mochi by the mysterious stranger Once again the Seattlest Flickr Pool makes us hungry. Must find food... Thanks for sharing!......

The Eastside Ben & Jerry’s has a conundrum. The downtown Kirkland development of Lake Street Place is forcing the store to vacate its waterfront location during the upcoming summer months. This puts an obvious damper in the store’s business plan. On numerous summer days, we have walked past a long line of ice cream addicts salivating out the Ben & Jerry’s door. How will the downtown Kirkland staple re-coup its forecasted summer losses? Find......

Ever since Cow's Meow closed, Seattle's been rich in gelato but poor in high-quality ice cream. (Sorry, Scoops, you're not really a substitute.) That's just changed. Molly Moon's Homemade Ice Cream opened in Wallingford this weekend, and while Seattlest missed the grand opening party on Saturday, we twisted a few arms in the family and stopped by on Sunday afternoon. The good part about going with two other people: we got to try 5......

First things first: Things are seriously awry in this town when a Taco-frickin'-Bell inspires multiple blog requiems when it closes, but Seattle's own Mix Ice Cream slips away into the night with nary a peep. That's right. We're going to have to go to Fremont or (shudder) Southcenter when we crave hand-mixed ice cream. They've got Cold Stones. But the Ave is now Mixless. We discovered the above-pictured sign Friday afternoon, when we stopped......

Photograph of investigation at Times Square recruiting center by kerfuffle & zeitgeist on Flickr Gothamist found that an explosive set off outside the Times Square army recruiting center may be similar to five past bombings in New York City.Seattlest worried when severed right feet and bottles of rat poison started washing up on local beaches.Shanghaiist was surprised by Bjork's rooting for Tibetan independence at her concert (see video), and the political fallout has only......

Did you forget to buy your beer-loving valentine something yesterday? The Rogue Chocolate Stout is the perfect way to say I love you, with a buzz. If you can appreciate both a good stout and a good piece of chocolate, then you should dig the combination of the two in this beer from Rogue Brewing in Oregon. The recipe for the Chocolate Stout was originally created for export to Japan, but it was later......

For some reason, though we are committed Capitol Hill brunchers, we had not discovered what wonders Monsoon has going on in their little 19th Ave E hideaway. Behold, the Monsoon brunch menu (pdf)! Last Tuesday night, Eric and Sophie Bahn, the chefs, invited a passel of foodie blogging folk over to try out the brunch menu. You had people like Matthew aka the rootsandgrubs guy, Angela from the Stranger -- and somehow we made the......

In previewing Monday night’s Macage Harybu Trio show, we admitted that we don’t know jazz from Shinola. What’s more, we really don’t like the stuff. (This stuff, anyway.) Truth be told, if Matt Cameron wasn’t one-third of the act, we wouldn’t have driven to Northgate’s intimate Seattle Drum School to see them play. We were surprised—and pleased—to find that Cameron (drums), Geoff Harper (upright bass), and Ryan Burns’ (keyboard) "take on [Thelonious] Monk’s classics"......

The best bet for tonight is the group effort/solo project Broken Social Scene presents Kevin Drew at the Moore. If you aren't familiar with the Canadian indie supergroup, get to learning. Saturday night brings the Queen tribute extravaganza Halloqueen at Chop Suey, while New Young Pony Club will have asses shaking at Nectar. They're best known for the Intel ad song "Ice Cream," but here's NYPC's cover of Technotronic's "Pump Up the Jam." If you're......

Roasting a pumpkin is perhaps one of the easiest culinary feats you will ever perform. However, the rewards of having at your disposal tasty, fresh, non-canned pumpkin puree are vast and enduring. Here’s how it goes. Take a sugar pie pumpkin (not a jack-o-lantern pumpkin, they are watery and less flavorful), break off the stem and hack it into two pieces. Scoop out the seeds and put the two halves face down on a baking......

We normally run from a restaurant that’s advertised as Chinese and American. Common sense, but it also dates back to a day in New Hampshire when we walked into “Judy’s (or whatever her name was) Chinese Restaurant” and were given dinner rolls and butter along with our menus. Shi’An Restaurant (12534 Lake City Way NE) is easy to run from. Its peeling-away paper sign barely covers the shingle of the former Baker’s restaurant. The inside......

Eaten: An onion burger and brick of fries. Do you see that whiteboard to the right there? That’s the straw poll that the Republican booth in an exhibition hall at the Puyallup Fair has been conducting during the event. Fred Thompson by a landslide. He has more than twice the votes of Rudy G., his closest challenger, and three times the votes of Romney who just won a Michigan straw poll, yet we barely know......

"Neighbors fear development" has become the Seattle equivalent of "dog bites man." Of course neighbors fear development. That's what they do. The latest brouhaha: Wedgwood is getting a four-story condo/retail complex in the middle of their one-story residential neighborhood. Hands are being wrung, meetings are being called, nimbyism is being denied, blogs are being written. We wouldn't have it any other way, really. It's Seattle. Neighbors fret. Since we left Wedgwood, we don't really have......

Blackberry week continues with Seattlest Rachael's blackberry sorbet recipe At 7:30 on Sunday morning--when we should have been doing something productive like sleeping--we slipped out of our apartment and walked a few paces up the street to an overgrown parking lot teeming with blackberries. We picked a few handfuls and returned home to make what would be the most knee-bucklingly amazing sorbet we’ve ever tasted. It was plain and simple and tasted exclusively of fresh......

We've been trying to keep abreast of the latest strike news via the networks as well as our singular Canadian television channel down here but both the quantity and quality of coverage has been most unsatisfying. So we took matters into our own hands. (Confidential to Metroblogging Vancouver: If you don't provide any sort of contact address, we cannot reach you for guest/expert commentary.) We contacted The Vancouverite because we believe in their attractive......

