Recommended Places to Shop | Eric Rivera's Cooking Blog

Seafood City (Tukwila, WA)

January 24, 2011 by ericriveracooks

This is the only way you will find me shopping at a mall. Seafood City in Tukwila has been open for a few months now and I can’t get enough of it. It’s a super clean grocery store inside of Southcenter Mall with a great selection of ingredients focusing on Philippine Cuisine. You’ll find tons of seafood (of course), meat, and other great things like a chicaron wall! I found a sauce called banana sauce that I’ve never tried before […]

Categories: Recommended Places to Shop • Tags: Blog, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, recipe, Seafood City, Southcenter, Tukwila

Farm Boat (Puget Sound, WA)

November 29, 2010 by ericriveracooks

About a month ago I checked out Farm Boat (forgot I was writing this post then I had to run out the door….one month later, here we are!). Farm Boat is a farmer’s market on a boat that travels up and down the Puget Sound (rhyming) and drops off lovely produce and culinary delights to the new South Lake Union Park. At the time of checking it out I was on my way to work and didn’t have time to […]

Categories: Recommended Places to Shop, Restaurants • Tags: Cooking Blog, Farm Boat, Farmers Market, Food, Seattle

Leave a comment

Big John’s PFI

September 27, 2010 by ericriveracooks

I was talking with chef Gabriel Claycamp about veal bones and he brought up Big John’s PFI. It’s a store in Seattle that sells a ton of bulk items and focuses on Mediterranean cuisine. When he told me about it I had to go…..when I went there I was surprised to find the an amazing assortment of exciting and fair priced food products. Their bulk items are less expensive than most/all bulk item sellers in Seattle. I was so […]

Categories: Recommended Places to Shop, Restaurants • Tags: Big John's PFI, Bulk, Chorizo, Cooking Blog, Food, Ink, Squid

Leave a comment

West Seattle Produce

April 30, 2010 by ericriveracooks

Hmmmm, I work on Sundays. I love going to the farmers market but by the time I get there it’s closed. Mindy goes sometimes for me but it’s just not the same. I love being able to walk around and pick my own items that I am going to cook. Solution? WEST SEATTLE PRODUCE!!! The people at Corner Produce at Pike Place Market have opened a new produce stand in West Seattle. When did it open? Today! My sister gave […]

Categories: Recommended Places to Shop, Uncategorized • Tags: Cooking, Food, Produce, Seattle, West Seattle, West Seattle Produce

Savour (Seattle, WA)

March 5, 2010 by ericriveracooks

I was invited to a wine tasting (more on that later) by the great, awesome, wonderful, and amazing Keren Brown from Foodportunity (Yes, I am wiping the brown off my nose now She read my little post about wine and decided to put me in front of Seattle’s elite wine crew in order to change my opinion on wine. I’ll get to the wine information here in a bit, but first, let me distract you a little bit with […]

Categories: Recommended Places to Shop • Tags: Food, recipe, Savour Seattle, Seattle, Specialty Food Store

Leave a comment

Chocolopolis: Seattle, WA

September 28, 2009 by ericriveracooks

Chocolopolis, in Queen Anne, has been open for a little over year. It’s a chocolate boutique style store that Mindy and I stopped at after dinner at the 5 Spot’s Puerto Rican pig roast (more on that in a minute). What kind of chocolate do they have? Pretty much everything and anything you can think of. There are lots of great flavor combinations and each little variation of chocolate has its own design…..it’s amazing! Check out this video of their […]

Categories: Recommended Places to Shop • Tags: Chocolate, Chocolopolis, Cooking Blog, Food, Food Blog, recipe, Seattle

Leave a comment

Knives

August 4, 2009 by ericriveracooks

(Click each picture to make it larger) Last night in class we were given a presentation from Bob Tate from Seattleknifesharpening.com. I was told he was coming in to our class a week before so last week I went out and snapped a few pictures of knives so that way when he came in I would have a post ready. Luckily, my school is right in the heart of downtown Seattle so I have quick access to just about anything […]

Categories: Becoming A Chef: Blogging about Culinary School, Random Rants, Recommended Places to Shop • Tags: Chef Knife, Cooking, Cooking Blog, Food Blog, Knife, Knife Advice

Taylor Shellfish in Shelton, WA

July 31, 2009 by ericriveracooks

Thinking about doing a dungeness crab boil? Where do you start first? Well the first place you should start is by finding a great supplier of dungeness crab. Yes, you can go to Pike Place Market, QFC, or any other grocery store or even Farmers Market (Taylor Shellfish is at a few of them) or you could go straight to the source! Why do I make things hard on myself? I don’t know! I talked to my friend Jimmie and […]

Categories: Random Rants, Recommended Places to Shop • Tags: Crab, Dungeness Crab, Oysters, Shelton, Taylor Shellfish

Anthony’s Fish Bar

July 31, 2009 by ericriveracooks

(Click each picture to make it larger) I’ll always have a special place in my stomach for walk up style food places. Seattle has a nice mix of these types of places but I always have to stop when it involves seafood. A few months ago I was walking around Federal Way and I happened to stop by the early opening of Salty’s Fish Bar (click here). Yesterday class let out a little early and I had a few hours […]

Categories: Random Rants, Recommended Places to Shop • Tags: Anthony's Fish Bar, Restaurant, Seafood, Seattle

Leave a comment

Arrivedeceri, olio d’oliva. Ciao, olio d’uva!!!

April 17, 2009 by ericriveracooks

(Click each picture to make it larger) If you search through this blog then you’ll notice that I use olive oil in about every recipe on here. Well, it’s time for a change! Hello, grape seed oil! I’ve been working at Sound Bites for a couple weeks now and it has lead me in the right direction for my pursuit of using the best ingredients to take my culinary skills to higher levels. One thing that I have overlooked along […]

Categories: Random Rants, Recommended Places to Shop • Tags: Après Vin, Grape Seed Oil, Olive Oil

Eric Rivera's Cooking Blog

Food, because I just want an excuse to cook.

Category Archives: Recommended Places to Shop

Seafood City (Tukwila, WA)

Farm Boat (Puget Sound, WA)

Big John’s PFI

West Seattle Produce

Savour (Seattle, WA)

Chocolopolis: Seattle, WA

Knives

Taylor Shellfish in Shelton, WA

Anthony’s Fish Bar

Arrivedeceri, olio d’oliva. Ciao, olio d’uva!!!

Follow “Eric Rivera's Cooking Blog”