Go Go Grays Harbor: feature
Holiday Hutch 2011
Clip from the Holiday Hutch Gala website. Here's the link
Seattle Pastry Girl
I just got back from the Chocolate on the Beach Festival at Pacific Beach, WA. My sister, girlfriend and I decided to take a girl's getaway and this was the perfect venue. Good friends, chocolate,wine and the beach-doesn't get much better. The weather cooperated on the drive from Seattle, blue skies, dry roads, and snow covered scenery to enjoy. It was a great week-end of fun and letting our hair down. One of those what happens in Moclips stays in Moclips kind of week ends ! A highlight of the festival was the Wine and Chocolate Pairing on Saturday at the 4th Annual, Chocolate & Wine Festival at the Ocean Crest Resort. They paired wine with a variety of chocolate foods. We tried the pulled pork in a chocolate bbq sauce-yummy; the sugared bacon chocolate truffles-killer; but out hands down favorite was the Red Wine Cupcake with Wine Buttercream created by the resort chef, Andy Bickar. I thought I had died and gone to heaven-it was so light and so many flavors, the chocolate the port, the buttercream -we talked about it all night. Link to blog post =>
"On the crest of fine food and wine" Dec 5, 2010 The Daily World
BY DAVID HAERLE
The Daily World
The Ocean Crest Resort has long been one of the Twin Harbor's top fine-dining destinations, well-known for its romantic dining room, Pacific views and extensive wine list.
In recent years, it's even entertained such notables as Sen. John McCain and his wife, Cindy, and multiple Olympic gold medal speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno.
Now, with a new executive chef and a renewed emphasis on pairing the freshest Northwest foods with regional fine wines, there's an exciting direction at one of the region's best-established restaurants.
Much of that direction is coming from wine program director Stephen Pavletich and executive chef Andrew Bickar, who have teamed to bring that fresh dynamic to a restaurant that opened as the Ocean Crest Dinner House in 1963.
"I feel like -- with Andy cooking in the kitchen -- that the food is meeting the level of the wine program and that we are going to go from the nicest restaurant on the Harbor to the nicest, most-sought-after food and wine program around,"read on -->
The Daily World
The Ocean Crest Resort has long been one of the Twin Harbor's top fine-dining destinations, well-known for its romantic dining room, Pacific views and extensive wine list.
In recent years, it's even entertained such notables as Sen. John McCain and his wife, Cindy, and multiple Olympic gold medal speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno.
Now, with a new executive chef and a renewed emphasis on pairing the freshest Northwest foods with regional fine wines, there's an exciting direction at one of the region's best-established restaurants.
Much of that direction is coming from wine program director Stephen Pavletich and executive chef Andrew Bickar, who have teamed to bring that fresh dynamic to a restaurant that opened as the Ocean Crest Dinner House in 1963.
"I feel like -- with Andy cooking in the kitchen -- that the food is meeting the level of the wine program and that we are going to go from the nicest restaurant on the Harbor to the nicest, most-sought-after food and wine program around,"read on -->