The Bon Vivant Blog

Well – outside of Vietnam – this is one of the best vietnamese restaurants in which I have eaten. It satisfies the trifecta of great eating – the food is fresh, tasty AND cheap. Can you believe it cost just over $50 (including tip) for a meal for 5 people with seafood/meat dishes!!!! I guess [...]

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During the obligatory visit to Pike Place Market (post-Victrola), we wandered around and found this place – packed with people, waiting to pounce when they brought out another tray of their penne and cheese. We tried both the “Mariachi Mac & Cheese” and their traditional Mac & Cheese – and both were good. Were they [...]

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As the Seattle trip was all about the food, and we knew that Seattle has a great coffee scene, we decided to find out what this good coffee thing was all about. Looking around on chowhound, we found this place, and as it was just a short hike up the hill from downtown, we decided [...]

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Its website tells the story, “Began in February 2002 out of a small brick storefront on north Capitol Hill in Seattle, Top Pot paired a vintage aesthetic with a gourmet spin on the old “coffee and doughnuts” routine. “And that pretty much sums it up. These are great, huge, cake-like doughnuts. The decor is straight [...]

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The picture above says it all. Simple food – meat and cheese. Salumi (singular: salume), as our friends at Wikipedia tell us, are meat products which are usually cured and predominantly made from pork. Everything about that last sentence was beautiful. But wait – that meat in the picture above was cured in-house, by people [...]

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We found this place on (as usual) chowhound.com and it sounded like a place not to miss while in Seattle. It was opened by a local chef, John Sundstrom who had achieved quite a popular local following working in other notable Seattle restaurants such as Campagne and Dahlia Lounge. Knowing that Lark didn’t take reservations, [...]

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T: While waiting for our table at Lark, it was suggested to us by the maitre d’ at Lark that we drop by next door at Licorous – the bar owned by the same people as own Lark. Two words: Great idea. A super-funky bar, big enough to be comfortable but not so big that [...]

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