CHEF JOHN HOWIE'S BLOG

  This is a shout-out to all Seattle connoisseurs whose tastebuds are adventurous for the finest food and drink that the great Pacific Northwest has to offer! The Annual Taste Of The Seahawks Event is taking place on November 6, 2018, at the Century Link Field. And it’s going to be a smorgasbord of food…

If you live in eastern Bothell, you already know that going out for breakfast or brunch has never been much of an option here. Well, not until this September that is, because Beardslee Public House has opened for breakfast for the first time, finally giving Bothell residents a wonderful reason to wake up hungry! The menu,…

A mysterious gathering of thousands of crows takes place at the UW/Cascadia Campus in Bothell during fall/winter every year, and it is a stunning sight to see. Just as dusk begins to its cast long shadows over the campus grounds and the sky is stained with the orange light of a fading sun, clouds of…

If you’re a resident of the Greater Seattle area, you cannot live this close to the Canadian border and not know what a Poutine is! To describe it graphically, Poutine is a pile of crisp, french fries smothered with cheese curd and gravy — but before you screw up your nose and mentally fail the dish as…

  Romance is the essence of wine. It’s a soul experience, as many connoisseurs will tell you, and even in this modern, tech-driven world of transient sensory pleasures, a great bottle of wine should to be enjoyed mindfully and at leisure, making the terroir of the occasion as special as the terroir (soil) in which…

Forty percent of food in the United States goes to waste every year — and this happens in the world’s most `prosperous’ country, where a silent population of more than 49 million people struggles to put food on the table and one in six Americans goes hungry every day. This shouldn’t be. “Hunger doesn’t have…

Choosing a suitable wine to go with your meal is a complex affair these days. International foods and wines are intermingling so freely, that the old maxim of “red goes with red meat and white goes with fish” doesn’t work so well anymore. After all, how do you categorize `meat’ when it could be anything…

  Chris Lara has been Wine Director at John Howie Steak (JHS) for three-and-a-half years now. If you’re a regular at this premier Bellevue steakhouse, you probably know Chris Lara as the guy who’s always encouraging you to try a big, bold Barolo with your Wagyu instead of the usual cabernets and cab blends. Or…

Calling all Cornhole enthusiasts in Seattle! Hook a hole at Beardslee Public House’s first Annual Kick Hunger Challenge Cornhole Tournament in Bothell on Sunday, July 22, when 48 teams will compete in a friendly game of Baggo — with winner’s prizes, corn dogs and John Howie Restaurant’s swag bags for all participants. What better way…

It isn’t a sports museum. But when you enter John Howie’s SPORT Restaurant & Bar, located a few hundred yards from the Seattle Space Needle, it sure feels like one for most American sports fans. Besides a gourmet food & beverage menu that lives up to John Howie’s reputation as a leading restauranteur in the…