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I think it would be a crime not to spread the good word about Chef Gordon Naccarato's takoyaki, one of the Japanese street foods on Pacific Grill's Noodle Bar menu. These balls are chunks of heaven and they're currently my favorite dish in the South Sound area. Given the fact
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Otoro (oh-toh-roh), which is sometimes labeled o-toro, is the fattiest portion of the tuna, found on the very underside of the fish. This cut is fatty almost to the point of falling apart and can literally melt in your mouth; it is hands-down the best sashimi. It is the most
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Argentina is known for its steak, and the best part, the filet, is called lomo. It makes sense that Tacoma's little slice of Argentina, Asado, excels at steaks. Their lomo with polenta and espalda asado (flat iron steak) with purple Peruvian potatoes are both to die for. However, I'm choosing
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Given the opportunity, I could eat Enoteca wine bar's cheese plate for breakfast, lunch and dinner. And then I could do it all again. Why? Because Bill Bonnie, Enoteca's owner, offers the largest selection of artisan cheeses from around the world. Formaggio di Fossa from Italy, Le Moelleux du Revard
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Chef Charlie McManus and partner Jacqueline Plattner raised the bar for Tacoma restaurants when they opened the critically acclaimed Mediterranean-ish Primo Grill in October 1999. And after more than 10 years of dining at Primo, even though there are three or four nightly specials every time I visit that would
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For good, solid nachos, you don't go the "Mexican" kitchen route - and you don't go to a sports bar or pub, where "nachos" means any pile of chips covered in effluvious crap and topped with cheese that remains fluid at room temperature. No, you mosey on over to the
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Any restaurant that combines half a pound of beef, apple wood-smoked bacon and a Macrina Bakery brioche bun deserves to have its burgers taken very seriously. At Maxwell's Speakeasy, this dream burger exists. The Walker Burger, named after the building the restaurant anchors, is grilled then topped with white cheddar,
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Babblin' Babs Bistro, the tiny Proctor District restaurant, dishes out huge flavors the likes of which Tacoma has never seen. Chef William and his better half, Shannon, have just added new gourmet creations to their breakfast menu, including Babs Bodacious Biscuits. Arriving in a bowl, Babs Bodacious Biscuits takes the
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There is an evil lurking all around us, and you don't even know it. I certainly didn't know because I try my very best to surround myself with the warm light of goodness, grace and whole-wheat flour. This evil wears a clever disguise and blends into society without ever being
Nightlife It List
OMYGOD! COLLEGE! WOOOOO! Did you hear the new Bigwheel Steakhouse is starting a College "Nite" on Tuesdays? That totally, like, rocks! It's, like, the best place to go party and drink $2 beers and $2 wells and get SOOO wasted, and omigod. And calling it $2 All Vinyl Study Hall
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Tacoma's best are represented in The Greater Tacoma Community Foundation's Foundation of Art Award, 2008-2010 show at Kittredge Gallery. Twenty-five artists over the past three years had their art judged by a panel in hopes of grabbing the $7,500 prize. Chris Sharp and Jeremy Mangan won in 2008 and
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A year ago Gregory Fricker was damn near on his knees dealing with life. If you told him last September that not only would the former Army soldier become an artist, but this Wednesday's 100th Monkey Party tile artist, he would have laughed in your face. He's laughing for a different
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There's heavy metal, and there's heavy metal. And then there's heavy metal that's meant to be written with a capital H and M and a jagged Halloween font with scary skulls as the a's and a devil hanging off the y - all circled 666 times with some sort of
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(CONTEST CLOSED) For this week's Weekly Volcano Morning Quickie e-newsletter contest we're headed back to Paddy Coyne's Irish Pub - voted Best Place To Forever Imoortalize Your Alcoholism in our Best of Tacoma 2010 issue – giving away a whoppin' $50 gift certificate to Paddy
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The Radio8Ball Show is a musical talk/game show based on the concept of synchronicity. The format is simple and unique: Guests and audience members ask questions to The Pop Oracle, and the answers are divined by spinning a wheel or picking a card that determines which song the musical guest
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In the summer, sitting on my patio drinking a cocktail is the adult equivalent of hanging out at the Oakbrook pool as a kid. The first sip always gives me the same delicious feeling I had when lifeguard Jack Connelly (yup, that one) screamed, "Adult swim is over! Kids can
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Thomas Alva Edison, who invented the phonograph in 1878, was a genius, but even he couldn't have foreseen the rise of his invention as a musical instrument. It's a shame. Imagine how his face would have lit up like a lightbulb (get it?) after witnessing a DJ elate a crowd
Food Matters
Thursday, June 10 Corvus Cellars wine tasting with food pairings, beginning at 5:30 p.m. and runs all night, Brix 25, 7707 Pioneer Way, Gig Harbor, 253.858.6626. Charles Smith Wines tasting, 5:30-8 p.m., complimentary, Pour at Four, 3814 N. 26th St., Tacoma, 253.761.8015. Wine tasting, noon to 6 p.m., complimentary, Walter Dacon Winery, 50
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Skansie Brothers Park Gig Harbor. Billy Farmer. All Ages. 12 pm. NC. Sax Restaurant and Lounge Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Olivia De La Cruz. The guitarist, singer/songwriter performs during dinner. All Ages. 7-9 pm. Free. Hannah's Bar & Grille Olympia - Downtown. Open Mic. 9 pm. NC. BLUES Charlie's Sports Bar and Grill Olympia
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Avant-garde musicians Ben Paris, Phil Harty, Lucas Webster and Nicholas Hartzell will mess with time, space and dimension via ethereal soundscapes and minimalist tones while Kris Crews' abstract video commands the wall space. "I plan to screen a mixed bag. Several of the featured artists are providing video to accompany their
