In a year of rising labor costs, rising food costs, and rising everything-else costs, some people still committed the ultimate act of optimism: opening a restaurant. They did it with ambition, with ...

Downtown Olympia shops tend to be independent and a little kooky; 50-year-old Archibald Sisters sells not only delightful lotions but gag gifts and whimsical toys. Odds and Ends, new last year, fits ...

But the Nineveh food truck, which last year expanded into a full restaurant, is rare in both Olympia and the entire US. It focuses not on general Middle Eastern cuisine, but specifically Assyrian food ...

Just movin’ on: Pioneer Square’s Oh Sun Banchan announced that it will no longer operate as a café open to the public. The exact nature of their pivot isn’t completely clear, beyond closing the daily ...

For those of us who love to read, bookstores are magical: havens of endless possibility, smelling faintly of paper and coffee and stories. A favorite comment I’ve gotten from readers is that they see ...

It’s a story of very old-school connection, in which the main characters connect via a handwritten note left in a book at a neighborhood bookstore. Mistaken identity, confusion, and community ensue. I ...

The stretch of Interstate 5 between Seattle and Portland is lined with landmarks. There’s the weird sculptures in Toledo, the roadside Minion figure in a field near Maytown, and of course the Uncle ...

Seattle’s paradisiAcal dumpling scene leans heavily toward Chinese varieties, fitting for the birthplace of ...

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The gray-brown sauce dripping off the lamb neck pie at Little Beast matches the shade of gloom that so often graces the skies in both Seattle and London. As in the sky above the cities, this hue gives ...