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Olympic Sculpture Park Farmers Market
Today | 3:30-7:30pm
The Seattle Farmers Market Association will host more than 30 of Washington’s top farmers, fishers, ranchers, food artisans, prepared food vendors, and artists at the Olympic Sculpture Park Farmer Market. Located on the grounds of the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Park, the market continues every Thursday through September 9.
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La Dolce Vita
Today | 5-7pm
Enjoy a nationwide ice cream social benefitting Dress for Success. Vintage Park Hotel, Hotel Monaco, and Alexis Hotel are participating in Kimpton’s nationwide Ice Cream Social evening and will serve unique gelato and ice creams in each of their hotel living room lobbies. Cost: $3 per scoop at each hotel; visit one, two or all three hotels, and pay as you go. Cash only. 100% of proceeds benefit Dress for Success.
Sweet Stop 1: Vintage Park Hotel, serving Italian Honey Gelato from Tulio Chef Walter Pisano
1100 Fifth Avenue (corner of Spring St and 5th Ave).
Sweet Stop 2: Hotel Monaco, serving Roasted Banana Blackstrap Rum Ice Cream from Sazerac Chef Jason McClure.
1101 4th Avenue (corner of Spring St and 4th Ave)
Sweet Stop 3: Alexis Hotel serving, Buttermilk Ice Cream from Library Bistro/Bookstore Bar Chef Tiffany Layco.
1007 First Avenue, Seattle (corner of Spring St and 1st Ave)
Gourmet Game Night
Tonight | 5:30-7pm
Seattle-based food writer and cookbook author Cynthia Nims discusses her book, Gourmet Game Night: Bite-Sized, Mess-Free Eating for Board-Game Parties, Bridge Clubs, Poker Nights, Book Groups, and More. Intended to be an author happy hour, Nims will share ideas on how to revamp old fashioned game night and will discuss her more than 80 game-friendly recipes.
Price: Free | RSVP to debra.seier@thewoodmark.com
The Woodmark Hotel (1200 Carillon Point | Kirkland)
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Bite of Seattle
Friday – Sunday | 11am-9pm
Fifty restaurants, thirty food product booths, five live music stages, a cooking demonstration stage, comedy club, multiple beer and wine gardens/tastings, hand-crafted artisan booths, commercial products, Family Fun Zone, and more. This is the ultimate Seattle foodie event.
Seattle Center
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Woodinville Winemaker’s / Brew Master Triathlon
Wednesday July 21 | 6pm
The Winemaker’s Triathlon participants are teams formed exclusively by the Woodinville wineries. The course includes a running, bicycling, and final padding stage (any non-motorized water craft) upstream on the Sammamish River (behind Redhook Ale Brewery). The final paddling stage will be done by the winemaker or brew master from each respective competing team. The goal of this event is to raise awareness about mitochondrial disease, raise money to support the efforts of the Mitochondrial Research Guild of Seattle Children’s Hospital and have a lot of fun while doing it.
Price: $125
Redhook Ale Brewery (14300 Northeast 145th St | Woodinville)
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In Theaters:
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice | Rotten Tomatoes Review
Inception | Rotten Tomatoes Review
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