For 100 reasons, the biggest of which was the pandemic, I missed out on the 2020 Pierce County fresh berry season. Flash forward to 2021 and it’s safe to say I’ve more than made up for what I was not able to buy last summer. I spent $75 at produce stands over the weekend. There’s […]
New Camp Colvos Brewing opens in Tacoma with NY style pizza, here’s a first look
Camp Colvos Brewing opened in downtown Tacoma on Wednesday, June 30, 2021. Pizza lovers will love this: the menu features fat slices of New York style pizza. The Tacoma opening is an expansion for the Vashon Island based brewery that was founded by Matthew Lawrence. Lawrence opened his first Vashon taproom two years ago, but […]
Here are 50+ new Tacoma restaurants that opened during the pandemic
If you felt you missed out on a few things the last 15 months, you’re not alone. Dining inside restaurants was put on pause by many. It’s difficult to get up to speed after spending a year doing take-out only and eating in your sweatpants on the couch. Would you believe I wrote more than […]
BukBuk’s Island Chicken and Lumpia opening in Tacoma
BukBuk’s Island Chicken and Lumpia will go big in June in Tacoma. Simultaneously, owner Domonick Arnett – a longtime Tacoma restaurant industry worker – will open a mobile restaurant and a brick-and-mortar location in Tacoma. But more on those locations in a moment. BukBuk’s merges Pacific Island flavors in portable, handheld eats. Flavors initially will […]
New bakery open in Lakewood. Try the rice doughnuts and cream puffs
I was two bites in when I became completely enamored with the sweet rice doughnut. The doughnut orb came with a crunchy exterior, fried until golden brown. Each bite yielded an elastic chew with satisfying resilience. Licked with sweetness, the red beans inside were a sticky treat. Sweet rice doughnuts don’t get better than this. […]
Brewery with New York style pizza coming soon to downtown Tacoma
There’s a new brewery with New York pizza coming to downtown Tacoma When Camp Colvos Brewing opens its downtown Tacoma location in June, it’ll culminate a few years of planning, seismic upgrades and a lot of pizza dough testing for its New York City style pies. The Vashon Island brewery expansion to Tacoma’s historic brewing […]
Locust Cider opening in Gig Harbor
Locust Cider & Brewing Co. is expanding again in Pierce County – and this time it is across the bridge in Gig Harbor. If all goes as planned, it will open later this summer. It’s a Harbor space that craft beverage lovers will know well. I certainly do. I’ve sipped countless brews and watched liquor […]
Jet City Pizza opening on Tacoma’s Sixth Ave
Coming to Tacoma’s Sixth Avenue neighborhood is Jet City Pizza Co., a small regional pizza chain based in Mount Vernon with six locations from Snohomish to Newcastle. It will open its seventh location at 3602 Sixth Ave, the former home of Garlic Jim’s, which closed in February. If all goes as planned, the grand opening […]
Bar Rosa coming to Tacoma’s Hilltop neighborhood
Coming this summer to the Hilltop neighborhood is a wood-fired pizza restaurant and neighborhood bar at 1206 S. 11th St. Bar Rosa’s owners hope for a summer opening at the space that locals will remember as the longtime home of Thai Garden. That mom-and-pop Thai restaurant closed in 2016 when the owners retired following 30 […]
Buddy’s Chicken & Waffles coming to downtown Tacoma
Red velvet waffles, milk-and-cookies waffles, cornmeal waffles, buttermilk waffles, chocolate chip waffles. And the list goes on for specialty waffles created by Aaron White, who has always used the nickname given to him by his family – “Buddy Brown.” Brown has been expanding his waffles recipes for a good reason. He’s opening Buddy’s Chicken & […]
En Rama’s seating is back in downtown Tacoma. Get the fresh pasta and burger
Seating at downtown Tacoma’s En Rama is back. After a six-month hiatus, the patio reopens Tuesday (April 20, 2021) with Chris Keil’s imaginative cocktails, a plate of fresh pasta or a gooey burger from Chef Josh Press. Behold the sturdy metal awning spanning half the sprawling patio. It’ll help keep away the inevitable rain of […]
Tacoma’s Mission Mountain Meadery makes delicious hopped mead
Steve Taylor discovered something interesting when he jumped down the rabbit hole of mead, the honey-fermented craft beverage that’s seeing a big surge right now. Brewing mead is like brewing beer. But more fun. Taylor has started a slow debut of mead rollouts this year from his production-only Parkland meadery, Mission Mountain Meadery. Wait a […]