Peg and I were returning from an afternoon appointment to our Northend Tacoma home. We were both tired and not really interested in cooking dinner. A few days before, my friend Rick Allen asked where the nearest Ivar’s was. “On South Mildred across from TCC. They are a little pricey, though.” Rick didn’t care he […]
Going to Pierce County’s Restaurant Rally? These owners have advice
Restaurant Rally, a discount program offering diners 30 percent off meals at participating restaurants, is less than a week away and restaurant owners are prepping for a deluge of customers. Pierce County also launched the website today that lists all 200+ of the restaurants participating in the Restaurant Rally. Find that list of 200 restaurants […]
Pierce County Restaurant Rally – Discounts – Relief to Restaurants
Pierce County Restaurant Rally offers discounts to diners and relief to restaurants – Nov. 8-19, 2020. I think Pierce County deserves recognition for their efforts supporting local restaurants and their employees. Pierce County, in partnership with Tacoma-Pierce County Chamber, Washington Hospitality Association and Travel Tacoma – Mount Rainier Tourism and Sports has announced details of […]
Thanksgiving 2020: Restaurants with dine-in, delivery, take-out around Tacoma, Pierce County
Welp. This won’t be the Thanksgiving we want with all the pandemic concerns about group gatherings, but let me help you try and make the most of Thanksgiving 2020 anyway. With many families skipping the big gatherings you’re likely looking for a place where you can go out to eat or safely get take-out because […]
Tillicum News for November
The Tillicum Woodbrook Neighborhood Association (TWNA) in-person meetings continue to await a safe return but, in the meantime, read the November 2020 newsletter, as there is a good deal of important information. Library announcements; board member nominations; town clean up dates; Pierce County Alert signups; and Safe Parking locations for vehicle residents.
Across the Fence: Fruits of Fall
The skies have turned a different hue of blue a while ago. The first leaves started turning this year in August already. Starbucks and Co. have welcomed back customers for their pumpkin spice lattes. But fall, for me, somehow only begins when I see the first pumpkins paraded outside grocery stores. And everybody who knows […]
New seafood boil spot, Captain Crab, is open. Here’s a first look
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 […]