In the wake of a brutal tussle between car and bicycle last weekend, it's good that New Belgium Brewing's Tour de Fat, the "traveling celebration of all things bicycle," arrives in town on Saturday, opposite the carbon-spewing, combustion engine worship-fest that is Seafair, what with the supersonic jets and souped-up motorboats. So for those who favor pedal-power over horsepower, you can show up at Gas Works Park at 9 a.m. to register yourself and your......

Seattlest and The Stranger have had disagreements of opinion concerning the quality or fucking lack of quality at certain Seattle taco trucks. In this week's print Stranger, though, there is a statement of fact regarding the highly-hyped tamales at the Rancho Bravo truck in Wallingford that cannot be disputed, and should be highlighted: They never have tamales at Rancho Bravo. Seattlest has taken to ordering them defensively, hopefully, and as an add-on but never......

Ever since Cow's Meow closed, Seattle's been rich in gelato but poor in high-quality ice cream. (Sorry, Scoops, you're not really a substitute.) That's just changed. Molly Moon's Homemade Ice Cream opened in Wallingford this weekend, and while Seattlest missed the grand opening party on Saturday, we twisted a few arms in the family and stopped by on Sunday afternoon. The good part about going with two other people: we got to try 5......

The Taco Bravo Rancho Bravo truck in Wallingford has the second best tacos al pastor that Seattlest has ever had. A trip to Mexico a few weeks ago provided the third best. The absolute best came from a burrito place just outside of Chicago circa 1997, but details of that era are sketchy at best and the experience may have expanded in the remembering. Somehow we still haven't had the "real" al pastor that is......

A Wallingford family had the most unpleasant surprise of their lives when they awoke Wednesday morning to find their beloved family dog shot by an arrow. Liam O'Hara's Mastiff, Conan, was seriously injured after one of the three-pronged razor arrows impaled him in the chest. Other arrows hit O'Hara's home and the dog door. Seattle Police and Animal Control are now looking into the incident. Whoever took aim at Conan had to do so......

As we promised last week, Seattlest played the quiz at Kate's Pub last night. Our team, Eclectic Boogaloo, ended up winning the pot, although it took a tiebreaker round to get there. (Sorry, Ozzy's Outcasts. Good game.) Where & when: Kate's Pub in Wallingford, at 45th and Latona. Officially the quiz time is 8:00, but rumor has it that it usually starts later. Last night, it got started at about 9:00 and finished about 10:20.......