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The Days Ahead: Sustainability, Beats, Cocktails, and Horror

Rachel Breiwick — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 19:12:38 +0000

Your days off are yours. But we at The SunBreak like to think that a little direction can help make your weekend just a little bit better. So here are our picks for the last weekend of September. You know, other than swilling pints during Oktoberfest. Seattle gets electronic with Decibel Festival The bass started … Continue reading →

Elliott’s Oyster House Welcomes Spring, Just for the Halibut

Audrey — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 23:00:07 +0000

Spring at Elliott's Oyster House means one thing: the arrival of halibut fresh from the San Juan Islands. The fish are hook-and-line caught by native treaty tribes, who are permitted to harvest these fish sustainably. At Elliott's, the halibut appears in two forms on Executive Chef Robert Spaulding's dinner menu.

Back to School with Gimlet Recipes at Hendrick’s Cocktail Academy

Audrey — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:45:24 +0000

Do you drink Hendrick's Gin? Such a question--as a sophisticated, worldly lady and/or gentleman, of course you do. It's a most unusual, curiously different gin, after all. And what makes it so different? BOTANICALS, son. That, at least, was the take-away lesson from our visit to Hendrick's Gin Cocktail Academy, held at Tavern Law. Jon Santer, mixologist-turned-brand ambassador for Hendrick's was on hand to teach a room of mostly drunk girls how to make gimlets. And if drunk girls who RSVPed for an event via Yelp/Facebook can figure out how to do it, then you can too.

Say Hello to Canon, an Old-Fashioned 12th Avenue Booze-Up

Michael van Baker — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:40:10 +0000

Jamie Boudreau's bar Canon (Twitter, Facebook), now open officially, is the kind of place that will make a boozehound of a certain stripe feel that he or she has died and gone to cocktail heaven, at least between the hours of 5 p.m. and 2 a.m. Just down the street from Tavern Law, and not too far from the Knee High Stocking Co. or Sun Liquor Distillery, Canon (only the one N in the middle there, despite a cannon being its mark) has some work to do to distinguish itself from neo-speakeasy cocktail emporia, but if there's anyone who can do it, it's Boudreau.

New to Seattle: Camarena is Premium Tequila for the Masses

Audrey — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 22:01:56 +0000

The first tequila to bear the family name, Camarena is made with 100 percent pure blue agave, sustainably farmed in the Los Altos Highlands, where the family has about three million agave plants growing. Right now, the tequila comes in silver and repasado varieties, with an anejo in the works. These are sweet, peppery, and earthy liquors, and though the quality is high, the price is nice: each bottle retails for $20.