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Chef's Kitchen

Each month we bring a guest chef into our Chef's Kitchen column to give us tips that elevate their cooking (and hopefully ours). They also provide a recipe that showcases their tips. Our guest chef this month is Chef/Owner John Howie of Seastar Restaurant & Raw Bar. With two locations of Seastar, people in Seattle (closing 1/3/15) and Bellevue can enjoy fresh and unique seafood and experience delicious raw bar items in beautiful surroundings. Chef Howie also owns Sport near the Seattle Center where fans of all sports can enjoy casual food while watching either one enormous TV screen, one of the 15 large screens in the dining room or the personal TV in each booth. He also owns John Howie Steak where guests savor USDA prime 28- to 42-day custom aged beef, American Wagyu and Japanese Kobe. In addition, there is wonderful seafood. Everything is made in-house, including bread, desserts and even potato chips.

Chef/Owner John Howie of Seastar Restaurant & Raw Bar was born in Chicago and moved to the Seattle area in the late 1960s. He was the opening chef at Palisade in 1992, staying for ten years. John has gained notoriety for bringing unique, specialty foods to the Seattle table. He originated the use of cedar planks for restaurant service and launched a culinary website "plankcooking.com." John also authored a cookbook on the subject titled "The Cedar Plank." On March 11, 2002, John opened his own restaurant in Bellevue - Seastar Restaurant and Raw Bar, then Sport at the Seattle Center and then another Seastar in the South Lake Union area of Seattle. He opened John Howie Steak in The Shops at the Bravern in Bellevue in September 2009. He is incredibly generous, giving his time, services and money to numerous causes.

 

Keep it fresh, by Chef John Howie

When you have pesto that you need to save, using a small amount of oil on top of the pesto will keep it fresher for an extra day, as no oxygen can get to it through the oil. It  won't oxidize and turn brown so quickly.

Seastar Restaurant & Raw Bar
205 108th Ave NE
Bellevue, WA 98004
425-456-0010

www.seastarrestaurant.com

Sport Restaurant                                  John Howie Steak
140 4th Ave N, Ste 130                          11111 NE 8th St, Ste 125
Seattle, WA 98109                                 Bellevue, WA 98004
206-404-7767                                        425-440-0880

www.sportrestaurant.com                        www.johnhowiesteak.com


Click here to see Chef John Howie's recipe

April 2011
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