IT'S TIME >>>

With the approaching holiday season, restaurants are knee deep in potatoes, pork loins and root vegetables, pumpkin and cinnamon and apples and winter stews. restaurant owners are frantically poring over their paperwork, trying to figure out how to keep the lights on until the first Thanksgiving and Christmas parties go on the books. The rookie chefs complain about the short nights. The veteran chefs know all too well that this is a time for resting, for pacing themselves and conserving energy for the push that will come as soon as the last trick-or-treater knock son the door.

Pacific Grill, with its veteran chefs and smart owner, churns along as if it was voted Best Restaurant in Tacoma. The downtown Tacoma fine-dining restaurant has been announcing new menus left and right, including a new dessert menu, and next week - new fall lunch, dinner and happy hour menus.

Here are a few of its newest creations. ...

Broken' Lasagne: braised lamb shank ragù alla Bolognese with san marzano tomatoes, red wine & ricotta salata

Chicken Breast: sautéed chicken breast with polenta, duck & bacon sausage, roasted mushrooms & red wine sauce

Grilled Salmon~ sweet chili-glazed fresh salmon with bamboo rice & spicy garlic chili green beans

Click here to download Pacific Grill's new menus.

[Pacific Grill, 1502 Pacific Ave., Tacoma, 253.627.3535]