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Unexpected Legacy: Selected Works of Kenneth Showell

Unexpected Legacy: Selected Works of Kenneth Showell

Kenneth Showell Artworks presents Unexpected Legacy: Selected Works of Kenneth Showell (1939-1997) at Slip Gallery (2301 1st Avenue, Seattle) September 6-30, 2023. In 2018, Hannah Palin, a Seattle film archivist, received a storage pod filled with work created by her estranged father, Kenneth Showell, a New York painter and photographer who died in 1997. Palin…

There's a Reason This Japanese Comfort Food Joint is Always Packed for Lunch

There’s a Reason This Japanese Comfort Food Joint is Always Packed for Lunch

Home-style Japanese food has proved popular in a neighborhood full of lunch options.

Salmon teriyaki bowl from Moon’s Kitchen in Belltown.

One of Seattle's Top Cocktail Bars Has Turned Into a Christmas Wonderland

One of Seattle’s Top Cocktail Bars Has Turned Into a Christmas Wonderland

Kick off your party season with this drink from Rob Roy’s annual Advent Cocktail Calendar.

Anu Elford serves this cocktail warm, in a sturdy—and decorative!—mug

Belltown's Arty New Game Bar Opens This Week

Belltown’s Arty New Game Bar Opens This Week

Plus, the whiskey that has people lining up for days and other notes.

Jupiter brings arcade games and cool murals to Belltown.

Belltown's Discreet New Whiskey Bar Has Southern Charm With a Spanish Twist

Belltown’s Discreet New Whiskey Bar Has Southern Charm With a Spanish Twist

The new bourbon-lovin' bar from the Pintxo team doesn't disappoint.

Get acquainted with Southern spirits via Commonwealth’s Introduction to Kentucky cocktail.

Looking Back at the Queen City Grill, Set to Close in January

Looking Back at the Queen City Grill, Set to Close in January

A landlord dispute ends the run of an iconic Belltown restaurant with a storied past

Sheri Schultz (center), wife of Starbucks’ Howard Schultz, at the Queen City Grill’s bar in the late ’80s.

Home of the Week: Sophisticated Sky-High Condo in Belltown

Home of the Week: Sophisticated Sky-High Condo in Belltown

Two floorplans merged to make one grand sanctuary with spectacular views at every angle

Sponsored Content. For more information on this listing contact Michael Doyle at 206.669.0203 or thriveseattle@windermere.com. Each week, we’re featuring one Seattle-area home that we think is interesting, inspiring or just a downright feast for the eyes. Some of them are actually on the market, while other homes will offer enviable style tips–courtesy of their ingenious owners or…

The Tuesday Ten Dolla Holla:  Twisted Pasty

The Tuesday Ten Dolla Holla: Twisted Pasty

Belltown café serves up Midwestern meat pies

In Michigan’s stark Upper Peninsula, the meat pastry pocket known as the pasty (pass-TEE) rules the day.  Before it reigned in the Midwest, however, the pasty was a convenient lunch for 19th century British miners, who ate the filling then discarded the crusts as an offering to spirits they believed could knock and warn them…

Attack of the Foodie Tours

Attack of the Foodie Tours

Seattle Food Tours and Savor Seattle begin the season of the roving feast

Now that it’s almost summer, spring is finally here. That means a new season of food tours that incorporate walking, eating, learning stuff, eating, more walking, and more eating. I tagged along last week on Seattle Food Tours‘ revamped Belltown Restaurant Tour, which in its third season has evolved from a snacky trek through Belltown…

Boat Street Cafe's Best Brunch

Boat Street Cafe’s Best Brunch

There are breakfasts, and then there’s Boat Street Cafe & Kitchen's Rustic Cornmeal Custard Cake.

There’s really no better place to meet friends for brunch than at the Boat Street Cafe & Kitchen, which is tucked away on the far reaches of Belltown near the foot of Queen Anne Avenue North. Cool light spreads through the loft-like space; it’s the kind of place where crisp white linens, freshly cut tulips…

Bisato is Affordable Brilliance

Bisato is Affordable Brilliance

It seemed out of character when, in January, chef Scott Carsberg closed his revered fine-dining dest

It seemed out of character when, in January, chef Scott Carsberg closed his revered fine-dining destination, Lampreia, after 18 years. Even more of a shocker: He reopened the same corner space just a month later, serving his version of an Italian cicchetti-style (small-plates) menu. Gone (and, if you ask me, not missed) are the hushed…

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