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With the changes in the season comes our new Fall menu!  Wednesday, November 2nd we introduced the best of the Northwest’s ingredients prepared simply and with love by our chef team, led by Executive Chef Brian Clevenger.  To see more of our menu items, make sure to “Like” Serafina on Facebook and follow us on [...]

Over the last 20 years Serafina has gone through many changes, challenges and accomplishments.  On Sunday, May 29th, we took a day to celebrate the last two decades with our community.   We brainstormed for months, planned, and executed the biggest party we’ve ever thrown.  We want to give thanks; to our staff and their constant dedication [...]

Winter has come once again to Serafina and Cicchetti as we celebrate crisp windblown evenings, a bountiful harvest from Fall, and the coming together of friends and family. We have crafted a fine selection of cold weather cocktails for you to enjoy and complement the flavors of the season, some of the new selections include: [...]

A letter from Serafina and Cicchetti owner Susan Kaufman on the challenges and successes of 2010. “We eat for many reasons other than hunger, but there is only one reason we gather at the table to eat. That is to be with one another. As we come to the close of the year, I am [...]

Saint Martin started out as a Roman soldier, grew up in Pavia, Italy and as an adult was baptized and became a monk. He was known as a kind man that led a quiet and simple life. The most well known legend of Saint Martin is that he once cut his cloak in half to [...]

By definition a cocktail is the combination of a spirit, sugar, bitters, and water. At Serafina and Cicchetti, however, we define a cocktail as the harmonious union of performance art and culinary precision, executed at a moment’s notice. When crafting any fine cocktail, our bartenders are focused on creating a unique experience for our guests [...]

Sometimes there are people that you meet and instantly connect with. They radiate so much joy that they can change the energy in a room in a mere second. Meet Seth Sexton; a man with so much passion for life, art, and people that every once in a while, when you need it most, he [...]

Cooking with Class We’ll be part of Cooking with Class again this year, a fundraiser for Providence Heritage House at the Market and Providence ElderPlace, both of which assist low-income, frail elderly. It’s a fun event for Chef Dylan Giordan as he gets to choose a recipe to teach to his “students.” They then eat [...]

Heirloom tomatoes are back for the season!  Time seems to go by so slowly without them.  But what makes them so special?  Besides the obvious, (they are vibrant in color and have the most perfect taste), they are heirlooms. An heirloom vegetable is a cultivar that was commonly grown during earlier periods in human history, but which is not [...]

A  few months ago our wonderful Sous Chef Ryan Swartling packed up his car with cooking equipment and took off on a cross country cooking adventure.  We’re really proud and inspired by him, and think you will be too.  Check out his blog from his cross country culinary adventure. Eat. Drink. Man. Nation.