Restaurant review: Kauai Family Restaurant

While in south Seattle to attend a Polynesian festival (which turned out to be disappointing), we left and went to lunch at a small family restaurant in the Georgetown neighborhood in south Seattle.  It was located in a out-of-the-way industrial area. When we arrived around noon, the restaurant was full, and there was a short wait….

Restaurant review: Din Tai Fung – Tukwila

Din Tai Fung is an international chain of chinese restaurants, originating from Taiwan, with branches throughout asia, as well as in the western United States (in California and Washington state).  Their Hong Kong location earned a coveted Michelin star in 2010. During a weekend getaway in south Seattle, we visited Din Tai Fung In the Westfield…

Seattle Street Food Festival: Nosh the Truck

On a warm sunny weekend, we drove to Seattle to take in the Street Food Festival along North 9th Avenue. After wandering the length of the food festival, we settled on Nosh the Truck. The drawing point for us was the fish & chips that we saw others carrying around the festival. There was a…

Street food review: Seattle Street Food Fest

For Food-Day Trip to Seattle, we decided to check out the Street Food Festival, consisting of some 40+ food trucks, and another 25+ tents lined up along Ninth Avenue near Denny Park. I spotted Delfino’s Chicago Pizza truck.  I’ve not sampled a “real” deep dish pizza.  I vaguely recall going to a greek restaurant in Vancouver during…

Restaurant review: Palamino

For a day-trip to Seattle to catch a matinee at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, we stopped for a quick lunch at Palamino. This is a chain of contemporary european bistro with locations in Chicago, Seattle, Bellevue, Cincinnati, Dallas, Indianapolis and Los Angeles. The restaurant is located on the upper floor of a small shopping center. We were…

Restaurant review: Ivar’s Seafood Bar

I had a difficult time deciding whether or not to write this review. I have some unwritten rules that I blog by. One of them is “no fast food chains”. Really, who’s going to want to read the review of McDonald’s or KFC? Well this falls into a grey area.  Ivar’s is an established chain…