Subscribe to Ed's TableSep. 10, 2009 at 5:13pm
Dine with me or dine with Sarah Palin
Whacked-out GOP diva auctions dinner for charity; I'll donate the cost of your Dinner with Ed Meal Ticket to charity
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Eat Well, Do Good, Eating with Ed, Reviewing, South Sound Eats, Tacoma
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I'm a few spin cycles behind in reading my whacked-out diva RSS feed, but I just got whiff of this and wanted to tell you that I've got a few things in common with Sarah Palin. First off, we were born on the same day, one year apart. Second off, you can pay to have dinner with her and you can pay to have dinner with me. Our prices are as far apart as I could be from Palin's politics. Read more
Sep. 3, 2009 at 1:52pm
Dine with me at Fur Ball, help dogs and cats, get a free $50 South Sound Eats Meal Ticket
Reserve your seats for my table at Dugan Foundation gala
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Eat Well, Do Good, Eating with Ed, South Sound Eats, Tacoma
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Reserve your seat at my table at Fur Ball, the Dugan Foundation's black-tie gala, on Oct. 3 at Tacoma's Temple Theater and receive a $50 South Sound Eats Meal Ticket. That's $200 worth of fabulous food and fun for just $150.
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Aug. 11, 2009 at 9:13am
A smoking-good dinner, with a taste of Julia Child
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Chefs, Eating with Ed, Tacoma
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There are just a few tickets left to this week's smoking-good tribute dinner to Julia Child at The Ark, the new smokehouse restaurant in Tacoma. Click here to buy yours. Read more
Jul. 18, 2009 at 8:17pm
Julia Child's smoking dinner
Old letters from culinary icon inspire a tribute dinner
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Eating with Ed, Tacoma
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In the middle of a sales call, I stopped selling and started listening. Roseanna Donely, owner of The Ark, a smokehouse on Tacoma's Tideflats, and I talked about business, family, food, life. Read more
Jul. 18, 2009 at 6:38pm
Savoring Zoobilee
Tasting notes from black-tie fund-raiser at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Eat Well, Do Good, Eating with Ed, Tacoma
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There was a lot to savor Friday night at Zoobilee, the black-tie fund-raiser that benefits animals and programs at Tacoma's Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium. Read more
Jun. 12, 2009 at 1:46pm
Divine auction items at Honor Thy Farmer dinner
Reserve your seat through South Sound Eats and save $50
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Eat Well, Do Good, Eating with Ed, Farming and growing, Tacoma
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If the farm-fresh menu for Saturday's Honor Thy Farmer fund-raiser for the Tacoma Symphony Orchestra hasn't yet convinced you to purchase your tickets -- deliciously discounted at $100 per person, only through South Sound Eats -- then some of the live auction items may entice your appetite. Here is a list of the foodie goodies up for bid Saturday night, as generously donated by farmers and chefs alike. Read more
May. 27, 2009 at 7:33pm
Honor Thy Farmer: A black-tie farm-to-table benefit
South Sound chefs cook the bounty of South Sound farmers
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Eat Well, Do Good, Eating with Ed, Farming and growing, Tacoma
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Five South Sound chefs will prepare the bounties of five South Sound farms in a black-tie farm-to-table dinner benefiting the Tacoma Symphony Orchestra on June 13. Read more
May. 4, 2009 at 12:11pm
Star Chefs rocks the Pantages
Broadway Center fund raiser was a tasty night
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Eat Well, Do Good, Eating with Ed, Tacoma
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Having tuxed up for a number of rubber-chicken and leather-steak fund-raising dinners, I'm happy to report that the organizers of Star Chefs 2009 delivered on their promise of a night of fabulous food for Broadway Center for the Performing Arts' fund-raiser Sunday night at the Pantages Theater in Tacoma. Read more
Apr. 17, 2009 at 10:53am
Rainiers have new flavors on tap
Crab cakes burger, tiki cocktails among the new menu items at Cheney Stadium
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Eating with Ed, Tacoma
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A slew of new food items -- along with tiki cocktails and cheaper beer to wash them down -- are on tap at Cheney Stadium as the Tacoma Rainiers open the ballyard's 50th season tonight. Read more
Apr. 2, 2009 at 7:17pm
Help Ed Dine Out for Life poll
Looking for restaurants where I should work as an ambassador
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Eat Well, Do Good, Eating with Ed
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I'll dine at three restaurants on April 30 for Dining Out for Life, the annual one-day event in which local restaurants donate 25 percent of your dining dollars to local AIDS organizations. I also will work as a Dining Out for Life ambassador that day, thanking diners like you and telling you how your donations help people with AIDS and HIV.
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Apr. 1, 2009 at 8:07am
Tell Ed where to eat winner: Europa
Look for an upcoming report
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Eating with Ed, Reviewing, Tacoma
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I asked. You answered. I'll be eating at and writing about Europa Bistro in the next month. Thanks to those who voted. Read more
Mar. 24, 2009 at 7:21pm
Tell Ed where to eat
Your votes count toward a future review. Polls close April 1.
