Earlier this month, I told you about the tail end of strawberry season and that raspberries are now available at numerous Pierce County farms and farm stands. And now blueberries are upon us. Below, I’ve ...
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 ...
If you felt you missed out on a few things the last 15 months, you’re not alone. Dining inside restaurants was put on pause by many. It’s difficult to get up to speed after spending ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Welcome to today’s installment in support of Pierce County’s Restaurant Rally. Today’s featured restaurants are Happy Teriyaki and The Mill Steakhouse & Spirits. I’ll be writing about locally owned restaurants throughout the rally, which takes ...
Today, I’m featuring Chili Thai and Citron European Restaurant, two outstanding restaurants you should visit for Pierce County’s Restaurant Rally. I’ll be writing about locally owned restaurants throughout the rally, which takes place Nov. 8-12 ...
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. ...
About this time every October, a volunteer army piles into St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Tacoma, armed with buckets of tzatziki, hundreds of pounds of gyro meat, 11,000 wedges of baklava, and sturdy shoes. ...
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. ...
Ice Cream Social is on the move, and it’s expanding. The Tacoma-based 8-year-old ice cream company founded by Layla Isaac operates two scoop shops. Isaac opened her first retail store in Tacoma’s Sixth Avenue neighborhood ...
Step 1: Clear your schedule for Sunday brunch. Step 2: Secure a designated driver. Step 3: Reach into the back of your closet for your Thanksgiving pants. Step 4: Head to Gilman House, Tacoma’s newest ...
Louie G’s, the pizzeria and live music venue in Fife, is permanently closing. Its last day of business will be August 29. It’s a restaurant I adore for its stalwart brick oven that churns out ...
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 ...
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 ...
Old Town Wine Skins is coming to Tacoma’s Old Town neighborhood. Late August or later is the target opening timeframe for the wine bar and small-plates cafe that will be across the street from The ...
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