The doomsayers of the restaurant industry have yet to prove correct—at least in the Seattle area. New openings have bounced back, big-time, and the rate of closures continues to be lower than pre-pandemic. Lots more here—including a fire at Glo's?! seattletimes.com/life/food-drin…

Here’s where we can still get Seattle’s best salad—plus 11 more things to eat when it’s too hot! seattletimes.com/life/food-drin…

The people who make your food, and love doing it, still have nightmares about performing the work they love. Thanks Bethany Jean Clement seattletimes.com/life/food-drin…

What do real chefs running real restaurants think of the high drama of The Bear? The Seattle all-stars I asked have a lot—A LOT—to say, inc. CafeJuanita Tamara Murphy Wayne Johnson and many more🔥🔪🐻 seattletimes.com/life/food-drin…

Here’s the recipe for a top Seattle restaurant’s all-time-great gluten-free cake (and the weather on Tuesday looks—finally!—fine for baking)🧈♥️ seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-mag…

My story on where to get the sandwich made famous on The Bear in Seattle is up and DAMN IT’S GOOD seattletimes.com/life/food-drin…

Hey, hi! I’ll be on Soundside at 8 p.m. tonight talking about The Bear, and the triggering that local chefs feel from it, and the ways it portrays the restaurant industry, all THE YELLING, and more, with Libby Denkmann🐻🔪🔥 📸 by Matt Dinerstein/FX

ICYMI—so meaningful to talk about thoughtful, heartfelt and sometimes pained responses from Melissa Miranda, Tamara Murphy Wayne Johnson CafeJuanita and more yesterday on Soundside—here's the audio🔪📻 kuow.org/stories/seattl…

🌽 IT'S CORN! 🌽 A big lump with knobs, it has the juice — and not much tastes better than fresh, local sweet corn. After you've eaten your fill of it on its delicious own, try making Bethany Jean Clement's sweet corn salad. st.news/3Rl95RY

Calling all fans of Pagliacci Pizza’s old-school pesto pasta salad—yes, they actually discontinued it (!?!?!), and no, they won’t give out the recipe, BUT YES I have painstakingly reverse-engineered it for posterity! Travails and recipe right this way 💚 seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-mag…

I LIVE TO SERVE [deep bow]

If you’re just trying to get by, does Costco have the best prices? (New The Seattle Times story accompanied by beautiful photos of grocery basics floating in a paradisiacal blue sky by the incomparable Erika J. Schultz🥫♥️) seattletimes.com/life/food-drin…

It’s difficult to describe Ltd Edition Sushi without sounding hyperbolic, but, truly, the otoro — tasting like a fluffy pink sunset cloud over the ocean — made me cry, just a little, a few tears out of each eye. It’s a joy to present this review 🍣🍶🍻 seattletimes.com/life/food-drin…

Beloved place for dates/birthdays/happy hours/many martinis over the years — this one really hurts. Talked to co-owner Greg Lundgren about prospects for Vito's reopening — fingers very crossed🍸♥️ seattletimes.com/life/food-drin…

There’s something about grief and soup. Bethany Jean Clement gets it. seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-mag…

My phone was acting weird and it was my birthday and then all my memories/feelings surrounding chili kind of broke my brain and this is the very weird essay that resulted (with a huge shout-out to Whitney Ricketts ✊ and also to my mom)🫘♥️ seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-mag…

Doing a little moonlighting as… sportswriter!? If you’re ready to hop on the Seattle Mariners bandwagon, I’m here to help—how playoffz workz, what to say, what to definitely NOT say, when to drink, etc.⚾️🍻🔱💙 seattletimes.com/life/the-baseb…

Went to check out Canlis chef Aisha Ibrahim's Seattle favorite for dim sum—she recommends Joyale, where carts roll far and wide around the palatial space and the egg tarts are especially good and so is the bank of vending machines...🥟🫖🐙 seattletimes.com/life/food-drin…

Seattle's massively beloved Joe Bar—in the gorgeous historic Loveless Building for 25 years (!?!?!)—will close forever October 26. I went to start to say goodbye and look at the last art show ("The End") and, well, cry☕️♥️ seattletimes.com/life/food-drin…