A word to the wise: If you want Chinese take-out on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day in the Tacoma-Pierce County area, you need to have a game plan and a Plan B. It’ll be busy, ...
We’re two weeks out from Christmas. Here’s where to supplement or purchase your Christmas 2021 dinner at restaurants, caterers and bakeries in Pierce County. I’ve found fewer options than in year’s past, but I hope ...
For a decade, dessert lovers could find biscotti from Tacoma-based The Art of Crunch at farmers markets, coffee shops, pop-up events, wine bars and holiday markets. Today, you can pop into Tacoma’s new The Art ...
An army of volunteers once again has piled this summer into the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Tacoma. The church volunteers are armed with gallons of honey syrup and thousands of sheets of phyllo ...
For 100 reasons, the biggest of which was the pandemic, I missed out on the 2020 Pierce County fresh berry season. Flash forward to 2021 and it’s safe to say I’ve more than made up ...
For the first time, Filipino mobile restaurant Lumpia Love has a brick-and-mortar location in Tacoma. At least for a few more weeks. The next two weekends, diners can pick up lumpia, pancit, sio pao, musubi ...
When Jesse Dunagan opens Dunagan Irish Pub & Brewery in Gig Harbor sometime this spring, his five-year-old brewery will triple in size and he’ll add a live music venue and restaurant. UPDATE: Dunagan Irish Pub ...
In an expansive building the size of a warehouse, there are a lot of cool things to see in the space that holds Tacoma meadery taproom, Kvlt Mead. The wood-beam ceiling is one thing you ...
When Altha’s Louisiana Cajun Seasonings & Spices expands to downtown Puyallup sometime this spring, visitors will find a one-stop shop for everything a home cook needs to make a dinner straight from the bayou. UPDATE: ...
Valentine’s Day 2021 won’t look like any other we’ve had before. This, of course, is the time to blow that keto diet and indulge in something fantastically carb laden. I went looking for pick-up options all ...
Super Bowl is Sunday, February 7, 2021 and there’s a strong possibility you’re looking for take-out food for your at-home viewing. Here are places with snack packs to-go and easy take-out options. I’ll be adding ...
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 ...
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 ...
Traditionally around here, just after Thanksgiving, we all start thinking about al fresco dining season. Ugh. Not really. Out of necessity, and by state order, only outdoor dining is allowed right now. It’s not fun ...
Restaurant Rally is here and that means diners get 30 percent off food at participating restaurants through Nov. 19. The discount is good for dine-in and take-out food through today (Nov. 17) and for take-out ...
Restaurant Rally, a discount program offering diners 30 percent off meals at participating restaurants, is less than a week away and restaurant owners are prepping for a deluge of customers. Pierce County also launched the ...
Welp. This won’t be the Thanksgiving we want with all the pandemic concerns about group gatherings, but let me help you try and make the most of Thanksgiving 2020 anyway. With many families skipping the big ...
Five years ago, I used to have to send diners to King County when they’d ask me about a seafood boil/crawfish restaurant. Today, Pierce County not only has choices, it has multiple choices for seafood ...
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