Like we do every week, today, we've put together a list of what we consider some worthy events over the next seven days. What's on your food and drink to-do list? more ›

CNN's Eatocracy blog is partnering up with esteemed Food & Wine magazine to add a new category to the magazine's prestigious Best New Chefs award. Traditionally, Food & Wine's editors anoint 10 chefs from across the country as their Best New Chefs, and on that front nothing will change. However adding the people's choice element obviously brings a new slant to the feature, as well as the opportunity for chefs and restaurants to use social media to help spread the word to encourage restaurant goers to vote. Food & Wine has identified 10 chefs from each region, and you can have until March 1 to vote for your favorite. more ›

We'd be remiss to not mention that Seattle Restaurant Week starts Sunday. Okay, so it actually runs more than a week (April 18-29), but if you take out the exempted Friday and Saturday, that leaves ten days (eight for restaurants closed on Mondays) of good deals. more ›

It was, one of those in attendance at the Paramount noted, a clusterfuck, the annual Seattle Weekly "Voracious Tasting" Food Awards. Maybe everyone was hoping to catch a glimpse of nominally faceless restaurant critic Jason Sheehan (though he's on YouTube here). more ›

We've reported about lots of amazing plates in Dishin', many coming from the monthly "Dish-Off" in Sound magazine. The Dish-Off concept continues, as two restaurants interpret a given song as food, but the venue has changed, with Sound magazine now merged with City Arts. And with that merger, chefs now prepare just one plate each instead of multi-course meals. more ›

Food: it's not just what's for dinner, it's serious tourism. more ›

Spur, Belltown (Sun-Thurs 5-7 p.m. / 11:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.) An unassuming looking place that has been nationally recognized for their creative and schizophrenic food menu, inspired by local farmers, butchers, and fisherman. From $3.50 for craft beer to their late night (11:30-1:30) $5 Rainier bottles with an order of shoestring fries, you can't go wrong with this hole-in-the-wall off Blanchard. more ›

Yesterday we were reading about the new speakeasy craze in the New York Times, and William Grimes listed a few of the first wave: "Their name is legion: the Varnish in Los Angeles; Bourbon & Branch in San Francisco; Speakeasy in Cleveland; the Violet Hour in Chicago; Manifesto in Kansas City, Mo.; Tavern Law in Seattle (scheduled to open later this month)." Who's so dialed-in they can make the Times without being open? Chef/owners Brian McCracken and Dana Tough of Spur. Tavern Law will be a part of Trace Lofts, on Capitol Hill. more ›

The stars were out last night in Seattle. The Rising Stars, that is. more ›

While we're all still reveling in the Academy Awards, the restaurant industry is honoring its finest as well. A slew of local chefs are semifinalists for James Beard Foundation restaurant and chef awards [pdf], with nominees to be announced on March 23. more ›

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