Kushibar is a much needed addition to the Belltown food scene serving Japanese street food. Kushi means stick in Japanese, and just as the name suggests you can order pretty much anything edible on a stick here (Kushiyaki)- vegetables, seafood and meat including almost every part of a chicken- liver, heart, gizzards, feet, balls (ok, not [...]
I haven’t been doing many restaurant reviews lately, there is no other excuse than just my laziness. Sometimes I forget my camera, sometimes I forget to click pictures but most times the pictures just sit there on my camera forever! Anyway, as I was doing some PC housecleaning today, I found a few pictures from [...]
It’s been a while since a restaurant has really knocked my socks off, but this cozy little French/Spanish restaurant in Capitol Hill has managed to do just that! Olivar is owned by chef Philippe Thomelin who has worked at some notable local restaurants like Cascadia and Harvest Vine before. The interior is quite charming, though [...]
A gastropub is a pub that also serves gourmet fare, a few notches above your regular pub grub. Recently two new gastropubs opened in the Seattle area, I hope it is the start of a new fad. Great drinks and gourmet food served in a cool hip space is just my kind of fun!
Spur is [...]
Joule is a French Korean fusion restaurant owned by Rachel Yang and Seif Chirchi of Coupage, a terrific restaurant that went to the restaurant heaven along with several other Seattle eateries this year. I was pretty impressed with Coupage, as weird as it may sound the French Korean fusion really was a winning combo, so [...]
I have so many restaurants reviews in draft, I am using the Thanksgiving holidays to get as many of these reviews out before I completely forget about the experience, so this is going to be a restaurant review week here. We are going away on a short trip for a couple of days, so I [...]
Bin 941 Tapas Parlour - Vancouver BC
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008Filed Under Vancouver BC | 14 Comments
Even though there is no shortage of fine food or shops in Seattle, we often drive to Canada to enjoy the range of food and shopping that Vancouver BC has to offer. There are a few favorite restaurants that we frequent, but we also try a new place every now and then. Bin 941 is [...]
When I heard that Herbfarm ex-chef Jerry Traunfeld started his own restaurant in Seattle, that got added to my must-try-restaurants list. Then I got to know that Jerry got his inspiration for Poppy’s menu from the Indian Thali, that took Poppy right up to the top of that list! An Indian thali is a variety [...]
Dining with Mario Batali, Wolfgang Puck, Thomas Keller and David Burke at The Venetian Las Vegas
Saturday, September 20th, 2008Filed Under Las Vegas | 16 Comments
We didn’t do many grand scale dinners this time in Vegas. Instead we decided to check out some casual fare by some of our favorite chefs. We don’t normally venture out much in Vegas. Whichever casino we chose to stay at is where we end up eating and playing at. Who wants to waste all [...]
Looks like Tapas are the latest trend in Seattle! I remember a time when we had only a couple of good Tapas places, but looks like there are quite a few restaurants popping out around the area. I am not complaining though, I have professed my love for Spanish food in this blog many times. [...]
Tidbit Bistro
Saturday, August 16th, 2008Filed Under Capitol Hill, Italian, Spanish, Tapas | 7 Comments
idbit bistro is a casual European restaurant in Capitol Hill that serves Spanish and Italian comfort cuisine. Where Madrid meets Napoli is their slogan. The food is unpretentious, simple and extremely delicious, ambience is casual, staff is friendly and the prices are very reasonable - a perfect place to sit back and relax with a [...]
Le Cirque, Bellagio - Las Vegas
Saturday, July 26th, 2008Filed Under Las Vegas, Travel | 16 Comments
I am so behind on blogging that I never finished my Las Vegas restaurant trilogy from the first week of June! I left the best for last; now after almost two months my memory is a little dicey! Same is the case with so many Seattle restaurants in my drafts, but those I can go [...]
Mango Coconut Panna Cotta and Cafe Campagne
Sunday, July 13th, 2008Filed Under Belltown, Breakfast/Brunch, Coconut, Desserts, Diary, French, Mango | 24 Comments
Finally it is summer in Seattle! I don’t think anyone else enjoys summer as much as us Seattleites. We have learned to fully appreciate the few sunny days we get every year. The streets are so lively these days, it is so much fun to go out into the city and get lost in the [...]