It was a week of bizarre, embarassing headlines at DCist. The trial of the local administrative law judge who sued his cleaners for $54 million over a pair of missing pants left everyone shaking their heads. Then the capital city was nearly brought to its knees, twice, by poop. Finally D.C. contemplated taking Vermont's place as a state and marveled at the GOP lessons learned from the "Macaca Moment." Due to some sad shootings......

Since Seattlest loves fake robots and Missed the Boat, we're totally holding hands with this video right now. It's love. Shut the light on your way out, please. It looks like Apple's got some kind of "make your own video" thing going on and this is one of the entries. It's by artist/painter/cardboard-robot-bringer-to-lifer Bill Barminski We also dug this Ah Ha!-inspired entry, this animated concert poster one and we're pretty sure we actually have......

You don't need us to tell you what it's like out there right now. But you could tell Seattlest what you've been doing now that we're all San Diego temperatures and whatnot--drop it in the comments if you're the sharing type. In the meantime, we hit the streets with our camera cruised Flickr photos tagged "Seattle" that weren't in our already glorious Seattlest pool, to see what people have been provoked to do by that......

Most know it as a cute green glob on the corner of the sushi platter, many from mistakenly putting a large first taste in their mouths without realizing it packs a potent punch. Unlike chili pepper, which burns the tongue, wasabi strikes the sinus cavity. But it’s actually protecting you, historically used as an anti-bacterial for the raw fish that often accompanies it. Some says it’s offensive to add more than the sushi chef smears......

As the Seattle Traveler reminds us, today's the 27th anniversary of Mount St. Helens' eruption back in 1980. We remember the eruption, though not the particular day -- we were living in Wisconsin at the time, so we didn't have to shovel any ash out of our gutters. But we know we discussed it in science class. Any Seattleites want to chime in with their memories, or are all the locals sick of talking about......

What fun! Another restaurant promotion! This one's called New Urban Eats, and it features 20 relatively new places offering three-course dinners for thirty bucks. Sunday through Thursday, throughout May except (wonder why?) Mother's Day...the one day nobody should eat out but everybody does. Sure, there are plenty of perfectly lovely places that serve dinner for less than $30. But the NUE restaurants are kinda fancy, kinda pricey, kinda hot. In some cases, very fancy, very......

Well, sorry we couldn't let you know earlier. But, Seattlest had the pleasure of attending another incredible beer dinner this weekend. This one took place at The Collins Pub in downtown seattle and featured the impressive beers of New Belgium Brewing from Colorado; presented by the big brew man himself, head brewer Peter Bouckaert and company. If you do not know The Collins, it is a wonderful pub just on the edge of Pioneer......

It seems like, all across the network, folks were up to no good. Maybe it was all the green beer from last weekend... Gothamist spent the week writing about New Yorkers behaving badly: at the post office, at the Garden, and at the fertility clinic. Calvin Klein may not be misbehaving, but he's just a little dirty, and in a completely different way than some NYC kitchens. SFist had its share of misbehave-rs, too,......

On the phone, Jim Haynes invites us to come for dinner on Sunday, something he's been saying to visitors for decades. By now, well over 100,000 people--most of them total strangers--have accepted his invitation. Mostly, but not exclusively, American visitors. In a not-particularly-fashionable neighborhood in the southeast quadrant of Paris, a high metal gate swings open. We walk into a courtyard and enter a high-ceilinged artist's studio. Jim is on a stool next to the......

Except for a four year stint in Chicago our friend Mike has lived in Seattle his entire life. During that time he has come to some well reasoned conclusions about fast food in this city. He shared them with us, and now we will share them with you: Dick's should have a special lane reserved specifically for people who want ice cream, and ice cream should not be available to people who are not in......

When we were small, our mom would occasionally treat us to an afternoon at the wonderfully over-the-top Queen Mary tea room, a “theatrical Victorian fantasy land” (according to their website) that serves high tea complete with mismatched bone china tea cups and piles of goodies. While there were many things we liked about high tea--scones, clotted cream, crumpets--what we loved was the lemon curd. Powerfully tangy with a mellow, unctuous texture, curd showcases all of......

Editor's Note: Earlier this year, Seattlest Clint's favorite coffee shop was shuttered. What followed was a series of indignities that should chill the heart of any coffee-loving Seattleite. By which we mean, any Seattleite. We present Clint's harrowing story in five parts, which began yesterday and will continue all week. We drink coffee. Black, no room. Occasionally, with an espresso float—a shot in the dark. We don't do steamed milk, blends, or anything with ice......

News from Tampa that a culinary team from Swedish Hospital has won the national championship at the HFM cook-off . (That's the National Society for Healthcare Foodservice Management, dontcha know.) Swedish had already won the annual Ivy Award from the trade mag Restaurants & Institutions two years ago for serving the best, er, institutional food in the country. Now before you start snickering, ask yourself where it's written that sick people have to eat cold,......

Of course there are both upsides and downsides to eating at Veil. But since there's no question there are more upsides than down, we’ll start with the downs: Veil is too loud. Every gorgeous surface is hard, and even on a half-empty Tuesday night, we had to lean our heads together to hear our conversation over everyone else's. But that's it. That’s the only real downside. So the question is whether we can live with......

It's sad that when you alert people to a restaurant closing, the pool of people who care is likely small. However, the buzz of 15th Avenue is that Kozak's has closed, sold to the folks who bring Fremont the Nectar Lounge. (Thanks to Liberty for the tip.) We had a neighborly chat with the Nectarines about their plans, and they say in 4-6 weeks (about the same time as it takes to get your......