James Beard Foundation – The 2018 James Beard Award Semifinalists
This morning the James Beard Foundation released the list of chefs and other food and drink pros in contention for the most prestigious culinary award in all the land. And apparently Seattle is a hotbed of young talent; we fielded three semifinalists in the Rising...
Eater – America’s 38 Essential Restaurants
What are the restaurants that altogether define dining in America? For nearly four years, I’ve been chasing this consuming riddle around the country as Eater’s national critic. There will never be an immutable answer, and that’s what makes eating across the...
Gayot – Top 40 Restaurants in the U.S. 2016
Chef Blaine Wetzel, previously at Copenhagen’s Noma, brings Scandinavian elegance and refined, precise technique to a remote outpost on Lummi Island, located two hours north of Seattle. His vision of “food telling a story of the land” breaks new...
Forbes – How Travel Fuels This Noma Alum’s Award-Winning Restaurant
Blaine Wetzel had worked in food since he was 14, but had a culinary awakening when he moved to Europe at 22. He learned about new ingredients. He adopted new cooking techniques. And he got a job at Noma, the foraging-focused Danish restaurant that would go on to be...