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Best Dishes of 2013 Countdown # 10: Crumble and Flake

Kathryn Robinson
Author: Kathryn Robinson
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The predawn lines have subsided at perfectionist patissier Neil Robertson’s little no-table storefront on the Capitol Hill rise—but the quality hasn’t. At Crumble and Flake, danishes, macarons, shortbreads, cinnamon rolls, cream puffs, canele, and kouign amann remain lush, constructed with a craftsman’s standard and inspired ratios of butter. I can’t stop obsessing over how one particular croissant—gilded with savory cheddar, sublimely deepened with smoky Spanish paprika—shattered on the palate into a million melting shards.

Here are more of my favorite dishes of 2013. 




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Kathryn Robinson
Kathryn Robinson
Senior Writer Seattle native Kathryn Robinson, award-winning restaurant critic and senior writer at Seattle Met, has been anonymously reviewing restaurants for over 30 years—first as editor of the Best Places guidebook series, then as staff critic at Seattle Weekly and contributing critic at The Seattle Times and Seattle magazine.  Midcareer she spent a year-long sabbatical studying comparative religion as a Knight Fellow at Stanford University where she had been an undergrad 10 years earlier, gaining a knowledge base she now calls upon for her monthly “Back Fence” column on our collective urban existence and the meaning it holds for our personal lives. In her off hours she is a partner and a parent—which means she has no off hours.