Eating Seattle

Where I have eaten and what I have consumed during the past 24 hours in Seattle:

Black Bottle -- braised artichoke heart, smoked chicken and sundried tomatoes on flatbread, bb's antipasti misti (fried olives, prosciutto-wrapped dates, eggplant-wrapped mozzarella), saffron-risotto cakes, one glass of 2004 Waterbrook Sauvignon Blanc, and one glass of 2004 Eola Hills Pinot Noir;

Macrina Bakery -- lemon-lavender coffee cake and one glass of orange juice;

Pike Place Fish -- sample of smoked salmon;

Beecher's Handmade Cheese -- half-cup of macaroni and cheese;

The Tasting Room/Wines of Washington -- 1-oz. pour of 2004 Latitude 46 Degrees dry gewurztraminer "Celilo Vineyard"; 1-oz. pour of 2005 Harlequin Viognier "Clifton Vineyard"; and 1-oz. pour of 2003 Camaraderie Cabernet Franc;

Matt's in the Market -- one cup of seafood gumbo; salmon with green olive and fennel tapenade over potatoes; half of BBQ pork sandwich;

Salumi -- cured meat plate (six slices each of hot sopressata, finocchiona, mole, salami, and dario, and two slices of cotto (they were out of culatello)) with provolone, bread, and olives; and one can of Diet Coke

Licorous -- one New Orleans Buck cocktail ("[a]n old school concoction of rum, ginger ale, orange juice, and John’s ‘B’ bitters") (Licorous ingeniously pairs cocktails with small bites of food. So, you might see a cantaloupe-based cocktail with a small piece of prosciutto, as melon and cured ham is a classic combo.)

Lark -- prosciutto slices, organic baby carrots with Kurtwood Farms honey, sauteed Oxbow Farm cucumbers with butter and dill, wild striped bass tartare with lemon cucumbers and tomato coulis; marbled salmon with spot prawns in a lobster broth (it tasted like fried chicken); grilled octopus with heirloom melons, prosciutto salt (see a theme?) and tarragon; bollito misto of Williamson Farm beef (beef cheeks) with tortellini and baby turnips; two glasses of 2004 Berger Grüner Veltliner; Black Mission fig tarte tatin with grappa caramel and chevre sorbet; and one glass of late-harvest roussanne dessert wine