Apr 14, 2011

Over the past two days, I have consumed the best donuts I have ever eaten in my life. I say this without an ounce of hyperbole. I like Krispy Kreme, and Dunkin’ Donuts are just fine, but both Top Pot Hand-Forged Doughnuts and Mighty-O Donuts are true “gourmet” doughnuts that stand head and shoulders above the national chains. After eating...

Apr 14, 2011

Another day, another donut shop. Today, my goal was to complete the shootout for best donut in Seattle … and by proxy, best donut in the solar system. After yesterday’s trip to Top Pot Hand-Forged Doughnuts, it was time to go to the Food Channel’s winner for Best Donut Shop in the USA … Mighty-O Donuts. At around noon, I hopped on my...

Apr 13, 2011

Not long ago, two donut shops in Seattle were in the running for Food Network’s “Best Donut Shop in the Nation”. Those two shops were Top Pot Hand-Forged Doughnuts and Mighty-O Donuts. Mighty-O prevailed. Story: http://www.q13fox.com/news/kcpq-mighty-o-donut-duel-20110411,0,4776001.story Now, personally, I don’t eat a lot of sweets. At ...

Apr 12, 2011

Built in 1985, the Columbia Center is the 7th tallest building in the USA, and at 932 feet, it is the tallest building in the entire Pacific Northwest. The building has 76 floors, 46 elevators, and the antennas on the roof bring the total height to 967′. While the Space Needle is Seattle’s Statue of Liberty, the Columbia Center is our Sears Tower. ...

Apr 9, 2011

I’m not a big hot dog fan. I’m not sure why, I just never developed a taste for tube steak, but there was one exception. When I used to go to Toronto back in the 90′s, there was a hot dog cart downtown that made what I thought were the best hot dogs on earth. They put a dog in a pretzel bun, smothered it in sauerkraut, and laced it with...

Mar 31, 2011

At about 9am this morning, I left home with my family en-route to Broadway Market for a little pre-weekend grocery shopping. Weekday mornings are prime if you hate standing in line, and standing in line is something that I detest more than anything. As we were climbing Mount Pine Street, led by two sherpas, I checked my Android to see if anything interesting...

Mar 26, 2011

With the exception of Subway, I greatly dislike fast food. McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Taco Bell … it’s all kind of gross to me. The last time I ate fast food was at a Taco Bell in SoDo, and they didn’t bother to cook the beans in my burrito. They were still powdered, and it was so nasty that I vowed to never again darken the doorstep of a national...

Mar 5, 2011

For a few weeks now, I’ve been wanting to try the new Dope Burger in Belltown. Why? Because of a scathing review in the Seattle Weekly. When I first read the above piece, something about it just seemed wrong. The writer had nothing good to say about the place, and the entire segment seemed like a hissy fit of self-indulgent faux-intellectualism (a niche I...

Feb 21, 2011

A few weeks ago, I found a flyer in my building announcing PUSAfest ’11 at the Showbox, and I made the decision to go. Unfortunately, I procrastinated a bit, waiting until a week before the gig to purchase tickets. There were three shows, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday night, and I wanted to go on Friday. First, I pulled up the Ticketmaster site and...

Feb 19, 2011

I like the Pike/Pine area of Capitol Hill. It’s got a “Brooklyn on a Hill” thing going on. It’s dense, it’s walkable, it’s reasonably affordable by inner-city standards, it’s just dirty enough not to feel sterile, it’s not so filthy as to feel Mott Haven-y, and the views of downtown are great. Were it not for...

Feb 16, 2011

I remember when I reviewed things back in Vegas, people would sometimes email me and say things like “Rex, I’m not sure if I can trust your judgement because it seems as though you like everything you review”. Heck, people even made this comment to my face a couple of times. Unfortunately, this is another area in which I am simply...

Feb 3, 2011

People coming to this article via search engine are going to be so disappointed. I was sitting in my nerd cave this morning, when all of a sudden, I was overwhelmed with a sudden urge for beef. What can I tell you, I’m a lot like your mother. I went through my mental rolodex to figure out where I would procure my meat, much like your m … never mind...

Jan 25, 2011

Yesterday, I was in the mood for some pizza. Of all of the food to crave in Seattle, this is probably the worst thing to crave. For a Downtown that’s a slice of Manhattan, pizza in Seattle’s core is a slice of food court. This is a seafood town and the pizza here is weaker than in most large cities. There just aren’t that many restaurants to...

Jan 19, 2011

One of the best things about living in Downtown Seattle is having easy pedestrian access to Pike Place Market. The Market is a good place to get fresh fish/produce to take home, and is also a good place to grab a quick lunch on the go. A new addiction I have cultivated in the last month or so is the Seafood Bisque at a place called ‘Pike Place...

Jan 4, 2011

I like to hit up this little Asian food joint on a nondescript stretch of 4th Ave. $9 Spider Rolls (soft shell crab sushi) is a really good deal. They aren’t as high-end as some of the more expensive joints (the crab isn’t crunchy and overflowing from the roll), but it satisfies 90% of the craving for about 50% of the price. That makes it a pretty...