Subscribe to Ed's TableJun. 1, 2009 at 8:49am
Asado now serving lunch
'Lunch will now complete the Asado concept and prepare us for other markets'
Posted by Ed Murrieta in First Bite, Tacoma
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While other restaurants may feel the economic urge to cut back or close down, Asado is going for more. The Argentine-accented restaurant, which has been a smoking-hot anchor of Tacoma's Sixth Avenue dinner scene since opening in 2006, opens for lunch today. Read more
May. 29, 2009 at 12:53pm
The Ark sets sails and I dig in
A first bite of the Tideflats smokehouse restaurant
Posted by Ed Murrieta in First Bite, Tacoma
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It's been a lot longer than 40 days and 40 nights since The Ark first planned to open in December. The restaurant officially opened on Monday, resurrecting the wreckage that was The Olde Shipwreck roadhouse on Tacoma's Tideflats. I got my first bite of The Ark on Tuesday. I had one order of ribs and one order of chicken. Based on my first bite of golden chicken and sweet pork ribs, I'm inclined to order two of everything when I return. Read more
May. 21, 2009 at 11:05am
Lox-step eating at Broadway Farmers Market
A first bite on the first day on the dowtown Tacoma market
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Farmers Markets, First Bite, Tacoma
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The Broadway Farmers Market opened in downtown Tacoma today, and it opened my eyes, along with my mouth for a few tasty first bites. Read more
Apr. 27, 2009 at 3:22pm
Sonic booms on opening day
Long lines -- and Elvis -- mark Midwest chain's Puget Sound debut
Posted by Ed Murrieta in First Bite, Restaurant Openings
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Meridian Avenue was all backed up from 132nd Street to 140th Street today as the Midwest burger-and-slushy chain Sonic Drive-In opened its first Puget Sound location, in South Hill. Read more
Apr. 23, 2009 at 6:35am
Maxwell's shakes up menu and management
Maxwell's shakes up menu and management
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Changes and Sales, First Bite, Staff, Tacoma
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A small-plates menu isn't the only new thing at Maxwell's Speakeasy + Lounge. There's a smaller payroll, too: front-of-the-house man Rich Troiani left Maxwell's this week. No word yet on his replacement, but executive chef Matt Colony told me today that he's picking up some of Troiani's administrative duties. 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. 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
Jan. 10, 2009 at 11:57pm
Tacoma team spins a pizza parlor in Normandy Park
Can we get a Cafe Mia in the South Sound?
Posted by Ed Murrieta in First Bite, Restaurant Openings
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I drove a little north of the South Sound border to Normandy Park, south of Sea-Tac, tonight for a taste of handcrafted, stone-baked pizza a Cafe Mia, a soon-to-open pizza-pasta-sandwich restaurant overseen by Troy Christian and Sean Quinn, the Tacoma team that opened Maxwell's Speakeasy + Pub early last year and established Asado in 2005. Read more
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. 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
