Seattle Represent!

FishTacoBlog.com is a new website with plans to review the best fish tacos in the nation. The starting cities will be New York and Seattle with plans to expand to other cities across the nation. Each restaurant (or hole-in-the-wall) is reviewed with appropriate meta information and pictures of the fish taco goods. Eat away!

It’s no secret that Seattleites have an affinity for cupcakes. The expansion of popular cupcake chains across Seattle neighborhoods demonstrates that even in an economic downturn, we are still shelling out our hard-earned cash for these sweet treats. Continue Reading…

Upstairs from the more formal Ray’s Boathouse is Ray’s Cafe, a fun bar-oriented version of its famous big brother. The restaurant is located in Ballard on Seaview, which is the road you’d take to get to Golden Gardens. Ray’s offers a diverse seafood oriented menu and the Cafe has its own deck which has 180 degree views of Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains. The deck is worth the added wait. Continue Reading…

From the folks who brought you The Harvest Vine comes a “San Sebastian style” pintxos restaurant.  For those who couldn’t stick a pin in San Sebastian, let alone differentiate a San Sebastian and a Catalan style pintxo (itty-bittier tapas apparently), it is a Spanish town on the Atlantic, rather than the Mediterranean.  Same focus on fresh seafood as Catalonia, just different seafood.  Authentic San Sebastian pintxos are typically affixed to a hunk of bread with a toothpick. Continue Reading…

Now, I’ve never been a big fan a karaoke. It seems when some people get a few drinks in them all of a sudden they think they can sing something Bon Jovi’s, “Dead or Alive” better than Bon Jovi. Case in point, I recently visited the Rickshaw Restaurant and Lounge in Greenwood and within five minutes of sitting at the bar witnessed a guy with his shirt off, beer belly in full sweat, singing…yes, “Dead or Alive.” Continue Reading…

After years of living away from my beloved Washington state, I finally got the opportunity to move back in July of 2008. Of all the things I missed dearly and was excited to return to, the oddest thing stands out to write about. Continue Reading…