Your Daily Dose of Food News, Events and Must-Read Miscellany 1. Seattle

Your Daily Dose of Food News, Events and Must-Read Miscellany

1. Seattle Restaurant Week starts Sunday, and 50 restaurants are new to the lineup. Among the new names are Bar Cotto, Le Petit Cochon, LloydMartin, Loulay Kitchen & Bar, mkt., Skillet Diner (Ballard and Capitol Hill locations) and Stoneburner. The event will run in two installments, from April 6-10 and April 13-17.

2. Lark is hosting a four-course champagne and wine dinner with Fat Cork’s grower champagnes and Adelsheim’s still wines. Tickets include eight wines and are on sale now at the Fat Cork website.

3. The Queen Anne Farmers Market has announced its dates for the upcoming market season. The market will run every Thursday from June 5 to October 16, from 3 to 7:30 PM. This year, Canlis is releasing a rose wine to benefit the market.

4. An Alaskan state senator has drawn the rancor of women everywhere by suggesting that women be required to take pregnancy tests before drinking in bars. Jezebel has several quotes—and a scathing summary of the remarks.