Celebrate Hot Cakes' first year with half-price molten chocolate cakes, $5 milkshakes, and more. Starred for the $6 “special boozy birthday cake shake,” which would be the best-ever show name for a fluffy white Pomeranian.
Are you appalled by Monsanto’s sinister efforts to dominate agricultural systems around the world? So are lots of other people! Show your solidarity at today’s march.
Learn how to make great foods with all-time-great chef Bruce Naftaly (of the late, great Le Gourmand, who is also really nice), with eating and drinking included. Chef shouts, via email: "FIVE COURSES! HOW TO DO IT! AND WINE WINE WINE!" $75.
In honor of National Hamburger Day, which very appropriately coincides with Memorial Day, Lil Woody’s wants to give you a free burger. For FREE. Go and get you one. Free.
Back in the day when most Copper River salmon was destined to be overcooked and encased in tin, local seafood hero John Rowley decided he could do better. Thirty years later, Kevin Davis makes a celebratory dinner. $65 plus tax and gratuity.
It’s a dinner paired with Bordeaux-style blends from Yakima Valley’s DuBrul Vineyard, hosted by winemaker Kerry Shiel. $150 plus tax and gratuity.
The Quilliascut Education Fund is dedicated to cultivating education for a sustainable future. Show your support while enjoying a lovely dinner at the Corson Building. You'll also hear how "Quilliascut" is properly pronounced. $200.
This is probably a lot like your high school prom (not that you went)—formal wear, weird decorations, DJs cranking make-out jams—but this time everyone knows the punch is spiked and the “chaperones” are actually trying to get you drunk. Plus, no curfew! Irony is fun!
Among the joys of summer, a chilled rosé ranks high. Rejoice in the sun’s return (um, please?!) with live music and celebratorialy priced oysters on the half-shell, French street food, and glasses of rosé on Marché's lovely patio. $3 tastes/$6 glasses of rosé, $2 oysters, food $5 and up.
Tavolàta's monthly Sunday Feast can be a good deal, with prices varying depending on the star ingredient/menu—though since they're served family-style at the 26-seat communal table, you might want to bring a bunch of friends to insulate you from people who use the word "foodie." Upcoming feasts: Northern Italian, Feb. 10; Strictly Seafood, March 10; Roasted Duck, April 21; Suckling Pig, May 19; Garden Vegetables and Wild Mushrooms, June 9. Price varies.
Celebrate Bastille Day at Le Pichet—this is the place to be if you cannot make it to France today.
“Seattle's second-best cocktail lounge” celebrates 6,000 consecutive days in business by offering all its food and drink items for a mere $6 (!). $6 food/drinks.
Seattle Greendrinks has been “convening and growing Seattle’s environmental community” through weekly get-togethers and special events for 10 years, and they’re celebrating in sustainable style with food, drinks, a thrift-shop-themed costume contest, and a “silent disco dance party.” BYOC (bring your own cup). $15/adv, $20/door.
Love wine but hate human slavery? Join SOZO Friends winery and Rescue: Freedom International for a wine-pairing dinner with a portion of the proceeds benefiting education for children liberated from slavery. $150 plus tax and gratuity.
Ethan Stowell, the man behind a bunch of restaurants (you know), hosts a charity cook-off in which you get to try 117-ish kinds of barbecue made by pro chefs and notable amateurs, plus lots of beer. Proceeds benefit the Fetal Health Foundation. $50.
The Stranger’s reviews of Cafe Nordo’s experimental dinner-theater-that-isn't-dinner-theater have been mixed. Thadius Van Landingham III thought the dishes uneven and the ambitions unmet in the company’s first show; Bethany Jean Clement found one of last year’s shows long but fairly rewarding, while Paul Constant delighted in the full-body pleasure of another. This spring, a modern spaghetti western. Will it be good, bad, and/or ugly—who can say? $130-$160 for season's membership, $600 for Chef's Table.
Enjoy loads of rosé and white wines (plus snacks, too) from more than 30 Washington wineries in the gorgeous Sound-side setting of Ray's Boathouse at this fundraiser for Save Our Salmon. $35.
Join Jim Drohman (Le Pichet, Cafe Presse) for a cooking demonstration as part of the market's Summer Sundays Chef Demos. Chow editor Bethany Jean Clement says, "Jim Drohman is great, and we should all be lucky enough to learn to cook a thing from him. You can quote me on that." Attendees get to taste Drohman's dish after the demonstration. FREE.
Field trip! It's the Cascade Country Cook-Off, with championship competitions in the arenas of barbecue, chili, and dutch oven!
More than thirty-five Washington wineries, breweries, and distilleries, several bands, and a handful of food trucks (including Monte Cristo and Marination Mobile) are putting on a fundraiser for Food Lifeline. $35.
Over thirty-five Washington wineries, breweries, and distilleries, six bands, and a handful of food trucks (including Marination Mobile and Monte Cristo) are putting on a fundraiser for Food Lifeline. $35.
The Seattle Polish-American community gets festive at Seattle Center with jazz, folk art, an exhibition of Polish film posters, a beer garden stocked with Polish beer, and Polish food galore. There will be sausages. Free.
It's baaaaaack, for the sixth year in a row! Burning Beast—the world's funnest, most delicious, meatiest feast in a field, with whole beasts cooked over open flames by Seattle's best chefs—is set for Sunday, July 21. Burning Beast benefits and takes place at the very worthy, very lovely Smoke Farm, out in the country an hour north of Seattle. It will be hot and sunny (probably), and there is a river to swim in. Dear lord, speed us to the day of Burning Beast VI! TBA.
Seattle's quaint and WASPish sibling celebrates nothing in particular with lots of wine, food, and fun in Mariana Park. Expect live music, a grill-off, hands-on art exhibits, a "dog modeling contest," and a Tasting Garden filled with Washington wines. All proceeds benefit the Hope Heart Institute to help fight heart disease, so you can indulge your gluttony and work off bad karma at the same time. Starred for a good cause. $25 in advance, $30 at door (includes glass and 10 tasting tokens), $2 per additional token, $15 for non-tasting admission.
Zut alors! Café Presse vous invitons à parler la meilleure langue du monde tous les deux mercredis à Café Presse à la Table Française. Seattle Language Academy vous donnera un formateur pour chaque cours, et les étudiants de français de tous les niveaux sont invités à nous joindre. Songez à tous les beaux gens que vous y rencontrerez! Chouette! Et: C'est gratuit. Free.