If you’ve traveled anywhere throughout Spain, you’ll feel a distinct and comforting déjà-vu when you slip into the Gastown neighborhood’s cozy (and aptly-named) Sardine Can. Though the narrow,...
Grazers: The Sardine Can
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Lompoc Brewing C-Note Imperial Pale Ale
Cravings—everybody gets them. Sometimes the dreaded need for chocolate hits you, other times it’s a mouthwatering need for a salty snack and every now and again the desire for a bitter delight...
Local Proof: Washington Cranberry Juice Tarts Up Cocktails
Forget the cranberry “juice” found in plastic jugs in the supermarket. Next time you want to add tart, rich cranberry flavor to cocktails, think fresh, small batch and organic. Starvation Alley...
In Preview: Pacific Northwest Brew Cup
On Oregon's northern coastline, the final weekend of September means beer mugs, tasting tokens, food and friends among the changing foliage. For the thirteenth year, the Pacific Northwest Brew Cup...
Eau Vivre Winery & Vineyards Cabernet Franc 2012
I like British Columbian Cabernet Franc. But I really, really like BC Cab Franc when winemakers don’t try and trick it up with heavy oak and extraction, but rather just let it be its brambly,...
Drifters: Hyatt Regency Bellevue
You know when you’re traveling for business, maybe for a conference, and you check into a nameless, faceless, bland and boring business hotel and dine on bland and boring banquet food and have...