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Crumble and Flake – Capitol Hill, Seattle

Posted by: Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs on: Thursday 10 May 2012

I’m a little homesick after a week in London. An Antipodean feels at home in the Old Dart. The accent, the vocabulary, the cuisine, the flag, ‘it’s the vibe‘! Our local bakery in Sydney was on my route home from work. I was tempted by their afternoon discounts of croissants, lamingtons, apple pies and vanilla [...]

La Bête – Capitol Hill, Seattle

Posted by: Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs on: Thursday 05 April 2012

La Bête has the lowest visibility of all the restaurants I’ve dined at in Seattle. Thankfully it was an early impromptu dinner and there was still plenty of natural light with daylight saving. Dark tones and dim chandeliers absorbed the dusk hues. The L shaped dining room had an intimate ambience. A spectacular wooden counter [...]

Dinette – Capitol Hill, Seattle

Posted by: Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs on: Wednesday 21 March 2012

I’m always nervous suggesting European restaurants to our French friends. Thankfully we loved the cosy ambience and homely fare of Dinette. I hummed the tune of ‘Four Seasons In One Day‘ by Crowded House all day. Snow, sleet, wind, rain. Repeat. There were moments of brilliant light, silver beams refracted off pewter clouds. On Olive [...]

The Calf and Kid Cheese 101 – Capitol Hill, Seattle

Posted by: Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs on: Wednesday 29 February 2012

We have been foiled in several attempts to dine at Sitka & Spruce in the past year. The first was a walk-in rejection with nearly an hour wait. The second was an abruptly terminated phone call when I requested a table for eight during the festive season. The third was a hasty retreat due to [...]

Café Presse – Capitol Hill, Seattle

Posted by: Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs on: Wednesday 22 February 2012

Our French friends scheduled a weekend brunch with French acquaintances and I flippantly mentioned Café Presse. I had a moment of panic as we walked up to Capitol Hill and realised we would be sharing a meal with five French people at a French restaurant that I suggested. I was relieved when I remembered Café Presse [...]

Oddfellows Café – Capitol Hill, Seattle

Posted by: Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs on: Monday 23 January 2012

The weekend was slick with rain. We revelled in the precipitation after a week of snow, sleet, hail, ice, slush and sub zero Celsius temperatures. Salt and pepper mounds of ice were the melting remnants of ‘snow-mageddon, snow-pocaplyse, Western Washington winter walloping’. We splashed up to Capitol Hill for brunch. Oddfellows Café was a convenient location for our hobbling [...]

Li’l Woody’s – Capitol Hill, Seattle

Posted by: Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs on: Thursday 19 January 2012

I’ve walked by Li’l Woody’s many times and I’ve seen their posters on light posts. Shirley and I finally went there for a weekday lunch on a wintry day. It was mostly cloudy and welcomed sunshine shimmered through the grey clouds intermittently. The snowstorm forecast provoked a sense of impending doom across Seattle but a meal at Li’l Woody’s will cheer up any [...]

Oddfellows Café – Capitol Hill, Seattle

Posted by: Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs on: Thursday 22 December 2011

The precipitation in Seattle is unique. When it rains in Sydney, you hear the splatter and you sense the impending storm. Here it tends to drizzle, too light for an umbrella but enough to sprinkle my glasses. At times it’s a drifting mist, dotting my coat with needlepoint droplets. It was such a day when I [...]

Poppy – Capitol Hill, Seattle

Posted by: Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs on: Wednesday 30 November 2011

We only knew a handful of people when we moved to Seattle. Ms D-R, an Irish American, has been hospitable and introduced us to some of her friends. We joined them this month at Poppy for their restaurant club. The ‘host’ is rotated each month and is responsible for selecting the restaurant and booking a table. [...]

Quinn’s – Capitol Hill, Seattle

Posted by: Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs on: Monday 14 November 2011

After a fun afternoon tenpin bowling at Garage Billiards, we sought reprieve from the darkness that was the end of daylight saving. The sister restaurant of the soon-to-be relocated Restaurant Zoë, Quinn’s gastropub is at the busy corner of Pike and 10th. I love the architecture of Capitol Hill. Single or double story buildings are converted into spacious [...]


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