50 Shades of Delicious: 2 Chewsy for the Catwalk

Last evening we took a last chance to dine at an iconic Seattle restaurant that is closing in the next week, Rover's a French restaurant with definite Northwestern notes that has been open for over twenty-six years (almost as old as Ro).  Owner Thierry Rautureau is calling it quits in this chapter of his book, but we are confident this is not the end of the story.  There are rumors he is going to open a new restaurant in the near future.  He also owns the kid brother of Rover's-- Luc (named after Thierry's father) a more laid back French-American Bistro that is only steps away from its more mature sibling.   Chef/Owner Thierry Rautureau  with his famous fedora Photo courtesy of chefinthehat.com People like us, that are first-timers to his restaurant in the final days, are definite members of the last supper club.  We aren't in the club alone, Thierry estimates at least 30 percent of people making reservations for the very last meal on June 23rd to b...

Mrs. Betsy Jangles Godzilla vs. fire hydrant We spent a weekend exploring the eclectic neighborhood of Georgetown just North of Boeing Field and South of Sodo (South of Downtown) Seattle.  The neighborhood is made up of a lot of industrial buildings, funky shops, a flea market made up of trailers and the  Georgetown Brewery .  A few of the treasures obtained from the flea market were a boxing Godzilla puppet and an accordion. We decided to cap off the adventure by having Sunday supper family style at the Corson Building.  The restaurant is committed to organic processes and building and using community relationships and products.  In fact, they've entered into a partnership with a Vashon Island Farm,  The Old Chaser Farm  , where they source  some of their restaurant ingredients.  The farm offers a weekly box full of products from the farm similar to  Full Circle Farm , but also includes items like preserv...

Ro admits that she isn't well versed in French cuisine so it was quite a treat for her that our friends, Shawna and Steve, suggested we have a double date at RN74 for dinner (which by the way took months to coordinate due to conflicting schedules).  Shawna was fortunate enough to dine at the RN74  in San Francisco and absolutely loved it, but hadn't been to the Seattle location yet. We hadn't been either and were excited, but had low expectations because we had both read mixed reviews about the Seattle restaurant. RN74 is named after a main highway or Route Nationale that runs through Burgundy, France.  RN74 Seattle is a taste of France, but much closer to home, located in the renovated Joshua Green building on 4th Ave and Pike in Downtown Seattle where the Rite Aid pharmacy used to be (Ro remembers it so vividly).  The interior of the restaurant is decorated using a lot of dark wood with hints of light emanating from  various  colored and differently sha...

The age old battle for foodie city supremacy in the Northwest took to the kitchen this spring.  Now if you don't live in either Portland or Seattle let us set the table for this epic battle.  Seattle is home of Starbucks and a coffee shop on each corner, grunge music, Eastside techies working at Microsoft or a wireless company (who keep Starbuck's in business), engineers building airplanes at Boeing and the iconic Space Needle.  Portland definitely gets the nod for advanced city transportation (something that Seattle can't seem to figure out), taking eco-friendly to an entirely new level, bikes, microbreweries, roses, kicked-up sneaks (home of Nike) and who can pass up the guilt-free no tax shopping. With the recent spotlight being placed on Portland with the hit IFC series Portlandia (written by and starring Fred Armisen (SNL) and Carrie Brownstein (Wild Flag vocalist/guitarist)), Seattle had to up the anti. One of our favorite restaurants Matt's in the ...