For all of you figuring out where to spend--or not spend--your weekend hours, Eater National points out the fact that Yelp has added "Hipster" as an official description of the ambience of certain bars, restaurants and coffee shops where the pants are skinny, the irony runs high and the facial hair is artfully groomed. more ›

Vegetarians! Serious Eats has determined, through a rigorous taste-testing, that Seattle's own Thanh Son tofu is the best tasting soy-curd around. more ›

The NFT app offers some basic features to find content based on your location for restaurants, nightlife, shopping, etc. You can drill down by category or neighborhood, but only search on the category level. The neighborhood descriptions are pretty accurate, although a little pretentious at times ("White City = You Dirty Rat" & "Lower Queen Anne = Living in their white bread world"). Beyond that, it just doesn't DO very much. Most of the listings just provide the basic address, category, google map direction link, and occasionally an editor's note. It's possible the information provided might be useful when you're traveling, but then you'd have to shell out the expense for every version, vs. yelp's free app that covers everywhere. Silly, really. You're better off keeping your $4.99. more ›

Friday night, in the midst of gorging ourselves on approximately one shit-ton of deep-fried food, conversation turned to pimps and hos, as is our wont. Our host for the evening, a kindly trucker, started gushing about downtown men's boutique Leroy's, which has somehow escaped our attention up till now, even though it's right at 2nd and Pike. The following ridiculous description from Yelp convinced us that we must drop by this fine establishment posthaste. more ›

The sad--or happy--fact is that a lot of Capitol Hill drinkers are still the dark about Redwood's existence. It rose triumphant from the metaphorical ashes of a Duds 'n' Suds laundromat, and offers home cookin' worth blogging home about, plus the sweet potato fries which are de rigeur these days. more ›

Damn you, Cafe Stellina. In the year and a half the restaurant's been open in its new space (the Piston & Ring Building, the same as La Spiga, on 12th Ave just before Union), their business hours have thwarted our attempts to eat there on at least five occasions. more ›