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- It’s an enormous and sometimes painful task to prepare a multi-course meal for Thanksgiving, so it’s completely understandable why some people prefer to dine out on the holiday.
It’s an enormous and sometimes painful task to prepare a multi-course meal for Thanksgiving, so it’s completely understandable why some people prefer to dine out on the holiday.
Dining appears to be going mobile around town. In the last few weeks, I’ve encountered two new mobile food trailers serving burgers and dogs along busy roads in South Hill and Tacoma.
I’m in a hurry. I need lunch. I don’t want drive-through, and standing in a long line is not an option. My solution: take-out soup. It’s not exactly portable food, but a much more nutritious lunch than hitting your local fast-food joint.
“Authentic” is a word thrown around the foreign restaurant scene with abandon. It lures diners in with the promise of being transported to a faraway land where they rub elbows with locals fresh from a National Geographic photo shoot. But too much authentic and diners flee for the Americanized safety of Olive Garden and Panda Express.
Call them leftovers of French Imperialism. Vietnamese Banh mi sandwiches are tasty little imports of culinary mishmash.
On football nights in Puyallup, it feels like the Sparks Firehouse Deli has been a part of the community forever.
Walking into Sweet Things Cupcakes & Couture is like wandering into a girl convention. On first glance, it looks as if a prom queen exploded inside the store and covered every available surface with sparkly things – purses, big flashy cocktail rings, rhinestone bracelets and even tiaras cram every nook of the remodeled Proctor residence that opened as a cupcake and baubles shop Sept. 12.
As we finished our dinners on a slow Monday night at Orting’s Park Bench Café, owner and cook Shawn Potter stepped out of the kitchen and grabbed a seat near our table.
Uptown Gig Harbor, a two-year-old “lifestyle center,” is home to several restaurants with another, Blazing Onion, scheduled to open later this month. This outdoor mall is more University Village than Lakewood Towne Center. The pedestrian is king here, not the car. Complimentary umbrellas stand at the ready in the event of an unscheduled downpour. Well-designed landscaping complements the human-scaled buildings. We stopped in at four restaurants for this report.
The makeover inside Andre’s Bar & Grill in Bonney Lake is impressive. You might not even guess it used to be a Mazatlan Mexican restaurant.
The scene: Occupying a corner spot on Olympia’s main drag and kitty-corner from the new City Hall under construction, Cicada is an intimate dining destination. Big windows look out to the street while local art fills its interior walls. The restaurant is named after the big, vociferous bugs native to the southern United States.
Budd Gould, founder and owner of Anthony’s Restaurants, stands in the hallway of one of his newest acquisitions – which is one of his oldest properties.
In the muckraking tradition of Upton Sinclair and the documentary stylings of “An Inconvenient Truth,” Robert Kenner’s “Food, Inc.” seeks to lift the curtain on the cynical and often sickening workings of the modern industrial food system. This absorbing film does a superb job of making its case that our current food ways are out of whack. The trick will be getting “Food, Inc.’s” message beyond its natural constituency to the millions whose choices in the marketplace, the film argues, represent a tsunami of untapped power.
Freighthouse Square is a microcosm of what’s good about the culinary landscape in Tacoma: It’s big on variety. Lots of it. Here's a look at 10 (and a few more) restaurants, all under one giant roof at Freighthouse Square.
Taco trucks can have dubious reputations, but food lovers know that some of the best Mexican food can be found in dusty parking lots.
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