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Eating with Ed, Reviewing
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I've chosen five restaurants at random. I've eaten at all of them at least once. I wouldn't mind eating at any of them again. Vote on which one you'd like me to write about, and I will.
UPDATE 4/1: Voting is closed. Europa Bistro garnered the most votes.
Mar. 23, 2009 at 11:36am
Meet me at Marcia's for Dining Out for Life
South Tacoma Way cafe sponsors ambassador fund-raising
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Eat Well, Do Good, Eating with Ed, Media, Tacoma
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I will work as a Dining Out for Life ambassador at Marcia's Silver Spoon Cafe on April 30, part of South Sound Eats' pledge to the Pierce County AIDS Foundation's Dining Out for Life, a fund-raising event through which 25 percent of customers' dining dollars for one evening each year are donated to organizations that care for people living with HIV and AIDS in the South Sound. Read more
Mar. 16, 2009 at 9:33pm
Fee-fi-fo-fum: Capers Downtown is now The Seven-Oh-One
Rechristened restaurant adds dinner service
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Eating with Ed, Tacoma
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Ten feet below the front door of The Seven-Oh-One, in the subterranean womb of that Pacific Avenue address, the cobwebby chill of yesteryear vise-gripped me. I closed my eyes and imagined last-century Tacoma -- nefarious tunnels and Turkish baths,bomb shelters and Shanghai bars, all connected long ago beneath now-humble streets. Read more
Mar. 12, 2009 at 12:57pm
Tale of three burgers: Flip-N-Out, In-N-Out, Sonic
A first bite of a new Tacoma burger, plus a sip of Sonic's drinks
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Eating with Ed, First Bite, Restaurant Openings, Tacoma
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The first thing I did when I landed in Sacramento last week was revisit one of my favorite hamburger haunts: In-N-Out, the California-based drive-in chain that's yet to migrate to the Northwest. The timing was deliciously ironic as I chowed down on a Double-Double on the same day that a burger joint with a doppleganging name and logo opened in Tacoma.
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Feb. 18, 2009 at 3:15pm
Masa does it all day
New all-day menu, new coffee house open new possibilities at Sixth Ave. eatery
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Eating with Ed, Tacoma
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Masa be on to something with its new menu and its new accents -- burgers, mac and cheese and, soon coffee, along with some carne asada -- all of which enhance the Sixth Avenue eatery's edginess and accessibility.
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Feb. 11, 2009 at 4:23pm
Feeling love of $5 grub
5 restaurants, 5 food orders, $5 or less
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Bargain Bites, Eating with Ed, Tacoma
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Five bucks is the new bargain benchmark for South Sound restaurants. It's not just about Lincoln's birthday. Here are five restaurants where I've eaten specials for $5, or less, over the past five weeks. Read more
Feb. 9, 2009 at 2:48pm
Ranch House BBQ re-opens
Olympia barbecue outpost rebuilt after 2007 mudslide
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Eating with Ed, First Bite, Restaurant Openings
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While the parking lot was deliciously smoky, the skies west of Olympia today were far sunnier than they were on the morning of Dec. 12, 2007 as Ranch House BBQ and Steakhouse re-opened in its original location 14 months after a mudslide destroyed the restaurant's dining room. Read more
Feb. 7, 2009 at 11:27am
Deep-fried deliciousness adds up at 2121 Tavern
Hankering for fried chicken leads to East Tacoma watering hole
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Eating with Ed, Tacoma
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Even better than burritos or pizza, fried chicken is the perfect kind of food: You can eat it hot or you can eat it cold. You can eat it out of your hands, or you can be fancy about it and use a knife and fork. And if you don't mind a greasy steering wheel, you can eat fried chicken while driving, like I often do after I pop into supermarkets for mid-day fried chicken snacks. (Stadium Thriftway: savory, juicy and good. Fred Meyer on 19th and Tyler: Blech! Change the grease, guys!) Read more
Feb. 5, 2009 at 12:30pm
Sea Grill's $50 wine dinners float my boat
A good value and a fun night of wine education -- without the formal wine-dinner folderol
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Eating with Ed, Food and Wine, Tacoma
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I like dinner. I like wine. But I'm not a fan of most wine dinners, especially the kind that serve a half dozen courses along with a half dozen wines, cost me half of my limbs and last what seems like a half-life, by which time I'm half in the bag and half bored out of my soul. Read more
Feb. 1, 2009 at 5:51pm
Pick-Quick's back, packing mid-summer burgers in mid-winter
Highway 99 icon reopens after seasonal hibernation
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Eating with Ed, Restaurant Openings
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The temperature was barely above 40 degrees this afternoon when my dinnermate muse mused, "It tastes just like summer." In her hands and to her mouth she held two soft buns, one beef patty and all the condiments that evoke warm August nights on a cold February day.
