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Greek Easter at Vios on Sunday 04.09.12
Our traditional Easter Sunday might be over, but now’s your chance to celebrate Easter like they do in Greece! That’s right, Greek Easter is coming up on Sunday, April 15 and you can take part in the festivities at Vios Cafe & Marketplace from 1-3 p.m.
As told by the Capitol Hill Blog and Seattle Weekly, Vios has a long tradition on Capitol Hill and in years past, chef-owner Thomas Soukakos (pictured above) has invited friends, family and neighbors to the restaurant for a private Greek Easter celebration. Now he is opening his doors for the first time for others to experience the Greek holiday and we can’t wait! The nine-course Easter lunch will include many Greek Easter traditions including a whole spit roasted lamb and mayiritsa, a traditional soup eaten at midnight on Easter morning after attending church.
Below is a sneak peak of the tasty, traditional Greek Easter menu. Read on, lick those lips and make your reservations for Sunday by calling (206) 329-3236 or online.
Mezze Plates
Lamb Loukaniko with cumin and orange
Stuffed Grape Leaves and Tzatziki
Spinach and Feta Pie
Fava with red onion and fried capers
Entree
Orzo with tomato sauce and mythithra
Kretan Dako Salata with tomato and feta
Roasted Potatoes with Oregano and lemon
Spit Roasted Lamb
Desserts
Apricot –Pistachio Baklava with orange and cardamom
Koulourakia –Greek Cookies
Just $35 per person, $12 for kids over 10 years of age (under 10 can order from the regular kids menu). Only offered at the Capitol Hill location.TAGS: Capitol Hill, Easter, Greek Easter, spit roasted lamb, Thomas Soukakos, Vios
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Lucky 8s China House offers tax breaks 04.06.12
Lucky 8s China House is helping drown those tax payment sorrows and alleviate the stressful deadlines all while saving taxpayers a few bucks. Instead of worrying about Uncle Sam, taxpayers can drink up for a deal!
From Sunday, April 8 through Sunday, April 22 Lucky 8s will be taking its popular weekday happy hour menu and extending the early run (usually 4-6 p.m.) until 7 p.m. and through the weekend. In addition, they will also be serving up their signature cocktails for just $4 (50% off the regular $8) from 4-7 p.m. as well. The signature cocktails include unique preparations and top shelf liquor, such as the Dragon’s Breath with Oola Pepper Vodka, Wolfberry syrup, Aperol, and grapefruit; the Gin And Juice with gin, muddled with fresh cucumbers, lychee and lime, and soda; and the Broken Spoke with Bulleit Bourbon, Maraschino and Chartreuse.
For happy hour, fill up on items for as little as $1, including the Marbled Tea Egg (tea soaked with Chinese spices), Szechuan Rib ($2), Pork Bao ($2.50) and Chinese Long Beans ($2.50).
You’ll have 14 days to drink those tax sorrows away – or celebrate if you’re lucky enough to get a tax return! In that case, drinks are on you!TAGS: happy hour, Lucky 8s China House, tax breaks
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SRW “Eat and Seek” QR Contest! How savvy are your dining skills? 04.06.12
As if a $28 three-course meal isn’t enticing enough, The Seattle Restaurant Cooperative and The Seattle Times is spicing up Seattle Restaurant Week with a QR code contest to win some hard to beat prizes. Don’t count yourself out for this one. All you need is an appetite, a smartphone, and some savvy seeking skills.
Here’s how it will work – Starting April 8, participating restaurants will be hiding a QR code somewhere in their restaurant. When you arrive, the seeking begins and it’s your job to craftily seek out where the QR may be. Once you find it, scan the barcode with either an iPhone or Android smartphone. This will automatically enter you to win a variety of prizes including:
Grand Prize:
A hotel stay for two at Mayflower Park Hotel with parking and breakfast for two at Andaluca.
A progressive dinner at Nell’s Restaurant, Seastar Restaurant & Raw Bar, and Dahlia Lounge.
