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The consequence of working in the same region for 30 years: A chef might hop restaurants, but diners will follow and ask for a specific dish the chef made 20 years ago at a restaurant that no longer exists.
Gertie Rice was a woman who loved gambling and St. Patrick’s Day. She was best known as the Gertie behind the iconic South Sound restaurant, Galloping Gertie’s.
This week, I’ll tell you about three restaurants that are hidden out of sight, but are worth a visit and your dining dollars. Today, I’ll feature The Pickled Pepper, a tiny sandwich cafe tucked into a business complex on East Main Street in Puyallup.
Wherever you are in Korea, whether it's Seoul or Gyeongju, soup is served at every meal.
This week, more than a quarter million diners are expected to dine out to raise money for HIV/AIDS programs. More than 65 restaurants in Pierce County are participating in the national Dining Out For Life event that takes place Thursday, April 26, 2012.
The name has been selected – and it’s Boathouse 19. That’s the previously nameless waterfront restaurant I told you about in February in this blog post. The 230-seat restaurant will open at the Narrows Marina, located at the end of South 19th and Bridgeport near Day Island.
To understand the theme at Little Jerry’s, a 16-seat cafe that opened mid-February in Tacoma’s Fern Hill neighborhood, you have to get 1990s TV sitcom “Seinfeld.” Like, really get it.
However you view Marrow, the sophisticated new restaurant on Sixth Avenue, there’s one common theme: It strives to be approachable. It’s a restaurant with a chef who has created a menu of meaty ingredients unfamiliar to Tacoma – roasted bone marrow, goat, oxtail, ostrich and bison. And there’s a dissonant undercurrent at Marrow: The meat-centric restaurant, named after its signature dish of bone marrow, unexpectedly also caters to vegetarians.
The front row at the Bayview School of Cooking has filled up quickly on a recent Monday night – long before Xinh Dwelley stepped up to the burners.
After losing its 18-year home several months ago to a building remodel, Moctezuma’s is set to open its new Gig Harbor Mexican restaurant later this spring. Operations manager Bernie Garcia, son of founder Arturo Garcia, who opened the first Moctezuma’s on South Tacoma Way in 1978, said progress on the Gig Harbor location has been slowed by permitting issues. Moctezuma’s new location will be just across the street from its previous location next to Safeway.
For years, Freighthouse Square has been an incubator for fledgling restaurants. Some restaurants come and go in a matter of weeks. Some stick around for years. Two restaurants recently reopened after several months of closures for building repairs. So what’s coming next for the mall and its collection of unusual retail shops and restaurants? That’s anyone’s guess.
When Molly Ott bought Corina Bakery in 2008, she didn’t think all that much about the stairs that separated the bakery from the storefront – until she had to maneuver 80-pound wedding cakes and 50-pound bags of flour up and down those stairs.
Seven Tacoma-area restaurants will vie for bragging rights to the best sliders in town Saturday night at Shake, Rattle and Grill, a Museum of Glass event.
A 230-seat restaurant serving regional food with a new American spin is on its way to the Narrows Marina at 9001 S. 19th St., Tacoma. The restaurant plans are so new, the masterminds behind the Tacoma restaurant do not yet have a name for it, permitting still is in the works and the building is just a bare-bones structure about to get a big makeover.
TNT Diner had no trouble finding bars and restaurants widely known for their late-night shenanigans that also produce quality eats from the weekend morning griddle – in copious, delicious quantities. Here are five “bars” with breakfasts worth a try.
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