Mobile restaurants offer downtrodden businesspeople a welcome escape from the office kitchen, with its long microwave lines and fridge doors decorated with stern memos and macaroni-and-glitter portraits of the boss. Take a refreshing lunch break with today’s Groupon: for $7, you get $15 worth of inventive homemade fare from Here and There.
Based out of Edmonds, the freewheeling foodies of Here and There bestow elegant and nomadic nourishment, operating their orange food truck at a rotating lineup of Seattle-area locations. Boasting an ever-changing menu of global flavors and seasonal ingredients, chef and owner Julie Malcolm brings her cornucopia of culinary couture to downtown street corners, business parks, and boat christenings. Recent taste offerings have included spicy pulled pork ($9.95), spinach chicken salad ($8.95), and savory blue marlin tacos, flour tortillas loaded with chipotle crema, shredded cabbage, and pico de gallo with a flanking of pinto-bean soup or fries ($9.95). Mobile masticators can also enjoy lighter fare such as fresh fruit smoothies ($3.95) and sweet banana-walnut chocolate-chip cookies ($1.75 each) while not having to worry about traditional restaurant concerns like paying for valet parking or leaving your date behind in coat check.
Reviews
The Seattle Times profiled Here and There. Nine Yelpers give Here and There a four-star average rating.
- Yum. Yum Yum Yum. – Deborah S., Yelp, 4/8/10
- If you're a meat lover then this is for you. – Michael T., Yelp, 2/12/11
Groupon Says
The Groupon Guide to: Spooky Stories
Whether you are attending a campout, a sleepover, or a fear-building retreat, having at least one good spooky story in your repertoire is essential. Here is a story that is guaranteed to raise hairs:
Ellindrea was gasping, breathless, at the top of the stairs. The door to the attic was locked. There was no escaping the skeleton crawling slowly toward her. It inched closer, the gnarled bones grotesquely scraping the dusty wooden steps of the abandoned antique mansion. This is it, she thought. All the decisions I made have led me here, to this. The third-grade horse accident. Yelling at Swarthington College. Leaving Brett because of his face problem. Spending my weekends provoking skeletons. Now I'm going to die.
"That's riiiiiiiiiiiight," said the skeleton, "I can reeeead your thoooughts…Ellindrea van Stamblepuff, you have wasted your liiiiiife."
His bony visage was now inches from her face, shrieking, "The reeeeal monster is complacency. Today, yesterday, and three weeeeeeeks ago, all days you'll never get baaaaaaack. There are beautiful hidden beaches. Tiny Spanish towns where the postman sings to the villagers. A secret, better Eiffel Tower in Iiiiiiiiiiindia. And you while away your days, content in your job answering phones at the junkyaaaaard. Ellindrea! This is a wake-up call! You have wasted your liiiiife!"
"I'm sorry!" yelled Ellindrea. "I'll do better! I'll seize the day. Live to the fullest and never take a day for granted!"
"So be it," howled the skeleton. "Sayonaaaaaaaaaara."
Just then, Ellindrea woke up, safe in her bed. It had all been a dream! Or had it? She noticed how beautiful the sunrise was and decided it didn’t matter. A new life was waiting. And then, just as she was about to jump out of bed and grab life by the horns, her house turned into a wolfman with ghosts for hands and killed her and then everyone else, even all the presidents and kings.
The end?
–James Joyce
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