Restaurants

Raise your hand if you’re tired of cooking for yourself and your family at home! (Handraise!) Take a look at three options for treating yourself to a gourmet meal from Woodinville chefs this month. Order online, pick up the meal, take it home, re-heat using the chef-provided instructions, and enjoy with local Washington wine. This week through January 17, the ...

This winter has tossed a curve ball to our favorite Woodinville wineries, as they were once again closed for indoor tastings and dining. As the winery owners in this amazing community pivoted and found new ways to sell wine and serve customers, we saw amazing efforts to create safe patios spaces. We were thrilled to visit Chateau Lill and enjoy ...

Don’t want to cook for Christmas this year? Me neither! Let’s take a look at some of our Woodinville restaurant and catering take-home festive meal options. These local businesses need our support this year and we need their delicious cooking! Barking Frog at Woodinville’s nicest hotel, Willows Lodge, offers a Holiday Frog Box to-go. Choose between the Holiday Ham Frog ...

I enjoyed a couple of lunches outdoors at Vivi Pizzeria + Ristorante this week, both on a rainy cozy Monday and on a surprisingly sunny Saturday. I chatted with restaurant manager Tessa and restaurant owner Tanya about their outdoor dining, their wood-fired pizza and other tasty dishes they serve, and about Vivi Pizzeria + Ristorante’s Thanksgiving food offerings. Tanya treated ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today, during this stressful and challenging coronavirus crisis, we got some great news about restaurants here in Washington State (and specifically here in Woodinville). Governor Jay Inslee lifted some restrictions on restaurants at this time, and I am so relieved and delighted to hear this news! Phase 2 restaurants can now seat 6 people per table (previously 5) and now ...

If you’ve been wine tasting all day in the Artisan Hill district in Woodinville, you’re likely to get hungry and need a snack or a meal. I usually end up at The PicNic Table Cafe (especially right now while my kitchen is being remodeled) when I am out wine tasting. The food is Mediterranean themed with lots of Italian influences ...

Everywhere I’ve gone out to eat in Woodinville lately, I’ve been asking the restaurant owners and servers what they’d like our readers to know about the current restaurant situation in our city. Our Washington State governor recently closed the indoor spaces of bars, wineries, breweries and distilleries; and made a new regulation that people from different households can not sit ...