Latest articles posted in Dish Feature http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/feature/10 2008-05-16T23:31:08+01:00 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Steve Dunkelberger http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/2195 <p>I was waddling into The Swiss the other day to look for my first summer brew of the season.<br /> I hadn&rsquo;t hit the Swiss in a while and totally missed its 15th birthday party last week since I was double booked. So it seemed only fitting th ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Ken Swarner http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/2168 <p>Metaphysically speaking, do you feel The Force in your food?<br /> <br /> When you eat a carrot &mdash; do the miticlorians give you a connection to the universe &mdash; offer up spiritual communication &mdash; empower you?<br /> <br /> Many p ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Ken Swarner http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/2139 <p>&ldquo;And the winner is &hellip;&rdquo;<br /> <br /> A packed house of restaurateurs, foodies, chefs and sommeliers waited at the edge of their seats during the 2008 Taste Washington awards ceremony in early April as the Washington Wine Commiss ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Ken Swarner http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/2095 <p>Since the dawn of Christianity, goats &mdash; those cute, prancing Capra aegagrus hircu we love to pet at the Puyallup Fair &mdash; have walked this earth as known associates of the Devil. In the Middle Ages, goats whispered lewd innuendos into th ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Steve Dunkelberger http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/2075 <p>I was chatting with Brett Dodd awhile back. He runs Speedway Brewing right down the street from Saint Martin&rsquo;s University, a prime bar location.<br /> <br /> But he has a problem that all other brewers of all things beer also worry about. ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Ken Swarner http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/2035 <p>A locally celebrated chef told me recently that cooking had more to do with craftsmanship than art.<br /> <br /> &ldquo;Saying it is art sounds hoity-toity to me,&rdquo; says this chef. &ldquo;Cooking is a teachable skill &mdash; you can teach a ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Ken Swarner http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/2007 <p>Stadium Bistro Chef Peter Weikel laughed. He laughed for a long time. Then his business partner and father, Peter (same name) laughed too. They shared a nice family moment as I sat there dumbly waiting for an answer.<br /> <br /> &ldquo;No, seri ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Ken Swarner http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/1996 <p>The age-old English idiom &ldquo;eating high on the hog&rdquo; meant for British elite the so-called &ldquo;good fortune&rdquo; to eat the fancy, more marketable cuts of animals, leaving the rest of the carcass to the lowly, poor people barely scr ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Ken Swarner http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/1950 <p>A typical meal for a Qing Dynasty Chinese emperor consisted of eight main dishes, four side dishes, two or three hot soups, hotpots, and plenty of steamed buns, rice and cakes.<br /> Ask me, you don&rsquo;t have enough Weight Watcher points to ea ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Steve Dunkelberger http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/1924 <p>After The Harmon Brewery &amp; Restaurant turned 10 last year, it only seemed right that its creators start thinking about procreating. They did, and the baby is due to open March 31, with a grand opening on April 1<br /> <br /> Pat Nagle and hi ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Sandee Glib http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/1906 <p>I love sushi. Sushi, sushi, sushi. Here it goes, down, down into my belly. Yes, sushi is my Achilles heel, and I cannot ever seem to get enough. In Seattle there actually is a sushi restaurant on South Lake Union called I Love Sushi. <br /> <br / ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Angela Jossy http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/1881 <p>Stephenie Jekel, owner of four Java Flow coffeehouses, knows a thing or two about triumph over adversity. Eight years ago she was homeless, addicted to methamphetamines, a domestic violence survivor, and mother of two small children. <br /> <br / ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Jake and Jason de Paul http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/1847 <p>ANNOUNCER: At least 2,000 islands form an important part of the classical country of Greece. Though most the nation&rsquo;s land mass is part of the main peninsula, the azure blue of the Aegean Sea and the white snowcaps of the Cretan mountains ar ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Steve Dunkelberger http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/1816 <p>I don&rsquo;t normally find myself out in the sticks, since I&rsquo;m more of a city boy when it comes to beer drinking. Yeah, I find myself at the local watering hole while I walk my dog through the neighborhood, and that isn&rsquo;t all that urb ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Jamie Forsythe http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/1787 <p>Valentine&rsquo;s Day isn&rsquo;t just a Hallmark Holiday (though the card companies do make a killing). Whether you&rsquo;ve been together two months or 20 years, Valentine&rsquo;s Day is an opportunity to reconnect with that special someone in y ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Matt Driscoll http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/1754 <p>Bigger than Christmas, New Years, St. Patrick&rsquo;s Day, Easter, Thanksgiving, Groundhog&rsquo;s Day, Halloween and your grandma&rsquo;s birthday all rolled into one, Super Bowl XLII will go down this Sunday, Feb. 3. The game between the unbeate ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com J.M. Simpson http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/1744 <p>The comforting smell of coffee welcomes those who walk into the Java Flow in Tillicum.