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A Place at the Table:
Greek Cooking and Culture at MOHAI

March 4, 2015

The Greek immigrants who found their way to Seattle in the last century often launched their piece of the American Dream by opening restaurants. A new MOHAI exhibit celebrates their contributions, both culinary and cultural. READ MORE

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April 10, 2013

NY Times: Restaurant Report: Shanik in Seattle

Encouraged by the flowering of Seattle’s once-industrial South Lake Union neighborhood, the area’s restaurants now reflect a veritable United Nations of world cuisines. One of the latest and most celebrated is Indian, by way of the fertile mind of Meeru Dhalwala, half of the husband-wife team behind Vij’s, the outpost of nontraditional Indian cuisine in Vancouver, British Columbia.

April 5, 2013

South Lake Union: Best Seattle Neighborhoods 2013

Ambition and energy permeate South Lake Union. It feels hopeful, forward thinking, exciting—a place where creative and brilliant people are working, in many cases, to better the world. But amid the bevy of new apartments, bakeries, restaurants, shops, coffeehouses, event spaces and more is still plenty of old Seattle flavor—rustic warehouses and Alaska-bound fishing boats. And isn’t that what the city is about? A place where skyscrapers meet the natural world, where one can (and many do) kayak and bicycle to work?

December 28, 2012

A Place Comfortable With Boeing, Anarchists and ‘Frasier’

Everything connects. The first commercial aircraft made by Boeing, in 1919, hangs from the ceiling. It has no wheels because it regularly landed on Lake Union here after airmail runs to Canada.

December 26, 2012

Shanik tops list of 2012 restaurant openings

There's not much doubt that Shanik was the most hotly anticipated restaurant opening of 2012 in this area.

November 9, 2012

Early '90s bet on urban centers pays off for Seattle

A proposal to bring taller buildings, jobs and housing to South Lake Union is part of a city-wide strategy that dates back nearly 20 years.

November 9, 2012

Saving Seattle's Neighborhood Authenticity Through Better Buildings

Filmmaker and Seattle resident Eric Becker has assembled a brain trust of architects and urban thinkers to opine on the growth of the neighborhood, which seems headed down one of two paths.

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