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Boozy weekend: scotch abounds at John Howie and Hop Scotch, cask beer fest, and Taste Washington.

Posted by: Anne Larkin on Mar 26, 2012 at 12:30PM 0 Comments

Two chances for a taste of Glenmorangie this week. Photo courtesty of the Glenmorangie website.

THURSDAY March 29
Spirited Dining at John Howie
Two important men in the world of scotch will be at John Howie this Thursday; the master brand manager and master distiller from Glenmorangie. Each of the courses in the five-course dinner will be accompanied by a carefully chosen Glenmorangie spirit. (And some Scottish accents too, we hope.) The $125 dinner begins at 6:30.

SATURDAY March 31
Taste Washington
More than 200 wineries and dozens of chefs will be at the CenturyLink Event Center this weekend for two days of tastings. Saturday’s highlight: the Canlis Food and Wine Pairing Seminar. Sunday’s: Tom Douglas on the chef stage. Tickets run from $75 to $125, and include as many samplings as you can get your hands on. Careful, large-scale wine tasting can be dangerous, read up on survival strategies first.

Hop Scotch Beer and Scotch Festival
Taste beer, scotch, wine and other spirits in this two-day fundraiser for the Seattle International Film Festival. Tickets run from $15 to $30, and there are optional seminars to take part in to further your scotch knowledge.

Edible Book Festival
Both literary puns and cake abound at the seventh annual competition of homemade edible books. Some of last year’s winners: Un Berryable Lighness of Being and Lord of the Fries. (I like S’More and Peace and Don Quichote in particular.) The event begins at noon with viewing and voting, and the cakes will be eaten at two. If you’re a brilliantly nerdy baker, register your entry by midnight Wednesday, March 28.

Washington Cask Beer Festival
The Brewers Guild will convene at the Seattle Center to share, taste, and discuss more than 70 cask-conditioned beers. The celebration of brewers’ creativity (a favorite in the beer community) is divided into two sessions, one from noon to 4 and one from 5:30 to 9:30—both cost $35 in advance, $40 at the door.

MONDAY April 2
Kids Spring Break Camp
The Kirkland Sur La Table is willing to take your kids off your hands for three days. They’ll learn kitchen fundamentals for the first two days, then get down to what cooking is really all about on Wednesday with a competition. The $120 price tag is worth it just for what they’ll learn to make at home: cornflake crusted chicken fingers, caramel cheesecake bites, and homemade pretzels… (Also, an interesting adult class on Monday—Great Recipes of Seattle. Learn to make the Canlis salad and Dahlia coconut cream pie, among other legends.)

BEYOND
April 5 Savor SLU The SLU Discovery Center will host a variety of restaurants for a sampling of the neighborhood’s offerings on Thursday night at 5. The $35 ticket includes a glass of wine and bites from places like Cuoco and Lunchbox Laboratory.

April 15 Musical Plates, Seattle’s most raucous food tour, is hitting the streets again, this time with the band OK Sweetheart. Guests will be guided around the city to some of the most popular tables, with live music every step of the way. Tickets are $60 before April 6, $75 after, and the event runs for four hours.

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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

Flatbread Pizza at Novelty Hill and Januik

An appetizing weekend lunch option in wine country.

Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Aug 02, 2010 at 10:35AM 0 Comments

Beautiful Novelty Hill-Januik, where weekend flatbread pizzas are $12 per pie.

So if you haven’t been out to Woodinville yet this summer for some weekend wine tasting, you gotta do it. And when you go, you gotta eat. I like lunch at Barking Frog, and the deck at the Forecaster’s Pub at Redhook Brewery is fun even if the food is sort of…just okay.

But here’s another good option: the gorgeous Novelty Hill and Januik building (the two wineries are separate businesses but share a winemaker and a new ultramodern facility) serves crackly wood-oven pizza on Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 4:30pm. They’re $12, and you can order any of the tasting-room wines—including the pizza-friendly 2007 Stillwater Creek sangiovese—by the glass or bottle.

The current menu includes four flatbread pies: mixed cheese (fontina, Danish mozzarella, aged cheddar); heirloom tomato with roasted chicken and a cabernet-San Marzano sauce; Genoa salami with wild mushrooms and fresh herbs; and over-roasted tomato and pesto. Delicious.

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Tags: Wineries, Pizza, Wine Tastings, Lunch, Woodinville

Wine and Cheese: the two greatest words in the English language

Poco Wine Room and Calf and Kid join forces this Thursday, September 17th.

Posted by: Kristin Cordova on Sep 14, 2009 at 03:00PM 2 Comments

Poco Wine Room’s Peter Moore and Sheri LaVigne, proprietor of the soon-to-be Calf and Kid cheese boutique, are teaming up to bring a wine and cheese tasting event to Capitol Hill. Poco Wine Room will host the “Washington Terroir” on Sept 17th, highlighting flavors of Washington.

Guests will sample four to six wines and four artisan cheeses, upping their pairing IQs with suggestions from the pros. LaVigne will feature fromages from Black Sheep Creamery, Mt. Townsend Creamery, Blue Rose Dairy, and Estrella Creamery. But she’s keeping mum on exactly which flavors and which vinos will take center stage—there’s nothing like wait-and-see to curdle suspense.

Cost: $30, event starts at 7pm. RSVP at 206-322-9463 or info@pocowineroom.com.

Get a taste of Poco’s happy hour here or, if you need more cheese, school yourself on the local creameries and learn to make the perfect cheese plate with chef Daniel Ahern.

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Tags: Cheese, Wine Tastings, Poco Wine Room, The Calf and Kid