Posted by: Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs on: Wednesday 23 May 2012
I had noticed construction at Westlake Woodwerk several months ago. I always peeked into the wooden toy workshop when I walked by where the craftsmen working by the window in the natural light. The owners of Eurostyle Your Life has opened Café Suisse in the space. I had visited Switzerland once when I was a child [...]
Posted by: Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs on: Tuesday 24 April 2012
It was a blissful afternoon of shopping in Portland. Alder & Co., Canoe, Flora, Hive and Woonwinkel were a modern collection of stores with curated homeware, jewellery, artworks and furniture. The contemporary aesthetics and stylish designs were stimulating! We re-caffeinated at Caffe Allora and joined the queue at Ken’s Artisan Pizza for dinner. We were [...]
Posted by: Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs on: Monday 02 April 2012
My previous attempts to visit The Meadow in Portland and New York were cancelled by illness and foiled by Hurricane Irene. I was enchanted by the charismatic Mark Bitterman at a potluck last year and had imagined The Meadow as a quaint boutique. Located on the hip Mississippi Avenue in Portland, The Meadow is a [...]
Posted by: Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs on: Tuesday 06 March 2012
This is a belated final post of my trip home in November. It’s been just over three months since I was in Australia and in that time we’ve had our first full winter in Seattle. There’s been plenty of rain, snow, sleet, wind and hail. But there have also been enough glorious days to sustain [...]
Posted by: Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs on: Monday 20 February 2012
After a delicious lunch at emmer&rye we meandered down a block to Café de Lion for sweet treats. Named after the owners’ son, the logo of a crown and lion’s head was prominent on a textured frame. The café was decorated in an eclectic style with chocolate walls and miniature Eiffel Towers dotted throughout. Classic French [...]
Posted by: Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs on: Thursday 26 January 2012
Sydney has more than seven times the population of Seattle but sometimes it feels like both cities have the same volume of traffic. It was gridlock en route to The Pantry at Delancey‘s Back to the Basics cooking class on a weeknight. I slowly inched towards Ballard, anxious about being on time. I noted a [...]