Bobby Flay’s Mesa Grill, Las Vegas
Sunday, June 29th, 2008Filed Under Las Vegas, Travel | 25 Comments
Siv and I are major Iron Chef fans - one of the very few TV programs we watch together. One of the Iron chefs we really love to watch is Bobby Flay, the main reason being his love towards using bold flavors. He is not afraid to experiment with a little heat, his favorite cooking [...]
Michael Mina, Bellagio - Las Vegas
Thursday, June 12th, 2008Filed Under Las Vegas, Travel | 31 Comments
Since this was our anniversary trip to Vegas, we were all ready to check off as many restaurants as we can from our Las Vegas wish list. Michael Mina was right up there on top of the list, as we missed the opportunity in San Francisco last year. Michael Mina’s SF restaurant has got two [...]
With a catchy name like that, how can anyone resist! Though one can’t help but wonder if the food is any good or is it just the cool name behind all this hype! You have to admit that the name does carry a certain irresistibility factor, which might be one reason behind the unbelievable difficulty [...]
Bloggers Night Out at Tamarind Tree
Thursday, March 6th, 2008Filed Under Asian, International District, Vietnamese | 50 Comments
We may not have as many bloggers out here in Seattle as in the Bay Area, but the Seattle foodies sure know how to have fun! Can you guess who these lovely ladies are?
So, drum rolls please… For the first time in food blogging history, unveiling the beautiful faces behind these amazing blogs - [...]
Txori - Taste of Basque in Belltown
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008Filed Under Belltown, Spanish, Tapas | 16 Comments
When we heard that the Harvest Vine folks opened a new restaurant in Belltown last fall, we were jumping with joy. Harvest Vine is one of our favorite restaurants in town and we love Spanish food. Then I came to know that Txori is a pintxos bar. Pintxos are the Basque version of Tapas, a [...]
Boka Kitchen and Bar
Saturday, February 9th, 2008Filed Under American, Downtown, Northwest | 16 Comments
You all must be tired of reading about my birthday by now. It really wasn’t a never ending birthday as some of you thought. Since my birthday is my favorite day of the year, I have been talking about it for a while, so I can see why you would think that. But the celebrations [...]
On my birthday, Siv took me to Cremant (pronounced- Kray-Mahn), a famed French Bistro in Madrona that we have been planning to try for a while. Cremant is an unpretentious bistro serving traditional French fare in good sized portions. It is not your typical fine dining French restaurant, where you will have umpteen courses of tiny plates; not that I don’t enjoy that experience.
A Birthday Celebration at Red Fin
Saturday, January 19th, 2008Filed Under Asian, Downtown, Japanese, Seattle Restaurants, Sushi | 30 Comments
Siv’s birthday was on a Wednesday this year. We had a private celebration at home, with just the two of us, where I cooked a bunch of his favorite dishes. Then Friday night, we had another celebration with the gang, and after considering a bunch of places, I picked Red Fin as the venue. Siv’s [...]
Feenie’s Vancouver
Sunday, January 13th, 2008Filed Under Other Restaurants, Restaurant Reviews, Vancouver BC | 16 Comments
I am sure all the food network fans out there are familiar with the name Rob Feenie - one of the few chefs to win the battle against the ultimate Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto on Iron Chef America. He used to be the executive chef at Lumiere in Vancouver, one of the best restaurants in [...]
Carmelita
Friday, January 4th, 2008Filed Under Greenwood, Seattle Restaurants, Vegetarian | 23 Comments
Carmelita is my very first all-vegetarian restaurant experience. Yeah, you read that right, I went to a restaurant that does not serve any meat! It was a friend’s birthday, not the time to be picky, you know. We were all prepared to go have a nice time, and just in case the food sucked, get [...]
A Culinary Journey through Spain
Friday, December 14th, 2007Filed Under Restaurant Reviews, Spain, Travel | 29 Comments
Here it is, the post I have been promising to write for about two weeks now. I finally got around to sorting through all the pictures, a lot of them unusable, especially the ones that were taken after a few glasses of Sangria. But I do have quite a lot, to give you some idea [...]
Restaurant Gary Danko - San Francisco
Monday, November 12th, 2007Filed Under Restaurant Reviews, San Francisco, Travel | 24 Comments
As I mentioned in my previous SF post, the highlight of our San Francisco trip was the dinner at Gary Danko, a Michelin rated restaurant, which just happened to be a block away from our hotel. Our reservation was at a different place, Michael Mina, which was a small drive away. When I called up [...]
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