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Best Dishes of 2013 Countdown #8: The Old Sage

Roasted and Raw Gourds

Kathryn Robinson
Author: Kathryn Robinson
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The Old Sage: Roasted and Raw Gourds

The latest from the prolific Brian McCracken and Dana Tough (Spur, Tavern Law, the Coterie Room), the Old Sage is a gastropub of real pretension; precious at times with things like lavender-smoked pork cheeks and $40 drams of single-malt scotch. But precious can also mean a gorgeously composed plate of roasted and raw gourds, where smoky roasted squash, curled cuke slices, and chunks of compressed watermelon come masterfully accented with mint leaves, dollops of yogurt, and Calabrian chili. A beautiful dish in every sense of the word.

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.