Posted in Food + Eating, Planet Earth, Sustainability on Aug 31st, 2010
We want to apologize for any confusion regarding Painted Hills – they are a great purveyor of all-natural beef. In our last blog post and newsletter, we discussed the detriments of corn-finishing. In no way did we intend to insinuate that Painted Hills beef is unsafe – they consistently deliver great product. Our issue with [...]
Posted in Food + Eating, Sandwich Shops, Seasonal, Sustainability on Aug 30th, 2010
We are experiencing first hand a case of Demand leading Supply. There are simply not enough cows in the Pacific Northwest, raised the way we want them to be raised, to meet our flank steak volumes, which were increased by the addition our new store on Capitol Hill. It is our first real growing pain [...]
Posted in Planet Earth, Sandwich Shops, Sustainability, The 206 on Aug 5th, 2010
Okay, we may be exaggerating a little on this one. Our summer seasonal menu features the best local ingredients the state of Washington can grow, but eating our delicious sandwiches won’t completely offset the pollution emitted by our beloved Blue Angels, hydroplanes and pirates. Beyond bringing lots of Homegrown sustainable sandwiches to your Seafair party, [...]
Posted in Food + Eating, Sandwich Shops, Sustainability, The 206 on Jul 26th, 2010
Capitol Hill was the heart of the city this weekend, packing the streets as we’ve never seen them packed before. From a full-on Second Line blowing strong outside Ranch Bravo (some of our favorite tacos in town) on Friday night to a packed weekend at Melrose Market, it was great to see the population reveling [...]
Posted in Planet Earth, Sustainability on Jul 19th, 2010
Signs proclaiming two of the many manifesto’s of Horning’s Hideout, a music venue in the middle of the Oregon woods and home to this weekend’s hippied-out Northwest String Summit.
Posted in Planet Earth, Sustainability, The 206 on Jun 22nd, 2010
Every now and then King County does something rad. The King County Native Plant Holding Facility is accepting donations from the gardens of citizens. If you’re planning on clearing some land or pulling shrubs and trees to replant, don’t just hack ‘em up and yard waste them, pot them for donation to the County’s salmon [...]
Posted in Food + Eating, Planet Earth, Sustainability, The 206 on May 31st, 2010
The Seattle Time’s Lynda Mapes reported this weekend that the world famous Pike Place Fish Market is going sustainable, following local seafood leaders like West Seattle’s Mashiko Japanese Restaurant. The Market stand’s owner, John Yokoyama, is taking Monk Fish, Chilean Sea Bass and wild steelhead, from the Olympic Peninsula, off the shelves. The local steelhead [...]
Posted in Planet Earth, Sustainability on May 27th, 2010
Excerpts from the New York Times New Estimates on Oil Flow “Using two methods — one based on the amount of oil on the surface and the other on video of the oil emanating at the source — a federal team created a more precise estimate of the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. [...]
Posted in Food + Eating, Sandwich Shops, Seasonal, Sustainability, The 206 on May 26th, 2010
Over the last year, we have tried to make use of our Fremont dining room for after hours soirées. Whether it’s close friends celebrating their birthdays or board dinners for publicly traded companies, we have so enjoyed the experience of transforming the sandwich shop into something so completely different. Chef Rob Milliron brings his fine [...]
Posted in Planet Earth, Sustainability on May 24th, 2010
It has taken us too long to talk about the current oil spill, gushing from a blow out on BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico. The 450-ton Blowout Preventer or BOP, a giant valve meant to seal off oil wells in case of emergency, failed and with no backup in place, the [...]