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Enjoy the Feast for Fifteen on Sundays from 6 to 10 PM at Neighborhood Grills, some of Seattle’s favorite neighborhood restaurants, located in Greenlake, Southlake Union, Eastlake, and Lake Forest Park. Enjoy a 3 course dinner for just $15. It’s a feast that keeps you and your wallet FULL! Wine Enthusiast (WE) magazine’s Top 100 Best Buys of 2011 is their antidote to rising wine prices. All of these wines carry a suggested retail prices of $15 or less, which makes it a list of brands, worldwide regions, and varieties you can count on to keep you–and your wallet–happy in 2012. Over the past 12 months, WE tasting panelists reviewed more than 16,000 wines, granting the coveted Best Buy designation to only 1,224 (7.6%). This list is whittled down to the Top 100, based on the score, price, availability, … and … buzz. There is something for every style, variety and origin. The list for 2011 is one of the finest and most eclectic collections of Best Buys and WE’s continuing effort to find the wine world’s best values. Here are the nine wines from Washington that made the list For the sixth year in a row, a list of the Top 100 Washington/Oregon wines recommended by Paul Gregutt, has been published by the The Seattle Times. Gregutt looks through that past year’s tasting notes and selects is top 100, including special occasion and best buys. Here at Greater Seattle On The Cheap, we’ve culled the list to wines priced at $30 or less and arranged them by $$ and type of wine. For the full article, read Seattle Times wine adviser lists his Top 100. Reds Whites If you would like to give back this holiday season to causes you care about, consider gifts that support the local food economy and farms. How about a copy of Cascade Harvest Coalition’s (CHC) cookbook, Fresh! Seasonal Recipes with local ingredients. At $20, this beautifully illustrated and smartly arranged book features seasonal and local recipes, courtesy of local farmers, chefs and food writers including Tom Douglas, Jeff Miller, and Seth Caswell. Local artist Lida Enche filled the 80-page layout with original woodcuts and illustrations of stunning beauty. Honey bees, salmon and ladybugs swim across the floral backdrop. All proceeds will benefit CHC, a non-profit organization dedicated to “re-localizing” the food system in Washington State. Order online. Shipping and handling included! Consider a Community Support Agriculture (CSA) subscription that can provide someone you love with the benefits of farm fresh food throughout the year. Or give as a gift to your family and help with New Year’s resolutions for healthier eating! A CSA is a great way to support local farmers and the local economy. Download a directory of Puget Sound CSA’s (1.2MB PDF). Since 1987, Barbecuewood.com has offered barbecue woods and related products and accessories. They frequenlty offer items for sale, some with free shipping. Consider one of these unique gifts for the barbecue cook on your list, each currently offered with FREE GROUND SHIPPING (Lower 48 States Only).
Join Unexpected Productions funniest Christmas Show in Seattle! Get away from your family – or bring them along! First performed in 1985, A(n Improvised) Christmas Carol brings Charles Dickens’s Christmas classic to the stage with a twist! What if Scrooge owned a pet store? What if the Ghost of Christmas Past was a Film Noir detective? What if Tiny Tim wasn’t so tiny? The audience gives suggestions up front, and UP’s improvisers use these suggestions to tell an all new tale of how Christmas can (or can’t!) change Ebeneezer Scrooge’s life! This is a great show for families, shoppers, tourists, and audience members of all ages! Tickets are just $10.00 – $15.00, available at brownpapertickets.com. Intiman Playhouse (View Venue), 201 Mercer St., Seattle, WA 98109 (Google map). At posting time, OpenTable lists many restaurants with availability for Thanksgiving Day and making reservations online is easy. Reservations are free and can be made around the clock. Restaurants featuring Thanksgiving Dinner under $25
And a couple more restaurants featuring Thanksgiving dinner under $30:
Click here for a list of available restaurants in the Seattle area for Thanksgiving Day Fabric Stash is a unique fabric-recycle community targeted at those devoted to working with fabrics, fibers and textiles. The Fabric Stash is designed to bring together lovers of * fabric * fiber * textile * crafts * and the stashes they have collected for the ultimate Purge Party. Whether you attend as a seller or buyer, the Purge Party Fabric Consignment Sale is the ultimate blow-out fabric recycle event—and an experience like no other. Events are held in the Spring and Fall and are open to the general public. As a seller, be sure reagister early for the next Fabric Stash to guarantee there is space available for your items. Plan to attend the next Fabric Stash Event at Historic Freighthouse Square – Rainier Room (next to the Tacoma Dome/Transit Center) 2501 East D Street, Tacoma, WA 98421 (Google map).
Have fabric to sell? Register to participate in the next Purge Party Fabric Consignment Sale –the ultimate blow-out fabric recycle event. Items can include, but are not limited to: fabric, fabric scraps, fiber, textiles, yarns, thread, notions, sewing machines, beads, scrapbooking and beading supplies, etc.; no finished products (i.e., purses, hats, etc.,) are allowed. Items must be in good to excellent condition. Fabrics must be free of odors (e.g., smoke), dust, etc. This is an experience like no other with earnings up to 70% of your sales. Events are held in the Spring and Fall at designated locations open to the general public. Register and pay the nominal admission fee early to make sure there is space available for your items. All fees are non-refundable. For more details or to register, visit http://www.ourfabricstash.com/howitworks.shtml Need fabric? Plan to attend the next Fabric Stash Event, offered Spring and Fall in various locations and open to the general public. This is a marketplace for raw materials/tools used to complete your craft. Items you will find may include, but are not limited to: fabric, fabric scraps, fiber, textiles, yarns, thread, notions, sewing machines, beads, scrapbooking and beading supplies, etc. There is a small admission charge. A portion of the sales is used for marketing & operational cost. Fremont Oktoberfest is Seattle’s Fall Tradition in the “Center of the Universe” Fremont, Washington. Voted by USA Today and Orbitz.com as one of the top places to toast Oktoberfest, this three-day festival features a Tasting Garden, live music, Kids Area, a 5K Run, and plenty of other activities. The festival runs September 23-25, 2011. Save $5 when you purchase tickets online or at one of the advance ticket outlets in Seattle, Bellevue, and Federal Way. Tickets
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