Restaurants offering culinary tours

Sun., June 22, 2008

Associated Press The Spokesman-Review

Eight new culinary tours are being offered by the Gray Line of Seattle bus company this summer.

Each tour features a visit with a chef from a popular Seattle restaurant. Participating eateries are Crush, Troiani Ristorante Italiano, El Gaucho, Sky City at the Space Needle, Chandlers Crabhouse on Lake Union, Daniel’s Broiler at Lake Union, Waterfront Grill and Palisade.

On each tour, the presiding chef will greet participants at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel and accompany them to a market to shop for the day’s ingredients. Markets will include the historic Pike Place Market, farmers’ markets and the Uwajimaya Asian Marketplace.

The group will then return to the chef’s restaurant for a cooking demonstration of a specialty dish. Guests get the recipe to take home.

Chef Jason Wilson of Crush, named best new chef of 2006 by Food & Wine Magazine, kicks off the program Saturday.

The four-hour tours are $100 a person and begin at 1 p.m. To book, call (800) 426-7532 or visit www.graylineofseattle.com.

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