I was wondering if you could run an article on the Korean restaurants around South Tacoma Way. … There are a lot of restaurants, but we don’t know which ones to go to, or even what to order other than Kalbi beef and kimchee. We went to one that seemed to be more of a bar than a restaurant, and another that served some kind of broth and the servers were really surprised to see “gringos” or whatever the equivalent term is in Korean.

I took this reader’s e-mail as a reminder: There’s a sizeable Korean population in the

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I know why I read restaurant reviews: To dine vicariously. This one had me jealously hooting.

Frank Bruni’s review of Le Cirque, a New York restaurant of luxury and privilege that “connotes a culinary pecking order by which the rich and famous get the best tables and others get to breathe the same air,” may be my only taste of the landmark restaurant this year.

Here’s a bite, from Wednesday’s New York Times:

I also experienced Le Cirque’s famously split personality, half dismissive and half pampering, depending on who you are. On

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An angry restaurateur (and News Tribune advertiser) called one of this newspaper’s advertising representatives today, informing her that he would no longer advertise in the News Tribune.

The reason? I didn’t mention his restaurant in today’s round-up of waterfront dining.

The reason I didn’t mention his restaurant is the same reason I didn’t mention many other waterfront restaurants: today’s round-up was a totally subjective cruise around the South Sound; the review said as much. I left out a bunch of places on or near the water.

First of all, the angry restaurateur called the

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The last surviving inventor of the Philly cheesesteak has died. Harry Olivieri and his brother Pat were credited with inventing the sandwich of grilled sliced meat and grilled onions at their south Philadelphia hot dog stand in 1933. Cheez Wiz and pizza sauce came along later.

The Associated Press reports Harry Olivieri died of heart failure Thursday in Atlantic City. Pat Olivieri died in 1970.

If you and your arteries are of a mind to honor Harry and Pat, here are some fine Philly cheesesteaks in the South Sound. Some I’ve written about previously.

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The hot and hoppy, merry and malty days are upon us: Christmas in July, the time of year when brewpubs roll out stashed-away kegs of last year’s holiday beers, which, thanks to their higher alcohol content, improve with age.

Tacoma’s Engine House No. 9 held its Christmas-dinner-with-all-the-trimmings last week and features its E9 Winter Warmer, Redhook Winterhook, Deschutes Jubelale and Pyramid Snowcap on tap, plus Maritime Jolly Roger on cask, while supplies last.

The Swiss Pub blew through two kegs of Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale last week. Until taps go dry, The Swiss is pouring Pyramid Snowcap,

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The Harmon Brewery and Restaurant will hold a memorial fund-raiser on Saturday in honor of Jason Outler, a server who was shot and killed July 4 in Tacoma’s North End.

Outler, 31, was a single father who cared for his 3

Tacoma is 2,785.25 miles from Philadelphia (according to the menu at DelBrocco’s Pizza, Steak & Hogie’s, a brand-new Philly-style eatery in Tacoma).

But you only have to go as far as Sixth Avenue (at Proctor) for a Philly cheesesteak. (Or to Philly Joe’s on South Tacoma Way or Curbside Diner in Olympia.)

DelBrocco’s opened last week at 3908 6th Ave., suite B. (Telephone: 253-756-PHILLY).

I stopped this week in for a cheesesteak (with Cheez-Wiz) on an authentic Philly-baked Amorosa roll. Chopped and grilled meat was tender and savory. There was a whopping amount of

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If a poultry purchase urges you to "Crack the Case on CBS" or promotes a "Hard-Boiled Drama," it’s only because the television network has caught avian marketing fever.

Joining with an Indiana company that uses lasers to imprint eggshells, CBS is planning an "egg-vertising" (those are CBS copywriters’ words, I swear) campaign on 35 million supermarket eggs this fall.

"It’s a great way to reach people in an unexpected form," a CBS

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