PORT TOWNSEND — On your mark. Get set. Eat!
The Spring Taste of Port Townsend returns for a 13th year Thursday at 10 eateries throughout the city.
The establishments will be open from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. for about 200 people pacing along sidewalks to take in an assortment of edible delights.
Tickets are available at Quimper Sound, 901 Water St., and the Port Townsend Safeway store.
Adult tickets at $25 and children 10 and younger eat for $12.
From seafood to bread delicacies, the fall menu offers something for every palate.
Restaurants can be visited in any order ticket holders desire.
If starting in uptown, Sweet Laurette and Cyndee’s Cafe and Patisserie at 1029 Lawrence St. will offer an Italian affair with polenta, pesto and roast pepper stars, finished with a dessert of chocolate-dipped macaroons.
Around the corner, the Pane d’Amore bakery, 617 Tyler St., will have a sampling of its foccacia, fig anise and galette brettone.
Downtown delights
Moving downtown to Point Hudson at the eastern tip of Water Street, Otter Crossing Cafe, 130 Hudson St., will serve fresh crab salad crostini with lavender lemonade and a specialty dessert item of decadent chocolate bombard with whipped cream and raspberry puree.
Next door, The Shanghai, 265 Hudson St., will have Chinese menu items of chow mie fou, egg rolls and pot stickers.
Before leaving Point Hudson on the walk downtown, The Landfall, 412 Water St., will serve up fish tacos.
After a short walk into the heart of downtown, Khu Larb Thai, 225 Adams St., will offer deep fried marinated tofu served with a homemade peanut sauce with steamed brown rice with broccoli and garlic sauce.
A block over, Lehani’s Deli and Coffee, 221 Taylor St., will have light affair of soups, quiches and chocolate.
Behind the deli, The Upstage, 923 Washington St., will have gourmet entries of duck breast with cherry demiglace, whipped eggplant, spinach and rice with pine nuts and fresh herbs, and bay scallops with sweet chili cream sauce.
Route continues
Fins Coast Cuisine, 1019 Water St., is a short jaunt west down Water Street inside Flagship Landing. The restaurant will be serving baby crab cakes and ceviche.
The final restaurant on the tour, Ichikawa Japanese Cuisine, formerly Osamu Ocean Grill, 1208 Water St., will offer three entrees. Its Port Townsend maki roll has raw salmon and albacore tuna with cucumber, avocado and tobikko caviar.
Also on the menu is pork cooked with soy sauce, sake mirin and ginger, and edamame — soybean pods.
As with each Taste of Port Townsend event, diners who visit all 10 restaurants can enter to win an overnight stay at Manresa Castle, gift certificates to local restaurants and Main Street town dollars.
More information on the event is available online at www.ptguide.com/mainstreet.