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Bacon Explosion rocks Woody's
Bacon enrobing sausage enrobing bacon is a heart-warming sensation
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Eating with Ed
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Two pounds of bacon and two pounds of sausage sounds like a recipe for an exploding artery. Perhaps that's why its creators call it The Bacon Explosion. I had a taste of it today at Woody's on the Water. My heart's still beating, albeit a bit faster from the lovely memory of bacon enrobing sausage enrobing bacon, baked, smoked and glazed with barbecue sauce. Read more
Jan. 28, 2009 at 1:35pm
The prix fixe is right at Asado
Sixth Ave. restaurant's three-course $25 dinners hit the spot all night long on Tuesdays
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Eating with Ed
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I'm a big fan of prix fixe dining. Appetizer-entree-dessert menus at a fixed price are efficient for restaurants and attractive for diners: Restaurants can manage their inventory and diners know exactly how much they're going to spend. In these shaky economic times, everyone wins.
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Jan. 20, 2009 at 3:50pm
The Corson Building: There's no place like homey
Georgetown restaurant is a shrine to culinary community
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Eating with Ed, Ed Eats Seattle
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Settled in at a communal table at The Corson Building, my dinnermate muse and I mused over our tablemates. Read more
Jan. 20, 2009 at 8:49am
More than a dream: Swearing in President Obama
Watching and celebrating at South Sound eateries, watering holes
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Eating with Ed
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The last time I woke up early to watch a black man make history on television, O.J. Simpson skated. Today, history redeems itself. I'm sitting in Puget Sound Pizza having breakfast and watching CNN's coverage of Inaugration Day 2009, the day Barack Obama becomes the 44th president of the United States, the first black person to hold the world's highest political office. This is more than a dream. Read more
Jan. 10, 2009 at 10:00pm
Courting the muse at Merende
My tale of two different dinners tastes great
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Eating with Ed
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Two women bought me dinner recently. Both wanted to go to il Trattoria di Merende Restaurant. What kind of man would refuse? Read more
Jan. 10, 2009 at 3:26pm
Desire for dessert on the half shell deflated
Yes, Sea Grill has no oysters today
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Eating with Ed, Industry Issues
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My dinnermate muse desired oysters for dessert. Read more
Jan. 1, 2009 at 9:32am
All-American grub flies on 'South Korean Way'
Tacoma Eagles Aerie #3 dishes up bargain diner fare
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Eating with Ed, Tacoma
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When you think of South Tacoma Way, South Korean restaurants, bakeries and other businesses come to mind. But the venerable thoroughfare is home to many cultures -- good ol' American among them. Nowhere is that more abundant than at Tacoma Eagles Aerie #3, the outpost of the fraternal organization whose logo, emblazoned with an American eagle, touts the motto Liberty, Truth, Justice, Equality.
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Dec. 11, 2008 at 2:25pm
Mmmm, a taste of Merende
Small plates restaurant, helmed by Jeffrey Bishop, delights my first bite
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Eating with Ed, First Bite, Restaurant Openings
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I was customer No. 1 at il Trattoria di Merende, the new small-plates restaurant that opened today in the downtown Tacoma space that used to be Vin Grotto Wine Bar and Cafe. Read more
Dec. 10, 2008 at 7:19pm
Ho, ho Rudolph on a fork
Doyle's venison shepherd's pie puts a holiday twinkle in my eye
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Belly Up with Ed, Eating with Ed, Tacoma
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I wasn't in much of a holiday mood -- until I forked into the Rudolph Pie at Doyle's Public House. Yep, it's what you think: shepherd's pie, made with venison. It's this month's special at Doyle's. Read more
Dec. 9, 2008 at 3:22pm
Attention, Nordstrom diners
Cafe Bistro is a comfortable, bustling place for a casual culinary outing. Shopping optional.
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Eating with Ed, First Bite, Tacoma
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I've spent voraciously at Nordstrom lately. Robert Graham shirts: Delicious. Bruno Magli boots: Like buttah. Hanae Mori eau de parfum: Dang, I smell better than bacon! So I figured it was time to drop into Nordy's new Tacoma Mall Cafe Bistro and drop money on food. Read more
Dec. 8, 2008 at 9:16pm
Cooking good in my neighborhood
Browns Point Diner: Good food, good atmosphere, and a view of Commencement Bay
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Eating with Ed, Tacoma
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My posts last week about new owners moving into The Cliff House and the upcoming smokehouse reincarnation of The Olde Shipwreck remind me that something else is cooking in eatery-starved Northeast Tacoma. Read more
Nov. 26, 2008 at 10:05am
I'm back: How South Sound Eats got cooking
A lonely critic, a bunch of friends, our dream Web site
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Eating with Ed, Reviewing, Tacoma
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Welcome to South Sound Eats -- an online food community where we explore and share the best food and beverages in the South Sound. As our tagline says, South Sound Eats is about Food, Wine, Beer and Sense of Place. Community is the key ingredient to South Sound Eats. Read more