<br /> <br /> The hardwood floors shine. <br /> <br /> On the wall to the right is a framed movie poster promoting &ldquo;We Were Soldiers Once,&rdquo; starr ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Steve Dunkelberger http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/1691 <p>The birth of a new beer pub always brings a little tear to my eye. But a new one just steps from my house makes me openly weep like a dad on his daughter&rsquo;s wedding day.<br /> <br /> Such bawling came with the opening of Jake&rsquo;s Bar an ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Jake and Jason de Paul http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/1659 <h2>AFFAIRS CAFE &amp; BAKERY</h2> <p>Affairs Caf&eacute; &amp; Bakery is a comfy place to catch up with a friend over gourmet breakfast and strawberry mimosa.&nbsp; Also, their chocolates are as close to a vice as you can get without actually sinni ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Jake de Paul http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/1620 <p>I was trying to get to I Love Bento, because it was a rainy, cold night that required a fast infusion of green tea, warm miso soup and some raw fish. Maybe some sake, too. And definitely a hit of wasabi. Since I firmly believe that a good winter f ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Jamie Forsythe http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/1581 <p>The home bar is a place where you can drink in peace, inexpensively, and in various stages of undress without those curious stares from strangers. Sure, your home bar could comprise a stack of Kwik Shop 64-ounce plastic cups and a half-gallon jug ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Steve Dunkelberger http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/1562 <p>This is not only the season for holly branches and red ribbon, but of social gatherings with little sandwiches served on silver trays or slabs of meat with peppers and good cheer.<br /> So it is at times like this when people wonder what beers to ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Jamie Forsythe http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/1527 <p>Holiday option No. 1: Slave for days in the kitchen baking gingerbread people, cake and pies for your relatives, who will then declare their devotion to the South Beach diet. <br /> <br /> Holiday option No. 2: Head to Julia&rsquo;s Bakery and C ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Jake and Jason de Paul http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/1492 <p>We&rsquo;re well into the feasting season. Still, for many of us, Thanksgiving dinner was the last serious sit-down meal for a while. With only the slightest effort, most of us can manage to survive from now until New Year&rsquo;s Day on nothing b ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Steve Dunkelberger http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/1427 <p>Conventional wisdom would have us believe that the rise of higher-end restaurants in Tacoma during the last few years would leave sour tastes in the mouths of the chefs at the City of Destiny's landmark eateries. That wisdom would be wrong.<br /> ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Steve Dunkelberger http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/1372 <p>There are few places in the South Sound where diners can travel through a world trip of food selections without having to get a passport.<br /> <br /> DuPont is becoming on of those locations, alongside Olympia's Fourth Avenue, Tacoma's Sixth Av ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Bill Timnick http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/1348 <p>The weather outside, although not exactly frightful, wasn&rsquo;t all that inviting either. I was wet, a little cold and very hungry. But once I got inside, I knew I wanted to take my time before I chose how I would satisfy my hunger. For the mome ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Jessica Corey-Butler http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/101 <p>Fire sets a mood.&nbsp; Back in the &rsquo;70s, that mood was all about lying on a bearskin rug with Courvoisier in a brandy snifter, listening to Peaches and Herb, although there were the other hip individuals who had avocado green freestanding f ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Jake de Paul http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/1289 <p>Although not everybody feels the need to dress up like Donald Trump on Wednesday, Oct. 31, few are willing to forgo Tacoma&rsquo;s unofficial municipal holiday &mdash; Halloween. Before falling down drunk in their Bill O&rsquo;Reilly costumes, mum ... text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.weeklyvolcano.com Jessica Corey-Butler http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/article/1231 <p>The tale Maribel Garcia tells is the sort of story that becomes a legend as years pass.<br /> <br /> It&rsquo;s the story of a boy in Mexico with 17 siblings. He begins working at five years of age to help his family meet expenses. The boy&rsquo ...