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Andrew Zimmern’s Take on Bizarre Foods in Seattle

Back in July, The SunBreak gave you the scoop on Andrew Zimmern’s time in Seattle shooting an episode for his new Bizarre Foods America series. We even provided a behind-the-scenes look at his visit to Maneki, where he ate some slimy but delicious Japanese food.

It’s hard to know whether Maneki made the final cut, as Zimmern goes to many places in each location, with some naturally ending up on the cutting room floor. But you can be sure that the following five highlights (teased in this video clip) will be featured in the episode which airs tonight on the Travel Channel (6 p.m. if you have HD, 9 p.m. on standard cable):

  1. Coffee: a taste of Seattle’s coffee culture, including a stop at Seattle Coffee Works
  2. Geoduck (cutely but mistakenly spelled “gooey duck” on the Travel Channel website): an experience that looks like what Bourdain did during his No Reservations shoot
  3. Modernist Cuisine: a visit to Nathan Myrhvold’s Intellectual Ventures
  4. Sea Breeze Farm: a placenta-eating, blood-drinking adventure
  5. FareStart: a chance to teach students to cook with offal while learning about this amazing organization

[Update: Maneki made it in the show as part of a segment on Asian cuisine in Seattle!]

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Ring in Oyster New Year This Saturday at Elliott’s

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Oysters! (All photos Peter Majerle.)

But of course, one must start with some oyster wines. Would you like a pinot gris, a sauvingon blanc, or a pinot grigio?

You really can't go wrong. Here, let me pour you a glass of the pinot grigio.

Be sure to study the menu carefully.

See? There's a lot to choose from.

Oysters served with alder-smoked apples and pepper bacon, and done up Rockefeller-style, with spinach, bacon, and hollandaise.

A plate of seafood and a glass of white wine. What more does one need?

Audrey's typically hazy oysterface.

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It’s the most wonderful time of the year: Oyster New Year at Elliott’s Oyster House this Saturday, November 12th, starting at 5:00 p.m.

Your entry fee ain’t cheap ($95, and the $125 VIP tix are already sold out), but it gets you tons of seafood and booze, as well as the good feeling that comes from helping to restore the Henderson Inlet shellfish-growing region in South Puget Sound.

Along with being a benefit, it’s also the biggest oyster party on the West Coast, with more than thirty varieties of local oysters shucked to order and a seafood buffet with just about everything you can think of (geoduck tartare, anyone?). Get a taste of what to expect in the photo gallery above. There’s also live music, microbrews care of Pike Place Brewing, Boundary Bay, and Maritime Pacific, and vino from over forty wineries from Washington State, Oregon, and beyond.

Oyster New Year offers up so much to do that you might want to eat and drink yourself sick while tweeting your good time with the hashtag #ONY. Don’t miss out on the oyster luge, which is an impressive interactive eating experience, especially after a few glasses of wine, and be sure to cast your vote for the most beautiful oyster. As always, beauty is in the eye of the bivalve beholder.

Eats, Food

Today in Capitol Hill: Taylor Shellfish Shop’s Grand Opening

As if the Melrose Building didn’t already have enough quality eating options, Taylor Shellfish Farms is celebrating the grand opening of its Capitol Hill store today.

The store’s actually been open all month (daily 10 to 7), and it’s a fabulous place to shop for shellfish. Here you’ll find local geoduck, Manila clams, Mediterranean mussels, Dungeness crab, and much more–including fresh (think soups and stews) and frozen products. In the center of the store are tanks of oysters, a bargain to eat right on-site considering they’ll shuck them on put them on a platter of ice with lemon and hot sauce. Shigokus are running $15 per dozen, and other varieties are even less.

Today’s grand opening promises to be great fun, with prize drawings hourly and an action-packed schedule:

Live Music

  • 2-4pm: Squirrel Butter
  • 4:30-6:30pm: Zizzy zi Zixxy

Food

  • 1-7pm: BBQ oysters
  • 11:30am, 3:30pm, and 6:30pm: “Melrose” mussels
  • 4pm: Xinh Dwelley’s geoduck ceviche
  • 5pm: Xinh Dwelley’s curried mussels
  • 4:30-6:30pm: David Leck’s oysters on the half shell

Author Appearances/Book Signing

  • 11am-12pm: Oyster Bill Whitbeck–Joy of Oysters
  • 1-2pm: Sharon Montoya-Walsh–Oyster Cookery
  • 3-4pm: Becky Selengut–Good Fish

How-To demos

  • 11am and 1pm: oyster shucking with David Leck
  • 12pm and 3pm: crab cracking with Jon Rowley
  • 2pm: geoduck cleaning with Xinh Dwelley
  • 6pm: oyster shucking with Jon Rowley