Subscribe to Ed's TableApr. 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. 20, 2009 at 7:07pm
Blazing burgers! More in Uptown Gig Harbor
Blazing Onion coming to upscale shopping center
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Gig Harbor, Restaurant Openings
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I forgot to mention in this post about Le-Le opening in Gig Harbor's upscale shopping center: Blazing Onion will open soon in Uptown Gig Harbor. It'll be the third location for the Mill Creek-based restaurant that serves blinged-out burgers, sandwiches and more . Stay tuned for opening date.
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Apr. 20, 2009 at 4:06pm
LeLe moving on Uptown
Thai-Vietnamese restaurant opening new location in upscale Gig Harbor shopping center
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Chefs, Gig Harbor, Restaurant Openings, Tacoma
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Tacoma Thai-Vietnamese restaurant LeLe is moving on up from Hilltop to Gig Harbor with a second location in the upscale Uptown Gig Harbor shopping and dining plaza. The target opening date is May 20, owner LeLe Tran told me today. Read more
Apr. 5, 2009 at 1:51pm
Coming soon signs
Smoked meats on the Tideflats, cupcakes and couture in Proctor.
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Restaurant Openings, Tacoma
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In a time when many restaurants are praying to stay open, The Ark is praying to open. Soon. Read more
Mar. 31, 2009 at 9:44am
Pizzeria Fondi opens in Puyallup
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Restaurant Openings
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Pizzeria Fondi, the upper-crust, hearth-fired pie parlor from Seattle-based Restaurants Unlimited Incorported, opens its third South Sound eatery today. Read more
Mar. 26, 2009 at 3:44pm
1022 South opens Sunday in old Monsoon
Hilltop bar will do 'craft cocktails with a nod to the literary'
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Belly Up with Ed, Restaurant Openings, Tacoma
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1022 South, the new bar in the old Monsoon Room, will open softly on Sunday, and officially on Monday, having passed its final inspections today. Read more
Mar. 26, 2009 at 2:55pm
Get ready for Sax on Sixth Avenue
Italian-American restaurant will feature live jazz and dancing
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Restaurant Openings, Tacoma
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A unmistakable coming-soon sign went up on Sixth Avenue in Tacoma this week: the glowing red and gold sign of Sax Restaurant & Lounge, an Italian-American restaurant that will feature live jazz and dancing. 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. 19, 2009 at 12:33pm
Satellite is now at Masa, Black Water is on the move
Tacoma's Stumptown purveyor branches out; Black Water has a new lease on another coffeehouse
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Changes and Sales, Restaurant Openings, Tacoma
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Satellite Coffee Co.'s first satellite location is now open, inside Masa on Sixth Avenue. Meanwhile, Black Water Cafe owner Rachel Morsehead says she will close her downtown Tacoma coffeehouse on Feb. 27 and move into her new location in March. Read more
Feb. 10, 2009 at 8:14pm
Satellite at Masa brews on Sixth Avenue
Cult coffeehose hooks up with American-Mexican nightstraunt
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Restaurant Openings, Tacoma
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Satellite Coffee Co. will open a satellite location inside Masa, the Sixth Avenue restaurant and nightspot. 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. 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.
Read moreJan. 24, 2009 at 6:13pm
New Frontier owner opening new bar in old Monsoon Room
1022 South J will serve craft cocktails in a study-like atmosphere
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Belly Up with Ed, Restaurant Openings, Tacoma
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The owner of newly-opened The New Frontier Lounge near the Tacoma Dome plans to open a new bar in the Hilltop space that was abandoned last fall by The Monsoon Room. Read more
Jan. 13, 2009 at 9:45pm
Stephanie's: From roaches to resurrection
Broken equipment, business dispute also plagued restaurant's opening
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Restaurant Closings, Restaurant Openings
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It's hard to imagine things getting any freakier at 926 Pacific Ave., the downtown Tacoma address that once housed a Mexican restaurant cum gender-bending drag revue. But they did. It's a tale of cockroaches, broken equipment, a gas leak, a court order and a hostile take-over. Somewhere in the story, Stephanie's Gospel & Jazz opened, closed, re-opened with a new menu and new operators, closed and re-opened with the original menu and the original operators. 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
Jan. 9, 2009 at 12:51pm
The Cliff House re-opens
Opening-day trip required a detour as storm closed highway to Browns Point restaurant
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Restaurant Openings
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The Cliff House re-opened for business under new owners Thursday. With the old owner sitting at the bar -- he was the one who observed that the closure of the Hylebos Bridge several years ago cut down on the number of customers who'd make the drive from Tacoma to the Browns Point restaurant -- the new owners couldn't have picked a more ironic day to open: a day after a rainstorm closed Marine View Drive on the outskirts of the Tideflats to Browns Point. 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. 10, 2008 at 8:05pm
Bishop's back in town: Merende set to open
After a 10-month gestation, small-plates restaurant will debut tomorrow
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Restaurant Openings, Tacoma
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Ten months after I first reported its plans, il Trattoria di Merende will finally open -- at 11 a.m. Thursday for lunch, with dinner to follow at 4 p.m. Read more
Dec. 2, 2008 at 5:39pm
Smoking on the Tideflats
Caveman Kitchens' family member opening a smokehouse in Olde Shipwreck location
Posted by Ed Murrieta in Restaurant Openings, Tacoma
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From the carcass of The Olde Shipwreck, the venerable Tacoma Tideflats roadhouse that closed in 2007 after decades of rock 'n' roll degeneracy, soon will rise The Ark, a family-friendly smokehouse restaurant operated by a member of the family that's owned Caveman Kitchens in Kent since 1971. Read more
