PNW Pantry

Linda Miller Nicholson Chases the Gnocchi Rainbow

The hometown pasta artist known as Salty Seattle now sells boxes of colorful make-at-home gnocchi.

12/06/2023 By Allecia Vermillion

Field Notes

With Bar Bacetto, Mike Easton Recreates Il Corvo in Waitsburg

Some of the best, long lost pasta in Seattle is now just a four-hour drive away.

01/30/2023 By Allecia Vermillion Photography by Amber Fouts

Seattle Dining Guide

The Best Italian Food in Seattle

Way more than pasta. (But also a ton of pasta.)

05/18/2022 By Allecia Vermillion and Seattle Met Staff

Feature

A Life Extruded: Mike Easton and the Alki Homestead’s Path to Il Nido

When the chef reshaped his career he couldn't have known he'd share his destiny with a century-old log cabin and dining icon rising from literal ashes.

10/22/2019 By Allecia Vermillion Photography by Kyle Johnson

Pasta Hacks

The Trick to Getting a Reservation at Il Nido

Good news for night owls.

06/25/2019 By Allecia Vermillion

Opening Dispatch

Mike Easton's Il Nido Is Here

The chef behind Il Corvo turned a West Seattle landmark into a destination for handmade pasta, and perhaps a drink or two.

05/20/2019 By Allecia Vermillion

Pizza. Pasta. Paradise.

18 Life-Giving Seattle Italian Restaurants

From homey snap pea carbonara to wood-fired pizza, is there a better cure for a dark and dreary November than Italian food?

11/19/2018 By Nosh Pit Staff

Culinary Tomes

Seattle's New Fall Cookbooks

We live in uncertain, performative, but ultimately tasty times—as evidenced by these new food tomes from local authors.

09/11/2018 By Rebekah Denn

OMG

Il Corvo's Mike Easton Will Open a Restaurant in West Seattle

Il Nido will serve the sort of "truly handmade pasta" that isn't feasible at mega-busy Il Corvo.

09/10/2018 By Allecia Vermillion

Food & Drink

Nosh Pit Weekly Planner August 22–28

The week in which: Kamonegi goes Filipino for a one-night popup, Agrodolce hosts an interactive pasta class, and a garlic festival is an allium-lover's paradise (but a vampire's hellscape).

08/22/2018 By Grace Madigan