Mango Coconut Panna Cotta and Cafe Campagne
Sunday, July 13th, 2008Filed Under Belltown, Breakfast/Brunch, Coconut, Desserts, Diary, French, Mango | 23 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 crowd. A friend and I had a fabulous Parisian style Sunday today. We started with brunch at Cafe Campagne, followed by a waterfront stroll and […]
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 ingredients being different varieties of chili peppers! So we were looking forward to trying out Mesa Grill, the Las Vegas version of Bobby Flay’s flagship […]
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 Michelin stars and the Vegas restaurant has one star in addition to the countless awards and accolades his different restaurants have received. With so much […]
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 in scoring a table at this latest hot spot in town.
How to Cook a Wolf is the title of a book by M.F.K. Fisher; a […]
Bloggers Night Out at Tamarind Tree
Thursday, March 6th, 2008Filed Under Asian, International District, Vietnamese | 49 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 - Archana of Archana’s Culinary Adventures, Mythili of Vindu, KayKat of Cooking from A to Z and yours truly! Hmm…does Mythili remind you of someone, the […]
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 culinary delight we discovered during our recent trip to Spain. When we were feasting on Pintxos in Barcelona, we kept wishing how great it will […]
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 lasted for barely two days, a dinner with friends the night before, and dinner with Siv the birthday night. So I promise, this is the […]
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 favorite cuisine is Pan-Asian, and Red-Fin was advertised as Asian Fusion, and had some rave reviews too.
Red Fin is owned by the same sushi chef […]
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 Canada, and has consistently won the top restaurant in Vancouver award for years. We had the most amazing meal there in 2005, where we even […]
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 some take out on the way back. But we didn’t have to, the food turned out to be quite nice.
Carmelita menu is very innovative, with […]
A Culinary Journey through Spain
Friday, December 14th, 2007Filed Under Restaurant Reviews, Spain, Travel | 28 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 about the diverse cuisine that we didn’t know much about before this trip, except for everyone’s favorite Spanish food -Tapas.
Restaurant Gary Danko - San Francisco
Monday, November 12th, 2007Filed Under Restaurant Reviews, San Francisco, Travel | 23 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 Gary Danko for reservation (they were completely booked on both nights we were there), they had told me about the walk-in bar, so we decided […]
Our Micro San Francisco Vacation
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007Filed Under San Francisco, Travel | 38 Comments
This was my first ever trip to San Francisco, but it definitely won’t be the last. You know how after a vacation you feel like taking another vacation to get over the exhaustion? Well, this one was not like that at all, if I can call a barely three day trip a vacation! This trip was totally relaxing for the mind! I felt so refreshed after the trip, totally rejuvenating - retail therapy really works.
We literally spent almost all the time at […]
I can’t believe it took us so long to finally check out Veil. Somehow we never think about this place, while brainstorming about places to go to. This time also, it happened by accident. Since our friends D & H are going to India for a month this week, H pinged all of us Friday afternoon to check if we wanted to go out and catch up before they leave. Well, of course we did! Siv and I never say […]
Cafe Juanita
Saturday, October 27th, 2007Filed Under Italian, Kirkland, Seattle Restaurants | 17 Comments
Last Sunday night three girlfriends went out to celebrate a birthday. These three girls have been friends for quite a long time, 15 years to be specific. They met in a deserted town, where there was no life other than an engineering college. The four years which could very well have been miserable, turned into the most memorable time of their lives, thanks to all the friendships formed during the time. Some of those friendships have been forgotten since, but […]
Restaurant Review - Umi Sake House
Saturday, October 6th, 2007Filed Under Belltown, Japanese, Seattle Restaurants, Sushi | 15 Comments
