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Mar 5, 2012
Critic's Notebook
Mystery Menus
The fashion now in dining rooms is menu minimalism: Descriptions that may (or may not) list ingredients, but coyly withhold the preparation details diners might reasonably deem critical to their...
By Kathryn Robinson
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Feb 27, 2012
Critic's Notebook
Rising Trend in Seattle Restaurants: “Only 30 Chickens a Night!”
We’ve all been to restaurants that run out of stuff—barbecue joints that close when the meat goes, sushi bars that nimbly switch specials according to what disappears, taco trucks that fold up...
By Kathryn Robinson
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Feb 20, 2012
Critic's Notebook
The Herbfarm Brings Back its Tree Feast
Readers of a certain age will remember Euell Gibbons’ immortal phrase, “Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible!” from a TV ad for Grape Nuts. For years I wondered which “food” was meant to...
By Kathryn Robinson
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Feb 13, 2012
Critic's Notebook
Beware Falling Prices!
Time was not so long ago when a restaurateur who wanted to up the popularity and lower the accessibility threshold of his or her restaurant would simply open a downmarket adjunct next door....
By Kathryn Robinson
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Feb 6, 2012
Critic's Notebook
How to Look Like a Seattle Restaurant
Prospective restaurateurs, listen up: Anyone opening a restaurant in the greater Seattle area is legally bound to follow one of three design mandates, on file in the city licensing office. Doubt...
By Kathryn Robinson
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Jan 30, 2012
Critic's Notebook
Terra Plata’s Tamara Murphy Didn’t Invent the Happy Hour…
On the phone with Terra Plata owner and chef Tamara Murphy last week, I asked her about her former restaurant, Brasa —the Belltown Iberian restaurant that held down the 2100 block of Third Avenue...
By Kathryn Robinson
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Jan 23, 2012
Critic's Notebook
Restaurants with Cushions
I get loads of requests for restaurant recommendations, but here was a first: “I have a ‘bony butt’ which means it’s painful to sit on chair with little or no padding. I carry a cushion in my car...
By Kathryn Robinson
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Jan 9, 2012
Critic’s Notebook
Music to Dine By
The first Phil Collins song was okay; pleasant and mildly nostalgic. By the time the fourth rolled around we had fallen into an easy-listening coma. We were at Blind Pig Bistro, Charles Walpole’s...
By Kathryn Robinson
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Jan 3, 2012
Critic's Notebook
Triangle-Shaped Restaurants
Maybe it’s Seattle’s colliding street grids, maybe it’s just our penchant for idiosyncratic spaces. But the recent openings of Terra Plata and Macleod’s Scottish Pub remind me that Seattle’s long...
By Kathryn Robinson
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Dec 23, 2011
Critic's Notebook
Top 10 Dishes of 2011: Revel Manila Clam Soup
‘Twas a fine, fine year to be hungry in Seattle. For ten days I’m reminiscing about just how fine, in my annual recap of the top ten plates of the year. #1 No recent debut has made a bigger...
By Kathryn Robinson
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