Five years ago, I used to have to send diners to King County when they’d ask me about a seafood boil/crawfish restaurant. Today, Pierce County not only has choices, it has multiple choices for seafood boil in three Pierce County cities. Captain Crab opened in Lakewood on September 23, which brings our peel-and-eat seafood spots […]
La Waffletz is opening Unique Bakery in downtown Tacoma
In 2015, husband-wife baking team Roger Martinho and Mirtha Sanchez opened their tiny, tiny bakery inside Tacoma’s Freighthouse Square food court. La Waffletz and Macaron Station could barely fit two pastry chefs in its kitchen. Yet, somehow in that tiny space, Martinho and Sanchez produced 12+ daily macaron choices and liege dessert waffles plated with […]
Frozen TV Dinners Then and Now
When I was a child in the 1950s, my mom cooked dinner when she came home. Both mom and dad worked. I was a latchkey kid. My dad didn’t cook, but loved to BBQ. That was his realm. He took an old kitchen stove and set it in concrete and boulders in our backyard for […]
Saigon House now open in Tacoma, and is date-night ready
I love living in a town with such little pretense, especially when it comes to our food. Our economy relies on strip malls, so much so that strip malls have become ever present in our daily lives. It’s where one completes the most mundane of tasks – dry cleaning, dog grooming, cell phone upgrading …. […]
Lakewood First Lions looking for new members
The Lakewood First Lions Club, which began on March 17, 1954, is looking for new members. The club’s motto is “We Serve” and we mean it. Your joining our club allows us to: Expand our work in protecting the gifts of sight and hearing by testing students in the Clover Park School District when schools are […]
Larry Crowne Movie Review – What America Could Be
I like films that at their heart have a theme of “Do the right thing.” I joined Showtime so I could stream The Comey Rule starring Jeff Daniels and Brendan Gleeson. Showtime had a special offer one month free to try their selections out. The Comey Rule was about Donald Trump and the Russian interference […]
M. Frank Lyons, II, M.D. retires to The Lyons Lifestyle
Last Sunday I consumed a 4-liter jug of GoLYTELY, 8 ounces at a time, every ten minutes, until I had finished it, in preparation for a long overdue colonoscopy and upper endoscopy early on Monday morning in Tacoma. The procedures had been scheduled/canceled/rescheduled and postponed several times due to COVID-19 in Seattle at Virginia Mason. […]
Letter: Just Passing Through
They had met on the train. He was a handsome soldier on reassignment just passing through. “May I sit here?” he had asked. And so it began. Fifty-eight wonderful years of marriage eventually followed that first encounter. He has been gone some years now, and sometimes she will go to a railway station – it […]
Tacoma’s Old Town Wine Skins is open and kid friendly
The first thing you’ll notice about Old Town Wine Skins is how light and bright the space has become. That’s the work of co-owner Cosette Pfaff, who opened the wine bar and eatery on Monday in Tacoma’s Old Town neighborhood. The space formerly housed Montamara Kitchen. The footprint shifted a bit with the addition of […]