Question: what does cheesecake, passion fruit cake and lemon-dill chicken have in common? Answer: It’s all prepared in the same spot: Creative Kitchen Works LLC.
Joe’s Sports & Outdoor has opened its doors at the The Landing in north Renton.
There’s something that dentists like to say.
Two weeks ago, I told you about my tour of Merrill Gardens at Renton Centre. I told you that I had met some delightful folks — each one with a story, each with a life well-lived. I promised to tell you about Maury. Maurice Marler to be exact.
Gourmet food, concierge services, espresso café, e-mail accounts and rooftop terraces. Not exactly the retirement homes my grandparents feared being “sent” to in their older years. Last week, I had a three-hour tour of Merrill Gardens at Renton Centre. My guide was Linda Asaif, their community relations director. Within minutes, I knew that this was some special place.
Real-estate staging was once a foreign term to Sue Lunsford.
“You need to do what?” That was Lunsford’s reply to the Realtor friend who asked her to stage a home.
When Mary Clymer returned to Renton from Los Angeles, one of her first stops was City Hall to search for an I (heart/love) Renton button, similar to the one that her grandfather, Earl Clymer, used to wear daily – even beyond when he was Renton’s mayor. City staff told her that they hadn’t made the buttons for almost 20 years. Mary sought to rectify that situation and now stocks her own smaller buttons in her store – happy delusions – on Third and Main.
Westfield Southcenter, a major retail complex in Tukwila, will mark the completion of its $240 million expansion project Friday.
When I returned home from the Return to Renton car show on Sunday, I saw a story on the news about citizens in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, rallying around the town in the wake of a natural disaster. The truth is, almost every day seems like that in Renton. I am not someone who “does” car shows. In fact, I probably could take them or leave them. But, I can’t imagine when I have had a better day in Renton than last Sunday’s car show (and with a cracked rib that is really saying something)! Close to 4,500 people were walking the downtown streets of Renton! It doesn’t get any better than that! The spirit of Renton was alive and well everywhere I looked.
Huyen Martin’s teas are so fresh, they make noses recoil.
“People always go, ‘Ooh, that’s strong!” says Martin. Her family’s company is called Pacific Mist Tea. “They’re not used to it. That’s always the reaction. People don’t know when they put their nose in.”
Noses descend often into the small sample tins of teas on Martin’s table at the Renton Farmers Market.
Before you even taste anything on the menu at Renton’s newest restaurant, Blossom Asian Bistro, you are struck by how fresh and “pretty” everything sounds on the menu. There’s the Blossom roll, with papaya, sun-dried tomato and Japanese pesto wrapped in soy paper. Or, the bamboo princess roll — a combination of shrimp tempura, cucumber, avocado and daikon, also wrapped in soy paper. The selection of salads and sushimi is also equally fresh and tempting—noodle salads, fresh oysters, seaweed salad and marinated salmon served Japanese style.
Yoga in an air-conditioned gym is hard enough for someone whose life goal is touching her toes. But yoga in a 105-to-110-degree room? I was expecting the worst.
For 85 years, First Savings Bank of Renton has stayed close to its roots – the people of Renton who need a loan to buy a home.
That is the traditional role of the “thrifts,” the savings and loans where people pool their money in their savings accounts and then it’s loaned out to others.
For the second year in a row, Valley Medical Center has been chosen by Seattle Business Monthly Magazine as one of the best places to work in the 2008 Best Places to Work Issue.
A recent ballet rehearsal at Spotlight Dance Center begins with grand plies, stretch plies and just plain plies, all which consist of bent knees and out-turned feet. Then it’s to the bar.
This is the warm-up for the upper ballet class at Spotlight Dance Center in downtown Renton. Each of the four girls, ages 14 through 19, has been dancing for 10 or more years.
Bob Bridge Toyota in Renton has won Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.’s President’s Award for outstanding sales and service – now for the sixth time.
The Renton Chamber of Commerce presented its 2008 Business Excellence Awards on June 4, which included naming chamber board member Roxanne Hanson as its volunteer of the year.
Many Renton residents were born at McLendon Hardware. Not now as the store that sells hammers and nails, but when it was Renton Hospital.
The Renton Chamber of Commerce will honor 18 outstanding Renton-area businesses and name the winners of the Business Excellence Awards at an awards ceremony on Thursday, June 4.
The largest Harley-Davidson store in the Northwest, measured by size, will open in south Renton next January, a key part of a destination retail area for those who like to feel the wind in their face.
