“I love food, love to eat. I think about food all the time,” executive chef Janine Doran confides as we sit at a table in Café Flora, the Seattle Vegetarian Restaurant she’s worked in since 1992. The Seattle native wears fork earrings, stylish red glasses and a nose...
Chef Caprial Pence has garnered accomplishments that can intimidate: James Beard Award winner; star of hundreds of episodes of cooking shows; co-author (with husband John) of nearly a dozen cookbooks. But when I rolled into Seattle’s Bookstore Bar & Café, Pence’s...
There’s a bit of a wait at the Aldewood Bistro, in Sequim, Washington, even on a weekday evening, and I can see why. It’s a perfect sunny evening, and the outdoor courtyard is open for al fresco dining. During my wait, I poke my head into the courtyard. It’s a green...
Getting to know Cedarbrook Lodge We’re surrounded by 18 acres of trees and wetlands at Cedarbrook Lodge. Birds fly overhead. A pond reflects the glass and wood enclosed restaurant. And jumbo jets lumber into Seatac airport, hardly a mile away. This is NOT where you...
Blondie’s Plate’s proprietor Kim McDougall was a “self-proclaimed professional diner” before she opened her own restaurant in the town of Sequim on the North shore of Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. But she took good notes, because when it came time to open her own...
