This past weekend, I stopped by The Picnic Table Cafe in Woodinville to chat with owner Chef Dani about his new PicNic Table Cafe Pantry and Thanksgiving To-Go options. The PicNic Table Cafe Pantry is comprised of to-go food items you can run in and grab (well, after you pay for them, of course!) to take home and help make ...

It’s been a minute since we wrote a fun Follow Friday post, and what more perfect time to jump back into it, than Thanksgiving week? These 5 Seattle-area food and wine bloggers have some serious follow-worthy accounts that we know you will love as much as we do so we wanted to give thanks to them and share with you. ...

There’s an exciting new wine being released today at Gard Vintners at The Junction in Woodinville.. A sparkling wine.. from Washington State! Yahoo! Gard Vintners’ 2018 Skal sparkling wine is now available at their tasting rooms in Woodinville, Walla Walla, and Ellensburg. Skal is made from 60% Pinot Noir and 40% Chardonnay, using the Methode Champenoise method. Do we have ...

We stopped by Matthews Winery recently without a reservation, just to check things out and see what’s going on with one of our favorite local wineries. We admired the tent setup and heaters, and peeked inside at the festive holiday decorations. Since we didn’t have a reservation, we didn’t ask to do a tasting, and we just checked out the ...

On Monday, my friend Shona from Wine Diva Lifestyle had the day off, and we decided to take the opportunity to visit, catch up, gossip, and support a local Woodinville restaurant after the weekend’s depressing news about restaurants in our state being shut down for indoor dining. We knew Vivi Pizzeria has a heated outdoor patio and a tent (plus ...

I’m not really supposed to tell you this, but it’s quite common for wine bloggers to go home after a long busy exhausting day of wine tasting, wine photography and wine blogging, and turn to something a little more.. substantial.. for their evening drink of choice. For me, that’s Whiskey or Bourbon, preferably found in an ice cold Manhattan cocktail. ...

Our Woodinville and Washington wineries need our support yet again – Our governor has required wineries to close to indoor tastings and only offer outdoor tastings for the next month. (You can still walk inside wineries to buy bottles of wine to take home). Outdoor tastings are fun, and nearly every winery has put up tents, but not everyone wants ...

It’s autumn, and the rain is back. I still want to socialize with my friends and drink wine together, but our state has restricted in-person gatherings to outdoors only. I can’t have my friend Dawn come over and hang out inside my house with me any more. So, luckily I have an outdoor fire pit we can light a bonfire ...

We have been working hard at finding safe ways to enjoy Woodinville wine at home safely. With today’s announcement from Governor Jay Inslee, we know that dining inside restaurants is not an option nor are indoor gatherings that combine more than one household for the next four weeks. Right now as we do our part to reduce transmission of Covid-19, ...

Halloween finally falls on a Saturday night, but this year instead of going out to bars or hosting a big bash, I’ll be staying home for a quiet evening by the fireplace with my boyfriend and our dogs (and plenty of wine!) Our home in a quiet suburban neighborhood near Woodinville never gets trick-or-treaters, so we don’t have to figure ...