For many who visit Washington’s Long Beach Peninsula, a meal at Nanci & Jimella’s Café & Cocktails in Ocean Park is as mandatory as digging for razor clams. For us, it’s a trip down a culinary memory lane as well as tasty new adventures with some of the...
More and more towns and cities are filling up with chain restaurants and, often, these eateries cut costs by using canned, pre-made and processed ingredients for their dishes. That’s not the case at family-owned Road Runner Express Espresso & Café in Yelm,...
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...
Chef Jeremy Hansen of Santé Restaurant & Charcuterie wielded his expensive Japanese knife as he sought out the best cuts of the farm fresh pig on the stainless steel table before him. He was not only demonstrating how to break down the half-pig, but how to find...