First Prize:
A $75 gift card to Flying Fish
Second Prize:
A $50 gift card to Tilth restaurant
Each diner can only scan the code once within a 24-hour period. If we’re doing our math correctly, this will give you 10 days to dash around different restaurants and find their QR code. We hear you… what’s a contest without a few clues along the way, right? Leave it to SRW to make this contest even easier, with some added “umph” to your savvy competitive side. Facebook will keep you up to speed as well as following #EatnSeek, @SeattleRW and any of the participating restaurants on Twitter. Together, these platforms will be providing clues to help guide you in the right direction.
Don’t be fooled, you don’t have to be tech savvy to win this one. After all, this may be the one and only time it becomes politically correct to whip out your cell phone during dinner…don’t miss the opportunity!
TAGS: #EatnSeek, Andaluca, android, contest, Dining, dining deals, Eat and Seek, Flying Fish, gift certificate, hotel, hotel stay for two, iphone, local celebrity chefs, Mayflower Park Hotel, prizes, progressive dinner, QR, QR code, Seastar Restaurant and Raw Bar, Seattle,
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Foodie-lovers, Seattle Restaurant Week is back! 04.04.12
March brought us the anticipated arrival of top chart movie the Hunger Games and captured the attention of many here in the Pacific Northwest. Now April has arrived and is ready to give last month a run for its money in rolling out a more exciting and satisfying way to enchant diners’ hunger and get those taste buds dancing. That’s right, it’s time for food and wine fanatics to kick off the start of spring with Seattle Restaurant Week here in the Puget Sound.
From April 8-12 and 15-19 (excluding each Friday and Saturday), over 150 of Seattle’s most talked about restaurants will offer a specially prepared three-course dinner for $28 per person, with specific restaurants offering an additional three-course lunch for $15. Each prix-fixe menu will feature an appetizer, entrée and dessert, with at least three options under each course. And yes, to all of you dessert ditchers out there, this leaves you no excuse to pass up the delectable desserts that you’ve secretly been waiting to dive into post dinner!
With over 150 restaurants participating this season, odds are you won’t have to get lucky to discover a new favorite place to dine in Seattle’s sea of culinary expertise. We highly recommend trying a few of our favorites including Cafe Flora (pictured above), Tilth, Golden Beetle, and Crush. Seattle Restaurant Cooperative and the media partner, The Seattle Times, have given this season’s one-of-a-kind celebration a special touch by adding 25 NEW restaurants to partake in the list. Restaurants will now cover more of King County, making it easier to find a restaurant near you.
Invite all your foodie-loving friends, call and make a reservation (not required but highly encouraged) and learn to become your own food critic from an array of delectable dishes in store for you. We’d love to read comments from our readers about the hottest spots you’re finding this year and the best dishes that are making this week a memorable dining celebration!
Be sure to keep up with the action through Facebook and Twitter for upcoming news and some seriously unbeatable giveaways.TAGS: $15 lunches, $28 dinners, 150 restaurants, Cafe Flora, celebration, Crush, dining deals, food, Golden Beetle, prix-fixe meal, Seattle Restaurant Cooperative, Seattle Restaurant Week, SRW, The Seattle Times, three-course meal, Tilth
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Creative, Diverse Cocktails Lead New Menu at Tini Bigs 04.04.12
Fifteen years as Seattle’s “Second Best Cocktail Lounge” doesn’t stop the creative juices flowing at Tini Bigs. The talented bartenders including Shane Sahr (cocktail shaking above), Ian Cargill, Michael Cadden and gm Joe Zara pulled ideas from classic cocktails, new techniques, childhood-inspired fun and health trends for the new cocktail menu starting April 9.
Here’s a few teasers to entice you to clear your calendar on April 9 – and every cocktail hour after!
Slow Ride, a sipping cocktail centered around a frozen cube of fresh lemon juice, cucumber and rosemary that slowly melts and mixes with the gin, Dolin Blanc and Maraschino liquor that surrounds the herbaceous cube.