If I have to describe Umi Sake House in one word, the word I’d choose will be BEAUTIFUL! The food is so beautifully crafted, the decor is beautiful, add the mostly eye candy Friday night Belltown crowd to the mix, and it is a place of beauty! For a person who was not too much into Sushi a month ago, Umi has sure made me a convert! I’ve been here three times in the past four weeks! First time was […]
Restaurant Review: 94 Stewart
Saturday, September 22nd, 2007Filed Under American, Downtown, Mediterranian | 9 Comments
One of the after-effects of maintaining a restaurant review blog is that your friends start treating you like an expert in the area, and sometimes call on you to get restaurant recommendations. This is an easy task when you are not part of the guest list, send them to one of your favorite restaurants. But when you are also a member of the dinner party, there is a huge dilemma. Should you recommend a tried and tested restaurant that you know is good, or […]
Restaurant Review: Brasa Belltown
Saturday, September 15th, 2007Filed Under Belltown, Mediterranian | 11 Comments
Another favorite neighborhood restaurant of ours is Brasa – the Mediterranean restaurant on third avenue. Frankly, the food is one of the best around! The entrées are slightly pricy ($25-$30), but with Microsoft prime card, it is one entrée free for us. We seldom order out of the dinner menu though, the lounge menu is even more fabulous, the prizes are better, and much more choices (No prime card accepted there though) and we get to share 4-5 dishes, which […]
Restaurant Review: Cactus - Kirkland
Saturday, September 8th, 2007Filed Under Kirkland, Mexican, Southwestern, Spanish | 10 Comments
Cactus is one of my favorite restaurants in Kirkland. The cuisine is Mexican/Southwestern but the taste is very different from the regular Americanized Mexican fare we are used to. But I really go here for their Maragaritas! So, when all my lazy friends decided not to drive across the bridge to downtown to spend a girls night out, the only consolation was that the chouce of venue was Cactus.
Cactus is always lively on evenings, the crowd is not that young or hip. […]
After I wrote about Mistral in my Fave Five Seattle Restaurants post, I’ve been craving Mistral food. So for an early wedding anniversary celebration, instead of going to Herbfarm as planned, we headed over to Mistral to check if the food is as good as we remembered. We had it right, the food was as good or even better! Haute cuisine at its best.
During dinner, we did a cost-to-value analysis of Mistral versus some of our other favorite restaurants in town. The seven […]
Yum Yum Sup Sup - Seattle Fave Five
Thursday, May 24th, 2007Filed Under MeMe, Restaurant Reviews | 13 Comments
Amy of Nook and Pantry, fellow Seattle food blogger tagged me to write about my five favorite restaurants in Seattle. It sounds easy, but I live in a city which is truly a foodie heaven, how do I pick just five? I have way too many favorites. So after pondering this over for about a month, I decided that it is best to pick my favorite restaurants in five different categories, instead of picking my five absolute favorite restaurants, which might all fall in the […]
Restaurant Zoe - Third Time’s the Charm!
Saturday, May 19th, 2007Filed Under American, Belltown, French, Northwest | 10 Comments
I don’t believe in second chances; especially when it comes to restaurants. Once I’ve had a bad experience at a restaurant, it is very rare that I’d go back to that place again. With so many choices around, why should I? But there are exceptions to any rule, we finally had a great night at Zoe on our third try, glad I broke the rule on this one.
My first visit to Zoe was with a group of friends on a girls’ […]
Macrina Bakery - Belltown’s Best!
Friday, May 18th, 2007Filed Under American, Belltown, Breakfast/Brunch, Sandwiches/Subs | 13 Comments
There are so many things I love about living in Belltown. Being so close to Macrina Bakery is way up there in this list. This European style bakery and cafe is the place where Seattlites bring their out-of-town visitors to.They have the best breads in town, and the pastries are to die for! Macrina supplies bread to a bunch of restaurants in town, but there is nothing better than buying freshly made bread and pastries directly from source!
Macrina is not just a friendly […]
Crush - Another Sexy Restaurant in Madison
Sunday, April 29th, 2007Filed Under American, Madison Park/Madrona, Northwest | 3 Comments
I am so jealous of people staying at the Madison Valley, they have too many nice restaurants in the neighborhood! I still haven’t made my mind up as to which one I like better, Harvest Vine or Crush, we have been to both places many times, in fact we normally think of going to Harvest Vine, but if the place is too crowded, end up at Crush. That would make you think that Harvest Vine is our first choice, but […]
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