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 ...
In 2015, husband-wife baking team Roger Martinho and Mirtha Sanchez opened their tiny, tiny bakery inside Tacoma’s Freighthouse Square food court. La Waffletz and Macaron Station could barely fit two pastry chefs in its kitchen. ...
The first thing you’ll notice about Old Town Wine Skins is how light and bright the space has become. That’s the work of co-owner Cosette Pfaff, who opened the wine bar and eatery on Monday ...
Restaurant work is grueling, but it’s just a little easier once you find your “people.” You rely on those people to make sure you don’t cut off your finger, get accidentally locked in the walk-in, ...
It’s been two years since Bliss Small Batch Creamery opened its first brick-and-mortar location in University Place. Happy birthday to Bliss. Everybody gets a birthday benefit from their celebration. Get half-off ice cream (cups and ...
Right about now every year, downtown Puyallup is a flurry of activity in preparation for the thousands of beer drinkers who usually descend on Oktoberfest Northwest, the largest pop-up beer hall gathering in the region. ...
Pierce County’s first Wienerschnitzel is opening Sept. 24 in Fife at 5156 Pacific Hwy E. The national hot dog chain is known for its long list of hot dogs and Tastee-Freez soft serve ice cream. ...
Costella’s Italian Restaurant and Market is now open in South Hill. The restaurant’s opening day is today (September 18). Costella’s is at 214 39th Ave. SW., which is the former home of the Hub South ...
Two months ago, Mija Chang stood in the half-assembled dining room of BB.Q Olive Chicken in Lakewood and worried about the final details of opening her Korean fried chicken restaurant with her sister Mi Young ...
In this era of constantly evolving regulations guiding which businesses can operate (or can’t), locals are doing what we all should strive to do: Turn into scrappy fighters in the face of adversity. Here’s one ...
Today was a triumphant day for restaurant owner Tim Bartz. More than two years after a fire took out his popular downtown eatery Happy Teriyaki #4, he reopened the doors (August 3, 2020). “We’re very ...
Two years after he started work on the new home for his North End Tavern, Ron Kerns is still at it. The name is now North End on Pearl and when it’s done, it’ll be ...
Little Radio in downtown Tacoma is all powered up. The restaurant and bar is from well-known Tacoma beer guy Ken Thoburn and his business partners at Tacoma’s Wingman Brewers. That brewery celebrated its ninth anniversary ...
Since 1999, Deborah Tuggle has lived by the motto that “sharing cookies is sharing love.” She started her cookie company Bite Me Cookies, Inc. 21 years ago in Tacoma’s Hilltop neighborhood. She sold her cookies ...
UPDATE: FIND MY WINTER OUTDOOR DINING STORY AT THIS LINK July 2020 – If you’re searching for restaurants with outdoor dining on patios, decks and other al fresco dining opportunities, you’re not alone. I’ve been ...
When Crystal and Bakaffa Casey were stationed in Italy while Bakaffa was in the Army, taking a trip to another European country became a weekend tradition. Those mini vacations allowed them to eat their way ...
Mija Chang stood at the entrance of her new restaurant, BB.Q Olive Chicken in Lakewood two weeks ago. Construction dust was everywhere. “It’s been a lot of work, but there’s still so much more to ...
Grit City Ciderworks is now open in Tacoma's Hilltop neighborhood.
So many people have asked me in Where to Dine Pierce County, the Facebook group, where to find live seafood tanks and fresh seafood. Here’s your answer. This is a growing guide to fresh and ...
South Hill residents, you’re getting a cidery taproom this summer. Fierce County Cider, the three-year-old South Hill based cidery, is expanding to its very own tasting space at 9918 162nd St. Ct. E., which is ...
Summer’s canceled. Or that’s how it feels right now. Concerts, festivals and fairs. We won’t be enjoying those this summer. But you know what’s not canceled, for at least three weekends? Elephant ears, Krusty pups ...
When Tacoma beverage superpowers align, wonderful things happen. This weekend is proof with a drive-thru cider and beer festival safe for social distancing. Tacoma Brewing Co., Tacoma Cider Co., Witch Dog Brewing and Mad Hat ...
When the noodle and dumpling stand Mogoso debuts at the Tacoma Farmers Market Thursday (June 4), the pop-up restaurant will merge the palates of its Korean and Chinese owners. It’ll also fill a need for ...
Look out Tacoma, you’re getting another beer spot. Pint & Pie hopes for a June opening in the Stadium neighborhood. This one is a brewery that will serve a small and succinct menu of savory ...
Lynette Boado got her start in the food world “separating Simex lumpia wrappers for a penny apiece in the basement of my parent’s house that was converted into a commercial kitchen,” she said. Thirty years ...
The intersection of Taco Tuesday and Cinco de Mayo on the same day any other year would generate lines out the door and packed bars. But these aren’t normal times. But you know what can ...
In the last four years, Brianne Day has operated her Spilled Butter Desserts out of a cubbyhole window in North Tacoma, her mother’s catering kitchen and a rented kitchen space. Out of those temporary spaces, ...
In a normal year, we’d pick out mom’s favorite Pierce County restaurant for Mother’s Day and make a reservation. There would be mimosas aplenty, a brunch buffet or maybe a steak-and-lobster feast with doting table-side ...
For some Tacomans, Easter isn’t Easter without a coconut egg or chocolate bunny from Tacoma’s Johnson Candy Company. Good news: They’re open now for curbside pickup, or mail orders. Call 253-272-8504 between 10 a.m. and ...
Restaurants might be closed for in-person dining thanks to Covid-19, but Tacoma-area restaurants still want you to have a nice Easter dinner or brunch. I’ve gathered a collection of menus and information about 2020 Easter ...
These are weird times. Sometimes weird times call for extreme measures, like closing all restaurants for in-person dining to reduce the risk of transmission of COVID-19. Need to know who is open with takeout and delivery? ...
Sukiyaki is one of those elusive Japanese dishes in restaurants, although I have so many friends who cook it at home. It’s a one-pot meal with slippery noodles, thinly-sliced beef, tofu and veggies sunk into ...
Any day is a good day to eat your way around the Lincoln District, but Sunday is the neighborhood’s annual Lunar New Year celebration. Don’t miss it. There will be dancers and other live entertainment. ...
Here's where to find Mardi Gras eating in the Tacoma and Puyallup area in 2020.
Reason #1817 why I love the Church of the Indian Fellowship's frybread Fridays: You can smell the frybread before entering the back door into the church’s basement dining room.
It’s finally here! My favorite eating festival, Tacoma’s Greek Festival, which is held the first weekend in October every year at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Tacoma’s Hilltop neighborhood. As with previous years, there ...
One of the things I love so much about Pierce County eating is the kickoff of the fall food festival season. My favorites include the Tacoma Greek Festival the first weekend in October, as well ...
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