November 2011
Tarboo for Her
The great minds behind Tarboo finally have a ladies line.
Never underestimate the power of a woman. Last year, Pun(c)tuation shop creative director Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes and designer Matt Noren collaborated to create an in-house men’s line for the shop (called “Tarboo,” after the Hood Canal inlet) and, while their handmade, lumberjack-like shirts got an enthusiastic response from local dudes, their biggest fans were women clamoring…
Looking Good in Layers
Club Monaco manager Sean Frazier creates dapper, preppy appeal with Northwest-ready layering pieces.
WHY WE LOVE THE LOOK:When in doubt, put on another layer. That is style dogma according to Frazier, who layers (multiple) timeless, classic men’s silhouettes at a time to suit life in all-over-the-map Northwest temps. “I’m drawn to anything I see that has the potential to go over, under, around or with other pieces, like…
The Vashon Island Diet
Why hundreds of local residents have gotten on board—and dropped hundreds of pounds.
MOST PEOPLE AGREE THAT dieting is easier when you do it with a buddy. If you live on Vashon Island, diet buddies are everywhere. That’s because a new diet plan—called the “TQI Diet” (“to quiet inflammation”)—has become so popular on the island that an estimated 15 percent of the adults there have signed up for…
Do Seattle Schools Produce Underachievers?
As if Seattle’s public schools weren’t plagued enough, now critics say they are producing underchall
“My sixth-grade son’s report card came home, and he got almost all A’s,” recalls Seattle parent David Price. But what seemed like a cause for celebration quickly turned to concern. “Later, when I asked him how hard his classes were on a scale of one to 10, he said, ‘Four.’” Price, a parent of students…
The Mystery of D.B. Cooper
It's the 40th anniversary of D.B. Cooper’s daring escape, one of Seattle’s most enduring crime myste
A few crumbling $20 bills. An airline boarding pass. A pink parachute. A black, clip-on necktie from J.C. Penney. This is all that remains of a legendary highjacking, and it fits neatly into a cardboard box at the FBI office in Seattle, part of a long-dormant investigation. Dormant, that is, until this past August, when…
Restaurants Blending Their Own Wines
Seattle restaurants and Washington wineries join forces to create signature blends that shine.
At Seattle’s Canlis restaurant, great wine is as essential as great food. With 14 consecutive Grand Awards for its wine list from Wine Spectator, an 18,000-bottle cellar and 2,500 selections on its 100-page wine list, Canlis has a dedication to wine that reaches far beyond that of most fine dining restaurants. But having the best…
World Pizza Returns
Hail the return of a king.
Owners and brothers Adam Cone and Aaron Crosleycone (a mash-up of his and his wife’s last names) told me they’d painted the second coming of World Pizza a bright tomato red to combat the gray Seattle sky. It works: The new International District space casts a glow onto the sidewalk outside, luring passersby into the…
RN74 Has Plenty of Flash
Michael Mina's new local wine bar is likeable.
When “celebrity chefs” open restaurants in Seattle, it’s newsy, exciting and mostly disastrous. Our underdog complex (we’re worthy?) rears its ugly head alongside our locavore stubbornness (we only like local chefs!), and “name” chefs from other cities usually don’t last long. And so it began again when San Francisco überchef Michael Mina, who owns 18 celebrated…
Stopsky’s Delicatessen
Most of us don’t need the census numbers to know that the largest concentration of Jewish households in the state is on Mercer Island. The puzzler is why it took this long for a good Jewish deli to open there. Demand, meet supply: Stopsky’s, which opened in May and aims for a modern take on…
Portland’s Best Restaurants
Requisite restaurants for your next food trip to our culinary sister to the south.
Seattle’s food scene enjoys a bit of friendly (or fervent) competition with Portland. The two cities tussle over the James Beard Foundation’s Best Chef Northwest award each year, and Seattle’s recent overhaul of its food-truck laws was a blatant attempt to catch up with Portland’s long-standing dominance in the realm of street food. Clusters—or pods—of…
Best New Portland Food Trucks
Sure bets are rolling up with the latest wave of mobile food trucks.
Downtown food-cart clusters, like the mighty pod at SW Ninth and Alder, have been around since the 1980s, but new pods with names like Cartopia and Good Food Here bring fusion fare and fries to parking lots in more remote neighborhoods. (Cartopia is the lone late-night pod, serving food until 3 a.m.) According to Multnomah…
Marie & Frères Passion Fruit Pops
A show-stopper snack in South Lake Union.
In the oh-so-civilized space that once housed chocolatier extraordinaire Claudio Corallo, Marie & Frères lives on in similar, elegant style. Owner Marie-Francoise Barnhart regularly travels to single-estate chocolate growers to select the chocolate for the store’s truffles, cocoa nibs and confections. (The shop currently uses organic fair-trade chocolate from South America.) And while chocolate connoisseurs…
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