YOU ARE INVITED to the third annual Play Fore Kids Golf Tournament, this Monday, June 13, 2011, at the beautiful and challenging 18-hole championship golf course at the Bear Creek Country Club in Woodinville, Washington. Considered one of the five best golf courses in the Pacific Northwest, the course was designed by Jack Frei.
The event raises money for Childrens Cancer Careline, a fund that helps local families battling childhood cancer.
Please join us for our “Rising Stars of Washington” food and wine event at Daniel’s Broiler in Bellevue. We have a special treat: Dining with us and guiding us through the virtues of their fine wines will be:
Come and experience what all the “buzz” is about. Chef Mike Dremann has created a multi-course food and wine pairing tour de force to make this wine dinner event one you will never forget.
Photo of Kontos Cellars Vinyards
To get you ready for Cinco de Mayo, we have the Taste of Tequila dinner coming up on May 4th, 2011 at the Lake Union Daniel's Broiler location. Chef Mike Hillyer is working on a great menu to go along with some exciting tequilas.
KETEL ONE Vodka is the choice for our signature martini due to its smooth taste. Compared to other vodkas we've tried, we find it less harsh, and it mixes well. Maybe that's why we empty about 1800 bottles a year. We use so much that we were paid a visit at Daniel’s Lake Union by Carolus Nolet, the son of the chairman of Ketel One, when he was in Seattle Friday, March 11, 2011.
While Carolus Nolet was Daniel's Broiler - Lake Union, he took our staff through a short comparison taste test and told us the family history of the Ketel One products. He took the time to autograph some bottles and get his picture taken.YOU ARE INVITED to the third annual Play Fore Kids Golf Tournament, Monday, June 13, 2011, at the beautiful and challenging 18-hole championship golf course at the Bear Creek Country Club in Woodinville, Washington. Considered one of the five best golf courses in the Pacific Northwest, the course was designed by Jack Frei.The event raises money for Childrens Cancer Careline, a fund that helps local families battling childhood cancer.
Our newest cocktails have arrived at the Daniel's Broiler lounge — somewhat of an in-between-winter-and-spring collection of vintage cocktails and seasonal cocktails made with our signature syrups. Quite a few of the new cocktails are vodka- or gin-based, married with citrus and herbs, and they'll make you wish summer was here.
Now, if ginger is your fancy, you must try the Ginger Smash. It includes tequila, our housemade falernum, Creole Shrubb, ginger syrup and lime juice. What's Creole Shrubb? Created in Martinique from rum, this orange liqueur is soft and smooth and mixes well with any drink that calls for an orange liqueur.
JUST CAN'T WAIT for the weather to warm up, the backyard BBQ and the summer libations? Well, let's start a little early with our Styles of Rum dinner on March 29th at Daniel's Broiler - Lake Union.
Also from Martinique will be the venerable Rhum Clement a Rhum Vieux Agricole. This mahogany-hued rhum is soft and has semi-sweet aromas with tastes of chocolate, figs and amaretto. The Creole Shrubb will also be part of our dinner experience, a orange liqueur made from rhum.
The biggest hit of the night was the 2007 Saggi Red Table wine, paired with a delicious free range Chicken Pancetta with pearl onions and tomatoes in a red wine sauce. So good! Chef Mike Dremman has outdone himself at every wine event, and this was no exception.
If you haven't experienced one of our wine dinners, you really owe it to yourself. It's an evening to remember. Our next one features Mark Ryan, Stevens and Gorman wineries on April 13th, starting at 6 PM. If you'd like more information or want to make a reservation, email vintagelounge@schwartzbros.com or call 425-990-6310 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 425-990-6310 end_of_the_skype_highlighting.
The wine selection on our state of the art Cruvinet dispensing system changes occasionally. So here's the latest update: We're now featuring "Eight Greats of Three States." We wanted to show off our wine region to guests visiting from all over the world, as well as pleasing people who hail from right here. All three states in this region (WA, OR and CA) are producing world class wines that are commanding recognition and accolades from all over the globe.
YOU'RE INVITED to our World of Gin Dinner, February 24th at Daniel's Broiler - Lake Union. Taste and learn about the five styles of gin: Genever, London Dry, Old Tom, Plymouth and International. "International," as a category, includes gins that don't fall into the four classic styles. Local distillers are in that category.
Most of the Gin you'll taste will be made into cocktails and paired with different courses. The dessert course, for example, will be three ice creams made with gin cocktails from Olympic Mountain. The event will be fun and educational (see the World of Gin menu).
February 24, 2011 at Daniel's Broiler - Lake Union, we invite you to join us for a four course dinner paired with gin cocktails. Learn about the five different styles of gin and their origins. The four courses will be:
The Vintage Lounge at Daniel's Broiler - Bellevue is a plush setting, with great views, enhanced with comfortable, contemporary furniture, and high definition televisions (click on the picture to see a larger image). The Vintage Lounge is the showplace for some of the world's top-rated wine varietals from our 900-bottle wine list (which has been honored with the Award of Excellence by Wine Spectator for the last 5 years).
At the heart of Vintage Lounge is our state-of-the-art, custom-built Cruvinet. This system has been recognized around the world as the best preservation and dispensing system for wine ever made. It allows us the rare opportunity to serve a selection of wines by the glass not found anywhere in the greater Puget Sound area. The 30 "Cruvinet Selections" are all wines that have been rated 90 points or higher by Wine Spectator, Robert Parker and Wine Enthusiast. These wines are appropriately served in Reidel stemware.
The Vintage Lounge was once our Havana Dan's Cigar Bar, and it still has that classy, warm feeling, with leather couches and a fireplace. It is a quieter, more intimate atmosphere. And when you relax in the Vintage Lounge, you are not limited to wine or cognac. It is an extension of our bar, so you can order anything — including a steak dinner if you like.
I had the chance today to meet Orlin Sorensen and his partner, Brett Carlile and tour their distillery, Woodinville Whiskey Co. (shown here with mentor David Pickerell). This is an impressive facility located in Woodinville, producing one of the tastiest vodkas and White Dog Whiskeys that have hit my lips in a long time.
Opening a few months ago, this state-of-the-art distillery has a 265-gallon pot still with a pear-shaped whiskey helmet and 31-foot column stills. They use organic Washington State grains in both of the spirits they produce. Both the owners keep close eye on the product as it goes through the distillation and comes off the still, at over 150 proof.
Their Peabody Jones Vodka is 100% organic and has a great flavor you can drink by itself, or used as the main ingredient in a cocktail. This premium vodka has a delightfully smooth taste, with a creamy mouth feel and hints of butterscotch, vanilla and almond on the nose. It seems that apple and orange would bring out the best in a cocktail without overriding the flavors of the vodka.
The White Dog Whiskey, (a non-aged whiskey) is made on a true whiskey mash bill that incorporates corn as the base. Bottled at 80 proof this creates a lot of room for mixability in a drink. Sometime in 2011 Woodinville Whiskey Co. will release a barrel-aged whiskey, which is resting in the rafters of the facility right now.
Brad Miller, the Spirits Director for Daniel's Broiler, had the opportunity to host a special evening at Daniel's Broiler - Lake Union. The event was the first stop on the "Luxury Drop" promotional tour of the U.S.
