Never have I been happier to see a calendar flip. At the close of a year that proved brutal for local restaurants, I want to take a moment to celebrate new restaurants that expanded the ...
Staying home and skipping the big gatherings is necessary, but certainly less fun than the way we all want to celebrate the end to what has been a horrible year for most. But it will ...
The email messages started a few weeks ago. “Where do I get Chinese take-out for Christmas?” Every year I compile the list, and every year more people ask for the list earlier and earlier. That ...
Tacoma’s Unique Bakery has opened at 925 Market St. And it brings with it something this city is short on – a deep selection of French pastries. Local diners can swoop up croissants, macarons, cream ...
Making Christmas tamales together is a tradition spanning generations for some families. Except this year gathering to make those tamales becomes so much more complicated with pandemic concerns. That’s likely why Palmira Mendoza Martinez has ...
Jason Alexander stood at the bar last week at newly opened Gilman House. He hovered over a giant plastic bucket surrounded by smaller buckets half filled with house-made elixirs for which Gilman House and its ...
Shortly before 11 a.m. on a Sunday in November, the line started to assemble on Sixth Avenue. A woman who clearly had become a regular at The Cat & Rabbitt Cakeshop, which opened Nov. 15 ...
The difference between good hot cocoa bombs and excellent ones, Lisa Holmgren found, was about a half-inch. In the two-inch hot cocoa bomb mold, the Steilacoom bakery owner found she could fit some marshmallows into ...
Verone’s Italian Sausage could be one of the oldest food companies based in Tacoma that you’ve maybe never heard of. But that’s about to change with the opening of their new retail location. The five-generation ...
It’s always a good time to shop locally. Lucky us, we’ve got plenty of local food businesses producing fancy hand-decorated cookies, smoked landjaeger, boutique oyster packs, handmade ginger beer, hand-dipped truffles and pints of ice ...
Once again, Christmas dinner won’t look like it has in the past for any of us. Who could ever have predicted the most important ingredient during the 2020 holiday dining season would be Webex and ...
When the state order came in November requiring restaurant dining rooms to close, some restaurants started hatching plans to turn what most definitely is a negative situation into something transformative. What better time to rip ...
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