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Do you like Chinese food? How about Mexican? Have you ever used the term ‘flavor bomb’ in a sentencing describing food or some other animate object? Well, if you’ve answered ‘yes’ to all three of these questions you’ll want to check out Christopher Yang’s ‘The Chinese Laundry’ pop-up on November 17th. This Sino-Mexican fusion meal is prepared family style and offered through the Dyne mobile app. For $34 you can try dishes such as Puerco Peking and Wok-charred Ejotes while sitting with many of your soon-to-be friends.
For those of you out there pondering the romantic notion of opening a restaurant – run while you can! As one prominent local chef once told me ‘If you want to ruin your life – go ahead and open a restaurant’. But, if that doesn’t deter you then there’s help. The Restaurant Success initiative is a collaboration between State, County and Seattle City governments in partnership with the Washington Restaurant Association. The organization will provide Restaurant Advocates to help with business planning, navigating the arduous permitting and regulatory processes and moral support. Who says government is the problem?
Further afield, Copperleaf Restaurant and Bar at Cedarbrook Lodge has introduced its new fall menu focused on local Pacific Northwest Farm products. A sampling of farms contributing to the menu include Mad Hatcher, Willowood Farm and Willapa Hills. Chef Mark Bodinet works his magic in the kitchen spinning up creative dishes such as 14-day dry aged venison with melted shallots, caramelized salsify, brussels sprouts, and huckleberry-thyme jus and Bourbon-Glazed Salmon Bacon with Willowood Farm potato “mille feuille”, butter-braised Honeycrisp apples, bearnaise mousseline. This is not your grandfather’s hotel restaurant. Check out their menus here.
In West Seattle, Peel and Press has opened in the old Abbondanza space in Morgan Junction. The focus is a winning combination – stone-fired pizza and spirits. How can you lose? Also on offer are a variety of pastas and gnocchi to round out the hearty Italian-centric menu. Stop in for a highball and pepperoni pie to lift your spirits on this dreary day of the dead.
