Soup season has officially begun, and we couldn't be more excited. The simplicity of throwing all of your favorite ingredients into one meal, and the quick and easy cleanup from cooking everything in a single pot is enough to keep a smile on our face all winter. Especially when you're full and drowsy and the last thing on your mind is doing the dishes. more ›

Belltown's buffet is nothing if not cosmopolitan; just look at the stains on Seattlest's napkin this week! more ›

So we're cruising Craigslist, as is our wont, and there this ad for a reporter for the Seattle Courant? UW journalism grad Keith Vance "quietly"--perhaps too quietly?--launched the site sometime the past few weeks. Vance writes a bunch of stories about Obama and offers links to the P-I, which will likely be broken in another 55 or so days. But the recipe for potato cheddar chowder? That one's a keeper. more ›

Seattlest has been obsessed with soups lately (it's not quite cold enough for stew). Today we tucked into Than Bros. chicken pho (small, $4.75). Tuesday it was Von's Three Meat Soup (a hearty, verging-on-stew bowlful, $6.95). more ›

While Seattlest's Katelyn has a healthy obsession for the perfect sandwich, we have similar devotion to finding the most delicious fall soup. In fact, the one saving grace of the imminent fall and rainy days is that it is soup weather. When it starts to rain in Seattle, our thoughts turn to soups of all kinds--pho, creamy butternut squash, Cafe Presse's soup of the moment, anything and everything on Hopvine's soup list, and the old delicious standard: a bowl of tomato soup and grilled cheese. We can't wait for October, when the already-mentioned beloved nectar that is Hopvine's home-made soups becomes available in the Southwest Pumpkin variety...a soup which we may be guilty of having dreamt of. more ›

Last week, we described a soup-er stay at Alderbrook Resort & Spa. This week, we met Soup-erman—a chef who really loves to make soup. As we’ve turned the corner into summer and the weather is warming (at least a bit), what is it about soup that’s captured our attention? more ›

Now that the weather is finally get warmer, it's time to plan some summertime drinking. Enter The Saint, the new tequila bar/Mexican cantina from Havana owner Quentin Ertel. What was once the ugly (and scary) Wing Dome behemoth is now the soothingly sky blue building at the corner of Olive and Bellevue. Ertel describes his latest social club as:

a tequila bar that would appeal to afficionados of the good life; a place where the grapefruit juice is always squeezed fresh and the pace is a little slower; where the cocktails are built from a library of fine tequilas; where the cocina bustles with cooks making food from scratch. A place where a little bit of extra love goes into everything, an homage to the time-honored process of making one of the finest spirits on earth.

Seattlest has that nasty cough and cold that seems to be making the rounds in town. Our best friend was kind enough to stop by the store and pick up some soup to try and nurse us back to health. Returning from the Safeway on 15th Ave on Capitol Hill, our best friend brought us Safeway's Signature soup that he'd bought today, which read "Best if Served by December 06, 2007." In our deliriousness we did a double take, wondering if we had transported back a few months with our fever, but no. Safeway on 15th is selling soup that should have been discarded last year. more ›

The dispiriting weather forecast--below, via Google. more ›

Back in 1981, Mike Nichols directed a famous version of at the Lincoln Center in NYC, starring Steve Martin and Robin Williams. We recall that at some point in college, we saw an interview with Steve Martin about that production, and Martin said something memorably apt: "We decided to serve the comedy of the play, because the ideas would serve themselves." more ›

is what you get when you lose even that. more ›

North of Seattle, in Lynnwood, is the restaurant Kirirom. Lurking low in the shadows of the big box stores, the chain restaurants, and the Alderwood Mall, Kirirom means “mountain of joy” and is a national park in Cambodia. more ›

Chicken broth-based soups are some of the ultimate comfort foods, and are especially good when sick. We love them all, from matzo ball soup (a.k.a. “Jewish penicillin”) to tortilla soup to good ol’ Campbell’s Chicken Noodle Soup (or, better yet, Chicken & Stars – our childhood favorite, though we shudder to think about the sodium content). more ›

Yes, technically it’s spring, but here in Seattle temperatures are still bouncing from arctic to downright balmy and almost everyone we know (including yours truly) is sick, so we’re going out on a limb and declaring Seattle safely inside the Chicken Soup Zone. more ›

More to the point, the menu (pdf) alerts us to Chicken Noodle Soup with Matzo Dumplings. Holy shii--! as they say on TV. They also sell wine. We're sold. They're at 17th and Galer, just east of the north end of Volunteer Park. more ›

--Please, Ballmer, tell us again about Microsoft, Linux and intellectual property. more ›

With the first feel of fall and temperatures struggling to get out of the 60's, Seattlest had a hankering for a hearty soup. Something healthy to stop the sniffles ahead of a cross-country flight the next day. more ›

The Hawks' own Matt Hasselbeck and his (not un-foxy) mom will join with the man who bested him in Super Bowl XL, Ben Roethlisberger, and longtime soup pitchman Donovan McNabb, for a new season of Chunky Soup commercials. Yes, someone's already posited that there's a Chunky Soup curse. more ›

One of the most puzzling developments of the past hundred years is how the Three Stooges became more popular than the vastly comically superior Marx Brothers. To see what we mean, spend an hour hitting your friends on the head while exclaiming "Why I oughta," then head over to the Grand Illusion and watch the Marx Brother's 1933 classic Duck Soup. more ›

Seattlest isn’t prone to heartburn, but every time we leave Crow, Lower Queen Anne’s sexy, shadowy jewel box of a restaurant, we feel a little twinge. And no amount of Pepcid will help, because really, it’s just plain, ugly jealousy. We want what Lower Queen Anne has. Though this city isn’t short on restaurants or wildlife, we think it’s only fair that Seattle have a Crow in every neighborhood. more ›

Seattlest's favorite cooking show doesn't star Rachael Ray or Iron Chef Morimoto. No, we're partial to America's Test Kitchen, the public television sibling of our favorite cooking magazine, Cook's Illustrated. more ›

Seattlest likes to think of itself as an optimist, give or take a few necessary lapses. We’re generally a happy, hopeful bunch. But let’s face it: winter is well on its way; Harriet Miers, wherever she is, is still wearing that terrifying eye makeup; and on top of it all, there’s the flu. Unlike the majority of news sources, we’re not talking about this avian business (although that’s apparently around the corner too), but rather the annual garden-variety stuff—the sneezing, coughing, hacking, and gagging; the aching, sweating and general nastiness. more ›

Lunching downtown can be a grim, wallet-emptying experience. Seattlest would like to save you from all that. more ›

It was cramped in there, and I was surrounded by commanding walls, both black and lush red. Despite its petite size, it wasn’t hot, even though 80 people must have been stuffed into the place. With the exception of two men, one of whom was the director, everyone else was a woman. more ›