Seattle posts on Food in Mouth
Oh look, one more Seattle food post. This one sort of has ties to New York though. Salumi is a tiny little sandwich shop that’s owned by Armandino Batali, the father of Mario Batali. See! This is relevant. Around lunch time, this place is packed. The line was out the door when we visited. Everyone seemed pretty patient about being in line for the goods, and it turned out that they had every right to be. It helped that someone came by with a taste of spicy sopressata for those of us in line. That’s good business practice that more places should try to emulate. You reduce the hit that people feel when they’re waiting in line. It’s like why I don’t understand food trucks in New York City don’t try to make the customer experience better when it’s raining in NYC. Social media is already ubiquitous, why not just throw a special via twitter or facebook when the weather is bad. There’s no way that when it’s pouring outside, business is going to be the same. But back to Salumi. We settled with a porchetta sandwich because how can you go wrong with that?… [Continue reading]
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June 1, 2012 at 5:49 pm
After two weeks of Seattle posts, I think it’s about time to sunset this dying category since it’s just killing my page rank from shitty to shittier. Who knew!? While I mentioned that I had a good experience with Seattle’s Restaurant Week, I also mentioned that we went to a place that didn’t like RW and had their own little thing against it. That restaurant was Madison Park Conservatory. They held a raffle for support of not supporting restaurant week. I can dig it. RW ain’t for everyone. It’s a bit like sex-ed in public schools. Smart folks think kids need it, but if you’re super religious and want your teenage daughter to get knocked up and get married at 18 and pop out a kid in the middle of rural Mississippi, then by all means, don’t go for sex-ed…. [Continue reading]
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May 18, 2012 at 9:02 pm
You ever do this thing where you enjoy a meal, think it’s OK on the price, then later on when you think back, you realize they gave you an order of something in the larger size (more expensive). This probably doesn’t happen to someone who’s not a cheap Chink. In fact, I was happy with the meal at Sitka and Spruce in Seattle. The one thought I had which was incorrect was that they gave you a lot of food. What actually happened was I thought I ordered the appetizer portion and they gave the entree portion, and that’s the real reason it felt like a lot of food. See I was going to rave about this place in Seattle that just won a James Beard Award for Best Chef Northwest. I can’t even say it was shady, because I should have asked. But really that server should clarified with me what I wanted. His decision to either not ask or to forget to ask was simply a measure of his skill to treat well those customers who are cheap. While I do not want to dwell on the failures of a single server, I will…. [Continue reading]
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May 15, 2012 at 6:29 pm
Aaaaaand more pictures from Seattle. Not much of a surprise there huh? I’m trying to go through them as fast as possible. When’s the last time you saw four posts a week on this blog? Been a while… Down some alley around Pike Place Market is this thing called The Gum Wall. They call it that because it’s just a brick wall full of gum. Inciting both awe and critique, this wall is definitely something to see. Even if you think it’s disgusting, it’s amazing just how much gum is on this wall. I just want to talk about Dahlia Bakery a bit before moving onto other posts about restaurant-y meals in Seattle. The bakery is part of the Tom Douglass empire and this year he was recognized for his feats with the 2012 James Beard Restauranteur of the Year award. If you spend a lot of time in downtown Seattle, it’s really easy to end up at his restaurants more than once. In fact we ate breakfast at Dahlia Bakery three or four times. Let’s take a quick look…… [Continue reading]
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May 11, 2012 at 8:18 pm
Fuck North Carolinians. Just get that out of the way. Back to posts about Seattle though. The skies are definitely not always sunny in Seattle in the Spring. As you can see, it’s kinda overcast sometimes… in fact, it’s overcast a lot. I’ve heard people say it rains 200 days a year there, but only 45 inches of rain or so, which isn’t a lot. This is because most of the time it’s just misty. That brings me to another thing I learned on this vacation… always check the average rainfall for the that time of the year, and do it before going on vacation. It helps just a little bit. So last time I talked about how Seattle’s Restaurant Week was a success at Spur Gastropub. Well, it’s not always a success when you do a RW menu. We encountered some hiccups at Mistral Kitchen…. [Continue reading]
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May 9, 2012 at 7:31 pm
One thing that’s nice about New York is that it’s possible to get restaurant-level desserts without going to a restaurant. Dominique Ansel… [more]
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October 22, 2015 at 1:12 am 
We went to check out the new-ish Whitney Museum by the Meatpacking District the other week. The weather was gorgeous and you could see the Freedom Tower… [more]
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October 18, 2015 at 5:00 pm 
The long goodbye is always the hardest. And while school happens and time passes, we still have to find ways to pass the time, and to fill our bellies…. [more]
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October 9, 2015 at 1:03 am 
At some point in my life, instead of going to the school that was a five minute bike ride away from my house, I got bussed into an inner city school… [more]
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October 1, 2015 at 1:22 am 
One of the benefits of marrying someone who is very different from me is that there are new food items to grow to love. Kouign Amann is a buttery pastry… [more]
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September 30, 2015 at 1:54 am