Subscribe to Ed's TableJul. 30, 2009 at 12:39pm
Hot at the Murano
Room rates pegged to the day's temperature
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Cool Things, Tacoma
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It was too hot to blog at home yesterday. So I checked into The Murano, thinking I could finish writing my review of Tacoma's coolest hotel. Turns out it was too hot to blog in a hotel room, even with the air conditioner running at 60 degrees. Read more
Jul. 8, 2009 at 9:47am
Food and music invade Tollefson Plaza
Summer Lunch series starts in downtown Tacoma
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Cool Things, Tacoma
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Downtown Tacoma's desolate Tollefson Plaza will come to life on Fridays this summer with food, beverages and music. Read more
Apr. 22, 2009 at 9:32am
Progressively for the planet, and 6th Ave.
Earth Day celebration at Crown Bar, progressive dinner on the avenue
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Cool Things, Tacoma
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Today is Earth Day, and along Tacoma's 6th Ave. restaurants and customers will take progressive steps. Some will do it with gut-deep beliefs in saving the planet that sustains us. Some will do it by walking on the pavement, from restaurant to restaurant to restaurant, sustaining a culinary community that feeds us. Read more
Apr. 15, 2009 at 3:05pm
Sixth Ave. gets progressive
Four restaurants and dancing featured in progressive dinner series
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Cool Things, Tacoma
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Dinners, desserts, live music and dancing are on the menu of the 6th Avenue Merchants Association's upcoming progressive dinners, which will be held one night per month for the next three months. Read more
Apr. 14, 2009 at 9:54am
Hell-n-high-water drama of 'Deadliest Catch' lands at Varsity Grill
Captains and crew of The Time Bandit highlight seafood-themed buffet
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Cool Things, Tacoma
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If you didn't get your fan-boy geek on fast enough and now find yourself shut out from the filled-up CatchCon in Seattle next week, you can still hang out with a captain and crew from "Deadliest Catch," the Discovery Channel program that takes viewers inside the hells, high waters and human dramas of commercial fishing. Read more
Apr. 2, 2009 at 1:47pm
Buy into local coffee-n-juice joint
Pre-paid drink cards to raise construction funds for Lecy-Davis/Satellite Coffee concept
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Cool Things, Farming and growing, South Sound Eats, Tacoma
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I stood on the chalk outline of Satellite Coffee Co.'s second satellite coffee bar Tuesday night. It was no downtown death scene. Rather, it was the birth of an interesting idea, a barn-raising way of raising money in depressing times. Read more
Mar. 17, 2009 at 11:25am
PLU preps for Culinary Week
Mediterranean flavors -- and a Top Chef battle -- highlight this year's event
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Chefs, Cool Things, Tacoma
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Keep your girls gone wild and beer-soaked beaches. This here is my kind of spring break: Pacific Lutheran University's Culinary Week, filled with Mediterranean cooking demos and food tastings, highlighted by a big lunch and and a Top Chef-style college cook-off. Read more
Jan. 24, 2009 at 6:53pm
Pints of remembrance for Parkway bartender
Tacoma tavern will celebrate Mathew 'Matty' Broaddus on Wednesday
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Belly Up with Ed, Cool Things, Staff, Tacoma
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Tears have flowed. Now it's time for beer to pour, with maybe a few more tears to chase down the hops and malt. On Wednesday, Tacoma's Parkway Tavern will celebrate Mathew "Matty" Broaddus, a bartender and Parkway family member who died of a heart attack Dec. 23 at age 46. Read more
Jan. 17, 2009 at 12:41pm
Food Network diving into Southern Kitchen
Tacoma icon will star in 'Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives' segment
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Cool Things, Media, Tacoma
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Iconic Tacoma diner Southern Kitchen will be featured in an upcoming episode of Food Network's "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives" program. Taping will take place next Saturday and Sunday at the thirtysomething-year-old Sixth Avenue restaurant. Read more
Dec. 25, 2008 at 3:20pm
Heaping helpings of Christmas
The Harmon feeds and clothes more than 300 people; El Gaucho bartender delivers toys to children's hospital
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Cool Things, Eat Well, Do Good, Tacoma
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The Harmon fed and clothed more than 300 people today, as the downtown Tacoma restaurant and brewery opened its doors to those with hunger and need on Christmas Day. Read more
Dec. 20, 2008 at 7:13pm
The way we ate: Vintage menus from Seattle
A collection of menus dating to the 1930s reveals what we ate -- and some of what we still eat
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Cool Things, Ed Eats Seattle
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Paired with my earlier post about vintage South Sound menus, here's a selection of vintage Seattle menus. One of the restaurants featured here, The Georgian (formerly at the Olympic Hotel, now re-christened the Fairmont Hotel) is still in business. Onion soup and Caesar salad are the few items the vintage and contemporary menus have in common. Read more
Dec. 18, 2008 at 9:15am
The way we ate: Vintage menus from the South Sound
A collection of menus dating to the 1930s reveals what we ate -- and what we still eat
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Cool Things, Tacoma
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I've been drooling over thoroughly modern menus at South Sound restaurants: Mangalitsa pork ravioli at Brix 25. House-cured beef bresaola with quince preserves at Il Fiasco. House-made pork rilletes and pan-Asian steak tartare at Maxwell's Speakeasy + Lounge. Farro and anything with rabbit at Merende. Then I came across a stash of vintage menus from South Sound restaurants. We've come a long way, baby.
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Dec. 5, 2008 at 9:46am
Bartender's heart driven by sick kids
El Gaucho mixmistress stages her annual Christmas toy drive
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Cool Things, Staff, Tacoma
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Bartenders and servers work for tips. This time of year, El Gaucho mixmistress Silvia Tapia works for sick kids as well. For the past eight years, Tapia has plied her cocktail talents and encouraged her customers to donate toys that she delivers to hospitalized children on Christmas Day. Read more
