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Best Dishes of 2013 Countdown #2: Joule

Spicy Rice Cake with Chorizo and Pickled Mustard Greens

At Joule: Spicy Rice Cake with Chorizo and Pickled Mustard Greens

Side dish of the year is this stunner from Rachel Yang’s and Seif Chirchi’s sleek redo of Joule: nickels of sliced Korean mochi, or rice cake, sauteed to crisp on the outside and chewy within, tossed with pickled mustard greens and chunks of fiery chorizo—then bound in a smoky Korean chili sauce that unites all these offsetting textures into a single declarative force. Perfect with the pot roasts and short ribs of this modern Korean-fusion meat house… just as perfect all by itself. 

Here are more of my favorite dishes of 2013. 

 











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.