunday of each lunar cycle—this Sunday, November 7 the star ingredient is lamb. Dishes shall include lamb’s tongue bruschetta; rigatoni with lamb sausage, mint and tomato; gnocchi with braised lamb’s neck; and whole-roasted leg of lamb with rapini and polenta.

Call 206-838-8008 to reserve. If there are no more seats, sign up for future feasts featuring lobster (December 5), suckling pig (January 9), seafood (February 6), whole roasted goat (March 6), wild fowl and eggs (April 3), and—hello vegetarians, did you make it through that thing about lamb’s tongue?—spring vegetables (May 1).

Dinners range from $45 to $60 per person.

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Tags: Belltown, Sunday Suppers, Ethan Stowell

Now on the Menu at Volunteer Park Cafe: Sunday Supper

The Capitol Hill restaurant will host a feast every month.

Posted by: Christopher Werner on Oct 14, 2010 at 01:42PM 1 Comments

Sunday Supper at Volunteer Park Cafe: It’s on.

Welcome news for us, probably less so for the had-it-up-to-here neighbor set: Sunday Suppers are now a regular thing at Volunteer Park Café. The north Capitol Hill restaurant has decided to keep up with the monthly multi-course, chef’s choice feasts, initiated over the summer to cheers from longtime patrons.

The next dinner is October 17 at 6pm. Price: $30; wine and beer will cost ya.

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Tags: Capitol Hill, Special Dinners, Sunday Suppers

Marjorie the Latest to Set the Sunday Supper Table

Their first feast is October 10.

Posted by: Christopher Werner on Oct 08, 2010 at 09:29AM 0 Comments

Marjorie on Capitol Hill hosts its first Sunday Supper October 10.

Marjorie is joining the Sunday Supper club. The Capitol Hill restaurant is hosting its first family style feast October 10 as a means of “showcasing the bounty of the season.”

The menu will highlight produce from the Capitol Hill Farmers Market; other menu mentions include grilled albacore tuna, roasted chicken, and hand-cut pasta.

The meal costs $40—I’d says that’s pretty reasonable considering wine is included—and starts at 5pm. RSVP by calling 206‐372‐3995 or emailing info@marjorierestaurant.com.

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Tags: Special Dinners, Food Events and Festivals, Sunday Suppers

Summer Plans: Volunteer Park Cafe

The neighborhood restaurant on Capitol Hill will be ground zero for good times this summer.

Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Apr 27, 2010 at 02:23PM 1 Comments

Ericka Burke and Nick Castleberry in the kitchen at Volunteer Park Cafe.

UPDATE: Don’t get too used to Castleberry’s famous brisket. I just heard from VPC’s PR rep that he is moving out of town in two weeks.

Are you ready for summer in Seattle?

I jogged by Volunteer Park Cafe this morning, where I took advantage of an opportunity to stop jogging. I went to check out VPC’s new chicken coop, behind the restaurant in a backyard area that is currently being dug up to create a raised-bed garden and an outdoor-seating area made from repurposed bricks.

What will grow in the garden? The list is long, here are highlights: yellow Brandywine tomatoes and French breakfast radish, Cherokee wax bush beans and 12 varieties of sunflower, Bloomsdale savoy spinach and freckles romaine lettuce. The hens will be responsible for laying eggs, which will be used for cafe purposes.

Rogue chef Nick Castleberry has popped up behind the line as the restaurant’s sous. A veteran of Sitka and Spruce and Artemis, Castleberry was last seen firing up stupidly delicious brisket and pork belly over semolina at the Summit Public House. No one really believed that would last, but he is in good company with the ladies of VPC.

The restaurant will also be introducing a Sunday supper series this summer, to be held on the last Sunday in June, July, August, and September. It will be a three-course, family-style dinner on the patio. The price is TBD but will be in the neighborhood of $25. Also in the cafe’s plans: Fourth of July picnic baskets.

These baskets will cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $12-$15 and will include homemade lemonade, a baguette sandwich, two side salads, watermelon, and some baked goods. Order by July 1.

Oh wow, I think the sun just came out.

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Tags: Capitol Hill, Chefs, Edible Gardens, Sunday Suppers, Summer Plans