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Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Chow This Week in the Chow Section: Enjoyable Episodes, Our Neighbors to the North, and Ivar

Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 3:14 PM

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Vegetarians, behold! David Schmader has once again sallied forth on your behalf, testing out the various Episodes (the menu is rife with them) at Capitol Hill's In the Bowl. Also: BEHOLD this server there (right). She is named Pear. It. Is. Unbearable.

Bar Exam took a small vacation and reports on a couple of watering holes in Vancouver, B.C. The one I really wanted to visit—The Diamond in Gastown, which is reputedly an actually worthwhile bartending school by day and craft-cocktail mecca by night—was closed. Made do with one of Vancouver's two revolving bars-in-the sky (WHY did they take the lounge out of the Space Needle?! SO LAME) and the new-ish bar at the Four Seasons, Yew. Next time, The Diamond!

And in The Happiest Hour, the lovely Marti Jonjak shares an item of amazing Ivar's lore that you've probably not heard before. Bonus photo of Ivar making pancakes during the Great Seattle Syrup spill after the jump.

Tomorrow: a whole new Chow section featuring an interview with Seattle Top Chef contestant Ashley Merriman of Branzino!

Also, did you see this story, in which a big-ass Ivar's sign was pulled out of Puget Sound? Ivar put it down there for the purpose of advertising in the future, when we would all get around by means of submarines.