Results tagged “madisonpark”

We know how it is. When we used to spend our afternoons taking some sun at Madison Park, we only left our spot--grudgingly--for water or ice cream. That's prime real estate! Luckily an entrepreneur has felt your pain. Now you only have to walk to the top of the grassy knoll to purchase an assortment of ice cream bars, potato chips, and beverages.

Then we arrived.

What? What'd we say?

You know how sometimes it seems like you read about the same damn thing every time you turn around? Like Britney. Or Ron Paul. Or the Sonics. It's going to happen again this week, and the name you'll be hearing is Txori. (Think "chirp," like a birdie.) It's the new Basque café (more accurately, a pintxos bar) in Belltown owned by Joseba Jimenez de Jimenez and his wife, Carolin Messier de Jimenez, the couple who own Harvest Vine in Madison Park. Well, this is their week.

This weekend's highlight for Geoff will be a Brewer's Dinner at The Collins Pub held by Hair of the Dog Brewery from Portland. 6 courses paired with 6 beers, plus a few special releases to boot. As a Bears and now semi-Seahawks fan, he'll be hoping that Brett Favre breaks a hip during Saturday's Seahawks game at Lambeau Field.

Seattlest wanders.

Starbucks, give 'em credit, is able to do more than one thing at a time. Mark of maturity, that. The papers are full of its plans to expand into every corner of the globe; this week it's Russia. On the domestic front, meantime, they're promoting a slogan to follow up on last year's "Geography is a Flavor." The new catchphrase: "Coffee is Culinary."

Emboldened by our satisfactory sushi outing at Nishino, but wanting something a little more Japanese (the menu had that “pan-Asian” thing going, and there wasn’t a Japanese customer or server in sight) and a little less pretentious (two words: Madison Park), we made our way to Kisaku in Tangletown (near Green Lake).

Following last week's swanky sushi soiree in Madison Park, it was time for us to get back to our roots. We wanted something more worker-class. Inspired by Seattlest's spirited discussion of fish and chips, we decided to go to Little Chinook's at Fishermen's Terminal.

Still in the fish club of sorts, we snuck into Nishino at the very end of the November 25 for $25 promotion.

We're serving Bastille Day cold, apparently, this Sunday at Seattle Center. In Paris, a brigade of activist clowns is parading after the usual militaristic tomtommery. No word on whether there will headbutting.

Seattlest is depressed. We're beginning to think that finding great pizza in Seattle is akin to finding a great bottle of wine at QFC. It's probable, but such discoveries are to be few and far between.

Alright, yesterday when we mentioned the abundant life occupying the waters at area beaches we didn't mean to come off as wildlife-phobes. Herons, sturgeon, hell, harbor seals: we'd love to come across that kind of beach life. Even jellyfish are fun to spot in the shallow water as long as you can avoid stepping on them. Anything with "fecal" in its name we're not that into, though, and ditto that for random floating corpses in the water.

Who are the 11:30pm girls?

It's our never-ending quest. It's our Holy Grail, our white whale. Once again, Seattlest pits local commuity business against local community business in a cheap and (some would say) tawdry display of fabricated drama.

With a win today, the UW Husky men's basketball team will advance to the NCAA Tournament's round of eight for the first time in school history. Louisville, probably the best team the Huskies have seen this year, stands in their way. Here are the three things Seattlest will be keeping tabs on during the game:

This year the first day of the NCAA tournament occurs on St. Patrick's Day, so if there was ever a time to watch the games in a bar, this is it. Unfortunately, neither the Notre Dame Fighting Irish nor the Tulane Green Wave made the tourney. But our hometown Huskies did. In fact, they are one of the favorites. Their first-round game is today at noon. The tournament's first games begin at 9 am, and several local bars are opening early to accomodate basketball and liquor fans: