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Sue Kidd is the Lifestyle Editor at The News Tribune and the ringleader for the Food and Home&Garden sections. She has worked as a food journalist at Northwest newspapers since 1993, most recently as a food writer, editor and restaurant reviewer in King County before joining The News Tribune in 2004. Her food obsessions at the moment are honey, cheese and oysters.
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The folks behind Primo Grill open Crown Bar on Saturday in the former Gary’s Steak Out on Sixth Avenue in Tacoma.
Crown Bar is currently hosting a three-night, invite-only scholarship fund-raiser for culinary students at Clover Park Technical College in Lakewood.
Starting Saturday, Crown Bar patrons can contribute to the scholarship too. Proceeds from sales of McGavick wines – made in the South Sound, in Grapeview – will fund the scholarship.
Here’s what chef-owner Charlie McManus says of Crown Bar’s menu:
“We are calling the appetizer part of the menu "World Street Food" with currywurst, mushroom quesadillas, and chicken tikka, spicy beef, Cajun shrimp and veggie kebabs with various sides.
“We will have Gerry Stokesberry's buttermilk fried chicken, Thundering Hooves range-fed curger, crisp fried trout on goat cheese olive campfire potatoes.
“We'll have scallops with polenta and cilantro aioli and grilled lamb top round with chickpea has and mint raita.
“We are still working on our steak choices; we'll have two, spice rubbed with house demi, the contenders being skirt, flat iron, rib eye, bone in rib chop and porterhouse.”
Crown Bar: 2705 Sixth Ave, Tacoma; 253-272-4177. Opens Saturday. Hours: 5 p.m.-midnight Sundays and Tuesdays-Thursdays; 5 p.m.-1 a.m. Fridays-Saturdays. Closed Mondays.
