2 Things...one not food related...

First, a link to a Seattle Times article about Murray Stenson and The Last Word cocktail. Check it out!

Video Here:

And article here:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/restaurants/2008837441_zres11lastword.html?cmpid=2628

And...

Not by Watterson, but I love it anyway. Looking forward to reading them with my son.

~Jason

The Long Awaited Return of Sam Hassan

So.... I am absolutely overjoyed to report that Sam Hassan will soon be behind a stove again. The man behind the (great) Rio Brazilian Grill in the U-District and Samba in Maple Leaf is back, bigger, probably better, and out to knock yer socks off and put a nice twist on what us Americans think of "Bar Food".

The All Nations Soccer Bar and Restaurant will be opening (I hope very) soon at the former Mr. Bills on Aurora at 130th. I was lucky enough to get a chance to chat with Sam a week or so back and get the skinny on what he will be doing.

First off, (I gotta get this out of the way early, lol) those of you who ate at his Seward Park Pizza Rio will be pleased to know that he will resume making pizza. He hopes to start serving pies in 2 or 3 weeks. He plans on having delivery. Maybe I'll try it sometime. (Professional interest, of course)

He will, however, also have other types of food, and this is what gets my chops watering.

Bar Food. GOOD Bar Food. Not your standard Bar Food. As in he's calling them Tapas-type Bar Food. Chicken Wings? Natch, how would you like them?

West African Style?

Brazilian Style?

Vindaloo Style?

I think you get the idea. He's envisioning a place where soccer (or is it football?) fans from all over the world will be able to come and get the types of bar food that they would recognize from their home countries. Sounds like a great idea, and I really hope that he is able to execute it. I'm looking forward to Brazilian Crepes, Basque Stew, Grilled Seafood, ("Simple... Mediterannean Style") and to falling back in love with his feijoada and Brazilian Tri Tip and Brazilian Potato Salad. (Yeah, double that Tri Tip order, and a Xingu, please.) Beers from all over, imported (read: hard to find) cacachas, and pisco liquor from Peru.

Luckily, the space is big enough to have both a bar and a restaurant, so I'll be able to take my son Cooper there and see that he thinks. (He's two, so as long as there is something that he can eat with his hands, I'm sure he'll think it's great.)

EveryBlock Seattle lists the date for the Liquor License app as Feb. 6th, so hopefully it is making its way thru the process and I'll be able to get a drink, and a snack, there soon.

All Nations Soccer Bar and Restaurant

930 N. 130th. Street

Seattle

Congrats to Murray....Again!

My Man Murray has received some great press lately courtesy of the New York Times. See here and here

Congrats, Murray!

~Jason

Wait a fucking minute...are you kidding me?

Ok, I'll come right out and say it....

I HATED The Big Lebowski. Hated it, Hated it, Hated it. Yeah, I know everyone (and I mean EVERYONE) besides me loves it, but like The Beatles, "Clerks", and to a lesser extent "Office Space" I just don't get it.

I somehow forgot how to do links, so for now, please click on the title of this post for the NY Times article that I am ranting about. Thanks, and Sorry...

This was news, like, 10 years ago.

WTF???

~Jason

Something a little different Redux...

So Cool...



This one is good too...



And this one is just funny...Metallica!



Enjoy!

~Jason

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Paulie Walnuts Does Denny's!

Awesome...Totally Awesome!



My dad, with his partner, (hereafter lovingly known as Uncle Jerry,) bought into the Denny's Franchise in Longview, WA in late 1970 and we, (Mom, Dad, and I) moved there in 1971. (As an aside, family legend has it that they had considered buying into a company that was starting to expand, but one of the partners, and I've never really been able to ascertain who, talked the other one out of it. "Hamburgers" the story goes..."Not gonna go anywhere". The "Hamburger" place that he spoke of was ((of course)) McDonald's, and I later heard that for awhile in the 1980's it was one of, if not the busiest, McDonald's in Washington.)

Anyway, I spent many, MANY hours playing in the back, sitting at the counter chatting with the regulars, and eating lots (and LOTS) of just about everything on the menu.

I probably would have thought Paulie Walnuts was a cool old man, and would have probably bugged the hell out of him everytime he came in to eat.

~Jason

Dead Nightclubs of Seattle

I was young, and missed a lot of it, but I remember quite a few of these places, and spent some fun times (and saw some great music...) Not to mention Valentine's Day at the Vogue that one year... ;)

Those were the Daze...

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/musicnightlife/2004154856_deadclubs31.html

~Jason

The train HAS left the station...

(Seriously, Jason? Almost a year since your last post? What kind of blog is this, anyway?)

Andy's Diner is closing.

R.I.P....

Hope that something cool happens to all of those old railcars.

~Jason

New Posts!

Not from me, however....

Check out the new posts by earleybird to the right...(Fried Chicken is for Lovers....) Funny!

~Jason