It’s the End of the World as We Know It, and We Feel Fine …
Because We Are at Our Favorite Spot Doom: The perfect excuse for our annual happy hour issue. This year we are adding a few more favorite spots to help us forget the doom of the unknown – or of the...
View ArticleMaking a Quick Exit: Places to dine when you need to keep it brief, or you...
It is February, the month of roses, chocolates and … uncomfortable blind dates. That got us at SWW thinking. Where do you meet up for a meal when you want to keep it brief? As lawyers, our time is...
View ArticleProgress in Peril: Western Washington Craft Distilleries
Craft distilleries have enjoyed a recent boom in Washington thanks to a 2008 law providing distilleries the right to serve and sell their products (much as wineries and breweries have been allowed for...
View ArticleFood Fairs of the 21st Century
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Century 21 Exposition, or what we locals refer to as the Seattle World’s Fair. The theme of the World’s Fair was imagining life in the 21st century and all...
View ArticleSearching for Your Next Meal via Digital Media
In this version of battling Seattle’s hunger games, we explore the various ways we network to discover where to eat next – and, of course, always looking for content for the next Dining Out column. The...
View ArticleConnections Generate New Dining Opportunities
Seattle boasts a myriad of excellent restaurants. Many of these fine restaurants do not spring up in a vacuum. Our restaurants and local culinary schools train and inspire enough experienced and...
View ArticleBBQ Sauce Battle: We Put Them to the Taste Test
Summer is peeking its head around the corner. Or is that fall? It is hard to tell in the Pacific Northwest, but we know, rain or no rain, it is time to dust off our grills and start cooking with fire...
View ArticleSeattle Offers Tasty Summer Coolers Sans the Buzz
There is nothing like a cool drink on a warm summer day. Frequently we think of drinking a mojito (or two) on a patio or sipping on white sangria, but Seattle has much to offer in terms of...
View ArticlePastamore: A Labor of Love
Handmade pasta, if done right, can make your eyes roll back in your head. Light, meltingly airy, the texture is an essential component of the flavor. Made, one dreams, by a doting Italian mother....
View ArticleFall Colors Turn Our Minds to Wine
Fall colors, leaves change and veraison, the onset of color of the grape berries, proceeds to full ripening. Harvest time. In our world view, fall color change is associated with Washington’s fantastic...
View ArticleProper Tea: Dim Sum Style
This month’s “Property” theme inspired the Dining Out team to think of “proper tea,” as in British high tea, and that led us to what we imagined is the Chinese version of proper tea – dim sum. Since we...
View ArticleHappy Holidays: Eat, Drink and Be Merry
It is that time of year again … time to celebrate with food, drink and last-minute ethics CLE credits. Many Seattle restaurants choose to purchase their food and drink from local, organic and...
View ArticlePower Breakfasts/Brunches: Are They Back?
Many of us are old enough to remember the power breakfasts of the 1980s. Meeting with your client or other business people in full suit or tie to get work done and to see and be seen at the height of...
View ArticleCreatures of Light and Darkness
Seattle and its inhabitants are now engaged in our annual laborious climb out of the deep darkness of winter solstice. Most days are gloomy, moist affairs in which we rise, go to work and commute home...
View ArticleDining Out with Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt
Sports fan. Fanatic. Madness. Some, such as Merriam-Webster, define fan as a shortened version of fanatic. Fanatic, others claim, comes from the Latin fanaticus, meaning “insanely but divinely...
View ArticleEating Your Fill at the Periodic Table
Just six elements – carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, calcium and phosphorus – make up almost 99 percent of the mass of a human body. In addition to those, humans require consumption of at least a...
View ArticleOysters: Dare to Down ‘em by the Dozen
From the neophyte to the avowed oyster lover, each of us at some point has stopped cold with wonder (or disgust), contemplating a raw oyster presented on the half shell, in all its quivering opalescent...
View ArticleTruckin’ on the Go!
This month, Schwabe’s Dining Out team literally dined out – outside that is – and on the go. We hit the street in search of food trucks offering delicious grub for those in a hurry. We made a few...
View ArticleWhen You Need the Best, Whom Do You Trust?
As summer starts in the Northwest, our thoughts turn to entertaining. Longer days, nice weather, and summer workloads help make this an excellent time for having people over. When looking for the best...
View ArticleDining Among the Lights on Broadway
George Benson’s song about trying to make it big says it all: “They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway.” But this isn’t Broadway in New York City. It’s Broadway on Seattle’s Capitol Hill, where...
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