Inspired by childhood memories of icicle pops is the Deep Freeze Classic. A frozen Sidecar, the cocktail is packaged in a plastic sleeve and frozen at negative twenty degrees. The Deep Freeze Classic will receive many interpretations from classic cocktails through the end of summer.
For the health inspired, another Tini Bigs juicer cocktail. The Good & Evil features fresh carrot juice, Pisco, lemon juice, honey water and egg white with a unique garnish of the Tini Bigs logo created from Angostura in the atomizer.
The Red Dawn brings a new variation to a Dark & Stormy created with Gosling’s Black Seal Rum, red wine, habanero tincture and ginger beer.
The Zu-Lander takes island lavender tincture, Zu Bison Grass Vodka, Crème de Violet, lemon juice and simple syrup garnished with lavender petals.
Saffron tincture is artfully combined with gin, fresh lemon juice, simple syrup and egg white for the Saffron Sour, complete with a garnish of fresh spinach juice and saffron tincture drops, reminiscent of a summer flower.
Another 5 cocktails round out the new menu with each cocktail priced at $10. Come April 9 you can see what all the talk is about, too!TAGS: cocktails, Deep Freeze Classic, Good & Evil, housemade tinctures, new menu, Red Dawn, Saffron Sour, Slow Ride, Tini Bigs, Zu-Lander
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Lucky 8s launches bicycle delivery, Childhaven partnership 04.02.12
LUCKY 8s LAUNCHES BICYCLE DELIVERY WITH CHILDHAVEN BIKE HELMET DRIVE
Weeklong kids bicycle helmet donations & perks for donors
The playful, retro Lucky 8s China House restaurant is launching its much anticipated bicycle delivery to Capitol Hill residents while also encouraging diners to support Childhaven with children’s bicycle helmet donations. The weeklong helmet drive is going on now and will continue through April 7.
Lucky 8s is distinguishing itself as the only bicycle delivery and Chinese food delivery in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of 14th and Union. Lucky 8s is delivering dinner orders by bike from 5-10 p.m. for no delivery charge through April 7. Usually a $25 minimum for delivery, the restaurant is also giving a complimentary entree of vegetarian fried rice with each delivery order, a $7.95 value. Bicycle delivery is limited to the perimeter of 23rd Avenue, Boren Avenue, E Yesler Way and Volunteer Park.
In addition to the weeklong promotion, Lucky 8s is encouraging its diners to donate kids bicycle helmets at Lucky 8s or by donating the helmet to Lucky 8s’ bicycle delivery driver. The donations will be given to Childhaven, also located on Capitol Hill. The organization has been serving abused and neglected children for over 100 year. The helmets will go to children to fulfill birthday and Christmas wishes. Lucky 8s is giving each donor a coupon for a free lunch as a thank you for the Childhaven donation.
Lucky 8s owner, Bracey Rogers, says “We wanted to launch our bicycle delivery service while also giving back to our local community. Childhaven is a meaningful cause that’s right in our neighborhood and we hope that our Capitol Hill neighbors will be motivated to answer the wishes of Childhaven supported children.”
About Childhaven
Childhaven prevents and stops the cycle of abuse and neglect through scientifically-supported programs that protect and treat children one month through five years and their families. Please join in making a difference for these children and for our community. Visit online at http://www.childhaven.org/.
