With 33,000 independent pizzeras across the country, you know there's got to be a magazine like Pizza Today out there (with a blog called TheHotSlice, even). Well, there's a giant 11-page article this week naming the country's best indy: Seattle's own Tutta Bella. (Downside: best chain was Domino's.) more ›

Sometimes we just want a slice of pizza. Not a pie. Not a square. Not a round. We’re talking a slice – one that you can grab with a hand, fold inward, and then tilt downward to watch the grease drip to the paper plate before you take that precious first bite more ›

Kid-friendly restaurants have a children's menu with macaroni and cheese and other toddler staples. They welcome families and have more than one high chair and booster seat. Most have crayons and some have craftier stuff, like Tutta Bella's wiki stix. That is usually as far as the accommodation goes--unless you frequent suburban junk food hell-holes like Chuck E. Cheese. more ›

Friday evenings, Columbia City Cabaret takes over the Columbia City Theatre for some adult-oriented hijinks. Emceed by Tamara the Trapeze Lady (who also performs), the program changes from week to week, so its performance history already includes various singers and bands, burlesque artists, drag queens, aerialists, and probably a juggler of something. more ›

Seattlest received word a few weeks back that at least eight employees - mostly wait-staff - at the Wallingford branch of popular Italian eatery Tutta Bella quit their jobs in a span of a few weeks, with some quitting in the dramatic walk-off/no-show fashion. Our source claimed on the condition of anonymity that the restaurant’s tip-pooling compensation plan short-changed the servers, allegedly giving most of the tips to four salaried managers. A week later, corroborative testimony came in from a second source, also on the condition of anonymity, who had also just quit the wait-staff position. more ›

Last Friday, Seattlest spent an enjoyable evening at the Columbia City Theatre. We were there to see the new Black Box Opera production, “Sondheim, Newman and Weill.” It’s a cabaret show made up of songs by, not surprisingly, Stephen Sondheim, Randy Newman and Kurt Weill. more ›

Pizza sucks in Seattle. Feel free to post your own obscure favorite in the comments or simply let it pass. Sure, there are a few highlights here or there around the city where something resembling an actual pizza can be obtained, but the overall quality of the city's pizza is piss poor. Here's a tip: If the crust is wet, it sucks. Wallingford, oddly, has a few ok places, though. The Wallingford Pizza House (previously The Chicago Pizza House hint hint at the writer's hometown) is...so-so. Northlake Tavern and Pizza House is a couple clicks above that on the evolutionary ladder. Very edible. Obviously we're struggling to establish a whole lot of pizza credibility in the neighborhood. Enter Tutta Bella, though. more ›