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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
City / Chow "Off-Menu" at My Canh Restaurant on MLK
Posted by Eli Sanders on Tue, May 15, 2012 at 6:00 AM
Via the SPD blotter:
Narcotics detectives seized hundreds of marijuana plants from a south Seattle restaurant Monday morning after a fire at the business led investigators to a grow operation hidden in the business’s basement.
The pictures are worth a look, as is the video. "The owners of the restaurant should be able to remodel," KING 5 reports. "However, they first have to talk to police, who are looking for them and so far haven't found them."
Monday, May 14, 2012
Chow / TV / Teh Internets "Law & Order & Food"
Posted by David Schmader on Mon, May 14, 2012 at 2:51 PM
A Tumblr about the intersection of all three, brought to my attention by Slog Tipper Mary.
(Weird fact: I totally remember where this one lands, in the classic Elizabeth Ashley-defends-Laetrile episode, with Lt. Van Buren's pre-chowdown line being, "You got anything you'd think twice before cutting off?" Law & Order addiction is no joke.)
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Chow Dear Restaurants Who Carry Tabasco as Your Only Hot Sauce
Posted by Grant Brissey on Sat, May 12, 2012 at 11:05 AM
You're doing it wrong. Tabasco's most substantial quality is that it is made in the United States of America. Otherwise, it's a bland and tired way to spice your meal. You need to also carry, at the very least, the superior-in-every-way Tapatío sauce—it's also made in the United States of America, has a fuller flavor, and is a bargain anywhere it's sold. What's more, it's made in the West, and we all know the West is the Best.
Friday, May 11, 2012
Chow One of My Favorite Seattle Pastry Chefs Has Joined the Hot Cakes Team
Posted by Megan Seling on Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:56 AM

- Kelly O
- This is Lucy Damkoehler. Look at how much love is in her eyes as she gazes at that dripping chocolate.
But Hot Cakes is so much more than the name suggests. There will also be "classic desserts (think bread pudding, crème brûlee, salted butter toffee), cocktails, and boozy milkshakes." Yum!
And the news gets even better! Lucy Damkoehler, formerly of Mistral Kitchen, has joined their team as kitchen manager. I wrote a love letter to Lucy's desserts here. She's wonderful. She makes innovative desserts out of classic flavors. I can't wait to see (and by "see" I mean "eat") what she brings to their menu. Now, instead of whining about yet ONE MORE dessert shop opening in Seattle, I'm going to be outside Hot Cakes, tapping on the glass and chanting "open open open" until they finally let me in.
Also worth noting: Jill Severson will be the new pastry chef at Mistral Kitchen. Severson was an apprentice for Jacques Torres at his Chocolate Haven shot in Manhattan, and, more locally, she's worked at the Fairmont Olympic Hotel, the Essential Baking Company, and she also worked under Neil Robertson, Mistral Kitchen's first pastry chef, who just opened the completely divine Crumble & Flake Patisserie on Capitol Hill (go there, get the chewy-o, thank me later).
It's a good day for dessert lovers in Seattle.
Death / Chow Extremely Important Poll! If an Airplane Full of Musicians Crashed in the Andes, Who Would Be Eaten First?
Posted by Grant Brissey on Fri, May 11, 2012 at 10:57 AM
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Chow Vij's Is Coming! Vij's Is Coming!
Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Thu, May 10, 2012 at 2:22 PM
People are CA-RAZY about the Indian food at Vij's in Vancouver, BC. Now the owners have signed a lease on a space at Republican and Terry in South Lake Union to open a sister restaurant called Shanik in November. (Shanik is the name of the daughter of Vij's cofounders Meeru Dhalwal, who cofounded Vij's with her husband, and Vikram Vij.)
Fnarf says, "OMG! OMG! The best restaurant in the universe is coming to Seattle!"
Press release with more details after the jump.
Booze / Chow It's Seattle Beer Week!
Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:31 AM
Now in its fourth beery year, Seattle Beer Week serves up more than 100 beery events from today through May 20 (because a beer week should be longer than a regular week).
In honor of our civic week of beer, Paul Constant visited brand-new South Lake Union sausage-and-beer emporium the Wurst Place—the ending point for Seattle Beer Week's pub-tour-by-bicycle on Saturday (and also open for lunch right now)... here's his review (spicy bison sausage!).
And Marti Jonjak went to Naked City Brewery & Taphouse, where DJs will be spinning live soundtracks to Psycho, Nosferatu, and Sunrise during Seattle Beer Week. Read all about it!
Also! Here's a very beery list of some recommended bars and pubs and minimarkets-with-lots-of-awesome-taps that are hosting beery events for Seattle Beer Week.
Celebrate the best beer city in the world (according to Seattle Beer Week) with beer!
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Chow Shiro and Jiro
Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:03 PM
I'm going to shut up about the neatest sushi thing that's probably ever happened in Seattle soon, I promise, but meanwhile please enjoy this photo of Shiro (left) and Jiro (right) and some guy they worked with (middle) on a day-off hike outside of Tokyo in the early 1960s. It's from Shiro's wonderful memoir Shiro: Wit, Wisdom and Recipes from a Sushi Pioneer (sold out everywhere except the Book Larder until the new printing comes in).
Chow More Seattle Sushi News
Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Tue, May 8, 2012 at 1:13 PM

- shimasushibar.com
- Super Dave, still goofing, now in Wallingford.
Now Dave Nakamura—a.k.a. Super Dave—has been located behind the sushi bar at Wallingford's Shima (along with Taka Sasaki, who worked at restaurants in Kobe for 13 years before coming to the U.S.). Before moving here for high school, Super Dave grew up in Hawaii; Shima has the same owners as Hawaiian Breeze around the corner, and also serves "ono-licious" Hawaiian food.
Super Dave used to be at J Sushi in the I.D., then he did a brief stint at the get-it-all-under-one-roof Pinto Thai Bistro & Sushi Bar on Broadway (which always makes me think of this). From there, it looks like he worked at Daimonji in Georgetown and also Japanese Gourmet downtown—now he's apparently been at Shima since last fall.
Super Dave's probably the funniest guy you'll find behind a sushi bar anywhere. He's bounced around a lot, but he knows his way around a piece of fish. (More over here.) If his photo on the Shima website is any indication—see above—Super Dave's sense of humor remains intact.
*I still can't get over how completely wonderful the interview is—on their part, not mine—or how great Kelly O's photo is... eeeeeeee!


















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