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Dining Bucket List: Pintxo

  Happy hour appropriately occurs twice a day at Pintxo, a modern Spanish style tapas restaurant in Seattle's Belltown.  There, diners are able to enjoy inexpensive sangria, wines, and beer accompanied by several delicious small plates during two happy hours.  The first begins at five and ends at seven.  Then break for siesta and come…
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Dining Bucket List: Portello Winecafe

  On a drizzly Monday afternoon, my sister Alex and I walked into the café.  The room was buzzing with conversation and laughter.  Every table was occupied with wine sipping guests beginning to unwind from their work days. We snagged a spot at the bar top and immediately studied the wine list.  While Portello doesn’t…
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Seattle’s Secret Speakeasy

  If you are looking for a sophisticated place to have a finely crafted cocktail, then you will want to venture down to Needle and Thread. The Needle and Thread is a swanky Speakeasy strategically and somewhat secretly located inside Tavern Law in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood.  Gaining entry into Seattle’s secret lounge isn’t easy…
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Portland’s Hottest Happy Hours!

  Summer is the time to be out on the town, and in Portland, there is plenty to enjoy!  Meet your friends at some of Bridgetown’s most spectacular Happy Hours, and then head out to savor long evenings of outdoor concerts, movies, art openings, and performing arts and … another Happy Hour, perhaps?  These Dog…
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Summer Sojourn to NYC!

  I don’t know about you, but there’s just something about summer that kicks my wanderlust into high gear!  I suppose it happens like this every year—at the very moment I’ve resigned to a never ending gloomy winter, the frost finally starts to melt, and the idea of trading in my warm puffy coat for…
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