Courtney Johnson knows that the correct cheese with which to make a root beer float is Winnimere, from Jasper Hill Farm; that ...

Justin Inahara considers it his job to take coffee seriously. In exchange, he hopes that his customers will not. He started ...

Salmon is a sexy fish; halibut and tuna have some clout. Lingcod, on the other hand, has no reputation whatsoever. Delicious, sustainable, and local to the West Coast, lingcod is also hideously ugly, ...

Hungry for news? Welcome to our Friday Feed, where we run through all the local food and restaurant news this month—and maybe help you figure out where to eat this weekend. For 26 years, chef and ...

The margarita I ordered before dinner one golden evening at Driftwood arrived with an apple slice for a garnish. Where was the wedge of lime? The official fruit of spring break (not to mention adult ...

Most everyone who goes to Antarctica wants to cuddle a penguin. On this, his first trip to the continent, Dr. Ashley Olson is the only one in his group who actually gets to, sort of. At Brown Station ...

In the course of a food writer’s year, trends emerge and patterns become visible. In 2025, I ate and drank my way through lists of the Seattle area’s best new restaurants, best old restaurants, ...

It doesn’t get any more Seattle than Jancy Buffington’s musical origin story. A longtime visual artist, she started out messing around in GarageBand in 2018 while working at a genetics lab. When her ...

If you want to go to Alaska, you can get to Alaska. Cruises depart from Seattle ports every summer heading toward the great northern land of lumberjack shows and gold-panning museums. But the 49th ...

The year: 2003. The state of cocktails in Seattle and beyond: Sweet concoctions that made liberal use of the suffix -tini. But in a very few places around the country, an appreciation was dawning for ...

The size? Twelve acres. The theme? Washington state. Traipse the four and a half miles of corn-crowded pathways at Swans Trail for an IRL lesson on local geography, landmarks, and historical facts.

When you've seen just about all the reindeer and jolly bearded men you can handle, there's a less holiday-minded light show awaiting at the Seattle Chinese Garden. A one-mile path guides visitors to ...