Update of "Kailis kitchen"

[Seattle98178]

I just found an Seattle Post intelligencer feature on Kaili and her new restaurant in the Greenwood neighborhood of Seattle. I'm soo glad she's back up and running. I never got to visit her old location in Edmonds. I'm SO EXCITED!! Here's the PI article and the info on her new spot. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/food/281496_coffee11.html.

[Fidissimus]

Thanks for that! I've been meaning to get up to check out her new place, sounds like she's more bakery and less food... =( She had an awesome BLT... I'll still force myself to go eat there though...

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Friday, August 11, 2006 – Lisa Stiffler
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Past the picnic tables with brightly colored umbrellas, up the wooden steps of the converted house, we entered the Da Vinci Bakery and Cafe.

The Mona Lisa mischievously smirked at us. There’s no slain Louvre curator sprawled on the floor, fringe Catholic sect with albino hitmen or mysterious message concerned with the love life of Jesus, all of which can be found in the crazily popular book “The Da Vinci Code.”

But the cafe does have a secret.

See those squares of raspberry almond coffee cake dusted with powdered sugar ($2.50)? Or the coils of lemony cinnamon rolls stuffed with plump blueberries ($3.50)? Check out the towering slices of tiramisu layered with mascarpone and capped in butter-cream frosting ($5.95).

Take a bite of the crustless mushroom and mozzarella quiche, so souffle fluffy it nearly melts in your mouth ($3.95).

Maybe you need the assistance of a saucy French symbologist to help you unravel the secret of the earthy eggplant, ham and goat cheese panini ($3.95)?

All right. Since we don’t have the time to be dragged all over France with a duplicitous historian to solve the riddle, the answer to the mystery is: wheat. Or more accurately, its absence.

All of the items in the Da Vinci Bakery and Cafe are gluten-free. But owner Kaili McIntyre doesn’t advertise that – because she acknowledges that most wheatless food “is nasty.” McIntyre would rather have people try her treats and fall in love with them for what they are, and not what they lack. She mostly uses a mix of rice and tapioca flour and sometimes millet and sorghum.

And besides the baked goods, the cafe has a full menu of coffee and espresso drinks made from organic beans from locally owned Vista Clara Coffee and more than a dozen iced teas and lemonades ($2-$3).

McIntyre has built a loyal following, particularly among those who share her wheat allergy. On a sunny afternoon, one devotee arrived with his son and an ice chest. The two loaded up the cooler, snatching up a strawberry tart and sitting down to share a cheesy pineapple and ham pizza before returning to Tacoma.

Da Vinci Bakery and Cafe, 10003 Greenwood Ave N.; 206-782-5735. Hours: 6 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday-Friday; 7 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday; 7 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday.
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Cheers!
Jenn

GF BD: Feb. 2001
Free of wheat, barley, rye, oats, rice, dairy, eggs, almonds, pineapple and brewers yeast.
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