We were walking down Broadway at lunchtime trying to decide on the perfect uncrowded, sun-soaking lunchspot, when it came to us. Actually, it was printed on a sign that advertised La Puerta's lunch specials. That's when we remembered that La Puerta has an upstairs deck overlooking Broadway -- and that their food is resolutely mediocre, virtually guaranteeing light occupancy. How right we were. Just one couple was sitting outside, discussing a California "growing" operation. We......

Until today, Belltown was the last neighborhood in Seattle without a pho parlor. No longer. Black Bottle, that estimable watering hole for the the Under 30 set, is now serving an elegant pho made with beef brisket that's braised to medium-rare, then roasted to order. The lean and fatty bits--and it's a huge amount of meat--meet up in the broth, and pho, of course, is all about the broth: beef bones, star anise, rock......

The e-mails were flying fast and furious late this morning at the virtual Seattlest HQ about the new Dick's fries, which made us start thinking about lunch, naturally. Although our stomach is strong and we can put just about anything in it without losing it later on, we tend to stay away from Dick's simply because we always feel like we need a shower afterwards. After a night of heavy drinking, their fries are welcome,......

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Lunch today, walked down to a nearby grocery/deli for the best sandwich in the world (Pike Place Special). Who takes our order? Mr. Derek Fudesco of The Cave Singers, PGMG, etc... We say, Hey, you're Derek right? He says, Yeah. We say, Loving The Cave Singers, great album. He smiles real big and says, Thanks. Couple minutes later, we're walking by with our beverage. Derek says, Jack? We reply, Yes? (And we're thinking, Holy shit,......

This fall we are combining our love of the football and our dream of learning to cook. On Sunday morning, following a trip to a local farmer’s market/major supermarket chain, we will be preparing a meal from the city of the Seahawks opponent. Then at halftime we will throw our badly burned hands in the air and make hot dogs. We spent five months living in Philadelphia, and during that time two-thirds of our meals......

We're not very strong on commas -- maybe that should be "Our Post About Lunch, With Elizabeth Hurley"? Oh well! We had the chicken ciabatta ($9.95) at the Nordstrom's Grill. That's the lunch part. Wait, we had a cup of decaf, too. On our way in, we noticed all these people standing around the cosmetics department, not moving, which annoyed us because we were a little hypoglycemic and they were between us and our food.......

Over in Ballard, Archie McPhee sells a cheerful Lunch Lady action figure for $9.95. Tell the disgruntled lunch ladies in Chicago, who are demanding respect from a school system that pays them peanuts (well, $10.46 an hour) and expects them to serve slop to thousands of kids. "We're looking at each other like, 'I wouldn't eat that.' We wouldn't give our kid that at home," one lunch lady told the Chicago Sun-Times. No wonder that......

In Chicago, the food police are throwing people in jail for serving foie gras because it comes from obese geese. Elsewhere, they're trying to get rid of junk food in schools because it causes the kids to become obese. Meantime, there's a new, flexible tube that's supposed to make gavage (French for "fattening up") less painful. We say put the damn hose on the vending machines down at the high school. Pilot program at Garfield,......

Seattlest gets around. Sometimes we eat in Ballard, and sometimes we make it all the way down to West Seattle. Thursday night, we were at the opening of Blackbird Bistro, a new restaurant right by the Admiral Theatre (unlike an identically named venue in Chicago, this Admiral shows movies, rather than naked ladies). For the time being, Blackbird will be serving lunch and dinner, with weekend brunch debuting sometime next month. They're trying to promote......

Werner Herzog and David Cronenberg---the names alone are enough to make a crowd of film fanatics gasp. That's exactly why local den of cinema-geekery Seattle International Film Festival Group is spotlighting each filmmaker's work with screenings next week at the Seattle Art Museum; first Herzog and then Cronenberg. The Herzog series features four of his films: The Wild Blue Yonder and Lessons of Darkness on Tuesday the 8th and Wheel of Time and The White......

A post-apocalyptic short film will be shot in Seattle this coming Sunday and they're looking for extras in the future goth vein. Where does one shoot a post-apocalyptic short film? Microsoft Campus? Seattle Center? Lower Madison? No, no, no. Rainier Brewery! This is an entry for The Science Fiction Museum's Science Fiction Short Film Festival which is accepting submissions through December. The unfortunate name of the production is "Knuth: City of the Future Lost." -......

Do you consider Tillamook cheddar in your grilled cheese sandwich "settling"? Do you forgo cream cheese in your jalapeno poppers and incorporate fromage blanc from Cowgirl Creamery instead? Have you ever dreamed of personally feeding Tom Douglas? You're just the kind of amateur chef Beecher's is looking for in their Handmade Cheese Recipe Contest. (Note that the eese has to be handmade, not just the recipe.) Blessed are these cheesemakers, for if you concoct the......

Who are the 11:30pm girls? What: Kimchi Bistro When: Wed, April 13, 8pm Kimchi Bistro is so good that we wanted to keep it to ourselves forever. But after going there for the umpteenth time earlier this week, we knew it was wrong to be so selfish. The bistro is hidden in the back of the Broadway Alley, on Broadway at John (the mall where Hana Sushi is). They don’t serve any alcohol or dessert......