#cafe paradiso

[strathshepard]

Cafe Paradiso, Capitol Hill, Seattle, 1990s via Crescent Down Works

[sweetdreamsjeff]

Gary Heffern: here's a poster where he opened for me in seattle on his first tour. and a short story i wrote after chris cornell died. hope you enjoy.

i am not sponsored by anyone. here is a post i did about chris cornell and a story about jeff along with a poster of the show i did with jeff. feel free to post if you like. it was jeff's first show in seattle. i think his fans would appreciate it. OH MAN... SO MANY MEMORIES. LOVE TO Peter Cornell, and to all his family and friends. and fans. i remember when he first got signed and asked me for some advice i said to him "just remember to be nice to people. especially your fans. and enjoy and appreciate what is coming. don't worry about the naysayer's who will call you a sellout. stay true to your friends, they are the ones who will not judge you". about a year later i was at a show with my old dog butch...i think it was at kitsap county and they let me in with the dog. i was in the crowd, and get a tap on the shoulder and there's a guy standing there asking me if i am who i am and i say "yes"...and then he says "well, who is butch because i have backstage passes for the both of you". he laughed when i pointed at the dog. that's chris for you in a nutshell. so many stories...we worked together at rays boathouse. i gave him his future wife susan's phone number... he sang backups for me countless times, and we were in the band The Center for Disease Control Boys together. OH MAN...the days we would go to a beach and swim and talk about music and he would always probe me with the question "tell me everything you did wrong in the business" and the answers would go on for hours. his refusal to listen to the grateful dead, until one day i showed up at his house with "workingman's dead" and we spent hours playing track by track that album and meat puppets ll. and again, about a year or two later him saying to me "i finally went to see the dead, and i "get" it. oh on, and on...he wanted me to start a band with his brother peter...but i couldn't do it because peter was such a good singer. oh, and there's the time i did a show with jeff buckley and told him he should meet my friend chris cornell because he reminded me of him.... and then running into chris again years later after jeff died, and we talked about him and how close chris had gotten to him... and on... and on... and on... this one hurts.. bad.

[audiojunkyard]

[strathshepard]

Crescent Downworks

[iwtv1976]

Birthday Dinner at the vegetarian restaurant Paradiso. Six course set menu. We had:

salted chocolate oreo, chilli mole, st. tola

kimchi croqueta, beetrot tartare

ginger broth

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carrot escabeche, buffalo labneh, pickled fennel

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broccoli, pepper sauce, potato foam, parsley pesto

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potato gnocchi, asparagus, lemon chilli butter sauce

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aubergine, greens, ricotta, beluga lentils, miso, walnut

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chocolate tart, brown butter ice cream, hazelnut and apple rum empanada, vanilla cream, lemon curd, pinenuts and rhubarb parfait, ginger, meringue and coolea, beetroot relish ; young buck blue, membrillo

[epifurious]

62: Cafe Paradiso’s Eggplant Wraps with Pinenuts, Spinach and Cheese

Tonight’s dinner (eggplant wraps with pinenuts, spinach and cheese from the Cafe Paradiso cookbook) seemed complicated but was actually easy enough to prep on a weeknight. Typing it up however is a bit more than I’m interested in so I’m going to link to a very similar recipe. 

My changes -- I used one large eggplant, used Old Amsterdam gouda instead of cheddar (as this was the suggested cookbook sub for Irish Coolea cheese), one bag of spinach and 4 chopped sundried tomatoes. I made a tomato sauce to accompany, per the cookbook, from crushed tomatoes, capers, garlic and oregano (instead of thyme). 

[jrenslow]

Listen/purchase: The Junkyard Demos by The Junkyard All-Stars

[heathermillermusic]

Cafe Paradso Open Mic Feature on Sept 3rd!

Whoohoo! So excited to be the feature at the Cafe Paradiso Open Mic this week! (Tomorrow!) I've even got a few new things for you to hear! Come play! Sign up @ 7:45, music @ 8, I go on around 9!