Skillet and Tilth's Happy Hour; Smith's Canada Day Party:
HAPPY HOURS— Skillet and Tilth now have happy hour. Skillet's "Golden Hour" runs daily from 3 to 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. to close at its Ballard and Capitol Hill locations; Tilth's happy hour stats up tomorrow, running daily from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. with a menu that changes monthly. And pregnant ladies: A reminder that in addition to empanadas and booze, La Bodega serves tropical virgin drinks,...
Smith's Adorable & Approachable Marley Tomic Beard:
Marley Tomic Beard, a Boston transplant with a well-deserved reputation for creating incredible drinks using interesting combinations of spirits and flavors, has recently taken the role of bar manager at Smith, one of Linda Derschang's popular neighborhood watering holes on Capitol Hill. Marley began working at Licorous and Bathtub Gin shortly after moving to Seattle four years ago; loyal...
Hunting lodge-meets-prep school-meets-Capitol Hill hip at Linda Derschang's (of Oddfellows and Linda's) always-busy eatery on 15th Avenue E, a short walk northeast of the Pike-Pine corridor. Taxidermied birds and cheeky oil portraits of ex-presidents fill the walls, and dark booths invite lingering and sipping. Flank steak here is expertly prepared—substitute sweet-potato fries for the regular...
Smith Rolls Back Prices to 2007; New Laotian Café in Columbia City:
CAPITOL HILL—Linda Derschang's upscale pub Smith celebrates its fifth anniversary tonight by rolling back prices to 2007. [EaterWire]
COLUMBIA CITY—Vientian Asian Grocery now has a small café operating on site. [Chowhound]
FREMONT—Elemental@Gaworks and Elemental Next Door closed over the weekend, and Seattle Met's restaurant reviewer Kathryn Robinson is not sorry to see it go. [Seattle Met]
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