To many this may look like nothing more than a snapshot you would find in your weekly grocery store papers, but for me it is something more. As I have found my way back onto the east coast from the very far west of Seattle and Portland, this picture from my personal catalog, of these ice packed crabs in the Pike Place Market marks one of the final stops on my five and a half week long road trip through the Mid-west and Northwest. (Sniffles.) While I’ve never been a crab connoissuer, I do love the west coast very much. Crabs and all – I am sad to have left, but I’m sure I’ll be back soon.
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Brasa Restaurant – Seattle, WA
Allow me to apologize before proceeding to discuss the incredibly mouth-watering meal my taste-buds recently tangoed with during dinner at Seattle’s Brasa Restaurant. I apologize because I attempted to take photos of my dishes, but the lighting was far from favorable for a food photo shoot and so I ditched the camera to nosh on my meal and give it full attention. So there – sorry.
Dinner at Brasa (‘live coals’)was a real treat compliment of my father who wanted to treat me and my friend to a post-marathon meal and Portuguese inspired foreign fare. It was also a huge change of pace when looking back at some of our previous dining destinations on our weeks long road-trip. In any event the atmosphere was cozy, intimate and warm. The hostess and wait staff were friendly and especially attentive, but onto the food! To start I had a Judy Jetson martini and ordered a cooked octopus appetizer to help move the wait along for the main course. Shortly after the meal I had been waiting for arrived and it was time to really get down. I was excited for one because I had never eaten monkfish before and the waitress made it sound absolutely to-die-for. My running and travel companion ordered the cod and after a short moment of silence and thanks we went in for the kill. It was like we had burned up everything in us from the race or like we hadn’t eaten for months. I found that the monkfish wasn’t exactly as great as the waitress described, but it had its fine tasting and texture qualities to it unlike other fish I’d tasted. Everything else was top-notch and I couldn’t have asked for a better post-race dining experience.
If you go take $$$ for a real nice meal, luckily mine was on my Dad! Check out their website for any additional details, like the menu for the month through from what I can tell it hasn’t been updated since June. Reservations recommended.
Brasa is located at 2107 Third Ave, Seattle, WA. Ph. 206.728.4220.
Seattle Getting New Art Park
Seattle is one of my favorite places in the world. I lived there for over five years off and on, and I would go
back tomorrow without a fuss. I left about six years ago, and since then the city has undergone vast changes, with new
museums, sprawling new developments in places like Ballard that were once sleepy fishing and industrial neighborhoods.
Paul Allen has had a big rile in this, and there was even a big article about him recently in the Times.
But it turns out that even bigger changes are afoot. According to this piece at CNN, there
is a massive plan to build a new artistic park along the waterfront. I couldn’t be happier. Give me parks over
skyscrapers and other industrial development ANY day. I mean, thank God that people had the foresight to build Central
Park in new York. The city without Central park would be 40 percent less than it is today. Anyway, the new development
is called the Olympic Sculpture Park and was designed to highlight the natural setting on the shores of Seattle’s
waterfront. The cost of the new park will be $85 million, some of which will also be used to clean up an area that was
contaminated from Seattle grittier past. What a great idea for a great city. Almost makes me want to plan a move back
before real estate prices get even worse there…if that’s possible.