New Year’s Eve typically entails lots of food, drink and Dick Clark’s live broadcast from Times Square — but what if you changed your homebody routine this year? Several of Seattle’s finest dining establishments will ring in 2012 with special menus and festive entertainment.
Located in the heart of Pike Place Market, Can Can Kitchen & Cabaret has been a Seattle fan favorite for decades. Complete with an underground stage, the beloved venue mirrors the Paris burlesque houses of the 1920s, and offers show-stopping, glitter-throwing shows that are sure to please any adult audience.
Holiday shopping will give you quite the appetite, and sometimes you need a great burger to satisfy that hunger. Enter Katsu Burger, is a hole-in-the-wall located in Georgetown. It’s an easy place to bypass, but don’t miss these mouth-watering, deep-fried Japanese burgers. The menu is full of uniquely named items such as the Tokyo Tower, Godzilla Attack and the Ninja Deluxe.
Pack these essential items to keep you warm and toasty during your winter wonderland getaway.
Winter is here and many of Seattle’s farmers markets have shut down for the season — most of them, anyway. This week, the resilient vendors of the West Seattle Farmers Market will brave the cold to bring you fresh, flavorful fare one last time before the holidays get into full swing.
It is no question that Seattle has produced great talent over the years, and one of these notable figures includes two-time Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist and Seattle icon David Horsey. Horsey’s work will be showcased at a fundraising event this month intended to benefit the people of Haiti.
Located in the northern part of the U. District, Wayward Vegan Cafe accepts people of all dietary backgrounds — and encourages them to sit next to each other when times get busy. Seriously, get cozy. This vegan greasy spoon is especially crowded on the weekends, when hungry visitors crave generous portions for breakfast and lunch.
Is your intelligence heightened after a good buzz? Do you have a keen (and rather embarrassing) knowledge of obscure information? Well, Geeks Who Drink (GWD) and Merchants Café and Saloon invite you to prove it at Pioneer Square’s Holiday Trivia Nights, which will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. on both Thursday, Dec. 22, and Thursday, Dec. 29.
Anchoring the middle stretch of 1st Avenue in Belltown, Local 360 is a central feature in the city’s movement towards locally-sourced cuisine. The number has meaning — the majority of products served at the eater come from within 400 miles of the city, booze included. All this makes for a tasty menu, and a downright steal when it comes to Happy Hour — though I’m sure the restaurant properly procures their goods.
With all the buzz surrounding the new restaurants opening on Capitol Hill or downtown every other week, we tend to neglect the perimeters of our city in terms of dining choices. This is probably why many of you have never heard of a little place called Copperleaf Restaurant inside the Cedarbrook Lodge hotel, located moments — yet, a world — away from Seatac Airport.
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