About Lucky 8s China House
Lucky 8s China House gives way to a housemade menu of retro Chinese food, a cheeky interior and a playful edge that distinguishes itself in the up and coming 14th & Union neighborhood of Seattle’s Capitol Hill. Its 2012 opening fills a niche for Chinese delivery food while also providing twice daily weekday happy hour, late night weekend happy hour, affordable lunch during the work week and dinner seven days a week. Experience a menu featuring recognizable Chinese favorites paired with various specialty cocktails, reasonably priced wines and an assortment of beers. Relax at the bar while waiting for takeout, hop in for a quick lunch, dine in with accompanying kung fu movies playing on the wall, or enjoy Lucky 8s in the comfort of your own home with its bicycle delivery service. Located at 1407 14th Avenue, Seattle. find Lucky 8s China House online, on Facebook and Twitter.TAGS: bicycle delivery, bicycle helmets, Capitol Hill, Childhaven, free delivery, free food, Lucky 8s China House
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Tini Bigs raises the bar with new food menu 03.30.12
At Tini Bigs, the focus has always been on cocktails, but now the rising culinary scene in Seattle is giving Tini Bigs an opportunity to have their food compete with their craft cocktails.
Hungry guests will now be able to pair great food prepared with local ingredients, enjoyed in the classic Tini Bigs atmosphere with signature 10 oz. martinis. The new menu at Tini Bigs is now being offered nightly from 4 to 11 p.m. Monday-Thursday and 4 p.m. to midnight Friday-Saturday.
You’ll still find favorites including the burger and mac n’ cheese, but the new menu also features such items as the Quinoa Salad with kale, fennel and golden raisins, BBQ Pork Belly with pan bread and kale, Housemade Flat Breads with red onion, garlic oil and Grana Padano, Chicken and Waffle with mesquite maple honey and Duck Frites with a poached egg and mustard cream. Tini Bigs also features daily specials and happy hour 4-6 p.m. for a fifty percent discount (some items not included; not valid on Key Arena event dates).
Desserts continue to be in the liquid form with such sweet options as the famed Dirty Girl Scout and Spanish Tini.
Head into Tini Bigs for cocktails and dinner tonight!TAGS: happy hour, liquid desserts, martini lounge, new menu, Tini Bigs
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Welcoming Vios Cafe & Marketplace as our new client! 03.23.12
Many know Vios Café & Marketplace for its genuine hospitality, authentic and inspired Greek food, and the warm nature of chef-owner Thomas Soukakos. We are thrilled to be working with Thomas and his restaruant family at Vios! Rustic and comfortable, families with children, couples and groups feel the generous spirit and celebrated food as translated through Thomas and his culinary talents. A mainstay for Seattle families, stay tuned for celebrations, exciting news and more in the coming months! We look forward to gathering around the table with family, friends, Thomas and you at Vios!
Check them out online and on Facebook!TAGS: Greek food, new client, Thomas Soukakos, Vios
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Mad Men Premiere Party at Tini Bigs 03.23.12
If you are a Mad Men fan then you are counting down the hours until the Season 5 premiere on Sunday! Well, your premiere party is about to get even better with $6 Mad Men approved cocktails made by the experts at Tini Bigs! Need more incentive? Tini Bigs is encouraging you to dress up in your favorite Don Draper, Betty Francis or any cast member attire for the night (fab fashion looks here)! Sound for both airings (at 9 p.m. and 11 p.m.) will be on full blast so no lip reading required. Check out the additional details from Seattle Met!
We’ll see you on Sunday!TAGS: Mad Men, season 5 premiere, Tini Bigs
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Yakima’s Thurston Wolfe is Winery Of The Year 03.22.12
Congratulations to Yakima Valley’s Thurston Wolfe for being awarded Wine Press Northwest’s Winery of the Year! The winery’s “indelible marks on Washington wine country” is what earned them this award, along with years of hard work and crafting some of the region’s best wines. Winemaker Dr. Wade Wolfe has done it all in the industry, including being a large part of establishing the Columbia Valley AVA in the mid 1980’s and viticulturist.
Pick up your copy of Wine Press Northwest on newsstands now and read the full story of the winery’s start in 1987 and how it is a leader in the Washington wine industry today! Taste the wines, available on many store shelves, or take a trip to Prosser, visit Wade in the tasting room and experience the Winery of the Year – Thurston Wolfe!TAGS: awards, Dr. Wade Wolfe, Thurston Wolfe, Wine Press Northwest, Wine Yakima Valley, Winery of the Year, Yakima Valley
