Send comments, gossip or complaints to: tntdiner@thenewstribune.com.
Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/tntdiner
Got something to say? Here's the place to comment on and discuss what's on your plate and on your mind. Don't wait for us to post something to respond to.
Want to find the best deals around town? Here's the place to find out how to best spend your dining dollars.
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.
Craig Sailor is the Arts&Entertainment editor at The News Tribune. He grew up on a garlic farm near Gilroy, Calif. and now farms oysters in his spare time at Willapa Bay. He’s traveled the world from Kyoto/Kuala Lumpur/Hong Kong to Zanzibar in search of great food.
- All
- All-Purpose Stuff (169)
- Bacon! (3)
- Beverages (134)
- Breakfast (7)
- Changes and sales (77)
- Chefs (27)
- Cool Things (80)
- Customers and kids (18)
- Dining trends (44)
- Downtown Tacoma restaurants (54)
- Drop-In Dining reports (53)
- Ewww! (24)
- Extra! Extra! (24)
- Farmers Market Fresh (6)
- Farming and growing (49)
- First Bite (44)
- From the Gut (27)
- Happy Hours (4)
- Help Wanted (43)
- Homework (14)
- I love cheese (4)
- Industry stuff (61)
- Live Blogging (50)
- Media (12)
- Multimedia Specials (6)
- Parking (6)
- Pubs (34)
- Reading Room (30)
- Restaurant closings (45)
- Restaurant openings (157)
- Reviewing (50)
- Second Bite (1)
- Send It Back (corrections) (4)
- Service (34)
- Simmering Question (28)
- Steals, Deals and Discounts (9)
- Store grazing (2)
- Swag Heap (3)
- Ten in One restaurant series (3)
- The Surveys Say ... (4)
- The You Plate Special (16)
- Tipping (9)
| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| << < | > >> | |||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
| 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 |
| 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 |
| 29 | 30 | |||||
- August 2009 (16)
- July 2009 (16)
- June 2009 (13)
- May 2009 (22)
- April 2009 (22)
- March 2009 (17)
- February 2009 (18)
- January 2009 (26)
- December 2008 (21)
- November 2008 (14)
- October 2008 (27)
- September 2008 (27)
- More...
Kelli Estrella will bring her award-winning cheeses to a new farmers market in Tacoma.
Kelli Estrella’s cheese are sought after by chefs from Seattle to New York. Tacoma shoppers will soon have a chance to buy the Montesano cheesemaker’s products at a new farmers market.
Estrella is among 24 farmers who’ve committed to selling their cheese, vegetables, fruit, meat and flowers at Tacoma's newest farmers market, which will debut July 15 at corner of Sixth Avenue and Pine Street.
More info from the press release after the jump.
The 6th Ave Market, Tuesdays starting July 15, 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. on the corner of Sixth Avenue and Pine Street.
Estrella Family Creamery will be joined by other well-known local farms including Terry’s Berries, L’Arche Farm & Garden, Evensong, Cottage Gardens, The Bee Lady, Leslee Gardens, Giltner’s Greenhouse, Daisy Chain, Hayton Farms and Full Circle Farm.
Seafood will come from Brady’s Oysters and Rolf’s Choice, whose owner Rolf Torgerson is currently fishing in Alaska to get product for the new market. Meats and poultry will come from Stokesberry Sustainable Farm, Cheryl the Pig Lady, and Toboton Creek Farm.
The market will celebrate a diversity of produce and flowers from Asian immigrant farms including Mee Garden, Vue Meng Farm and Xee Yang Garden.
From east of the mountains, the market will include several fruit and vegetable producers: Martin Family Farm from Cashmere, Alvarez Farms from Mabton, Bautista Farms from Sunnyside, and Collins Family Exotic Fruits of Selah.The new market is being organized by the Federation of Tacoma Farmers Markets, a partnership between Tacoma’s Broadway Farmers Market and Proctor Farmers Market. The 6th Ave Business District Association and the City of Tacoma are supporting the effort.
