The bad news first: El Bule, at 3rd and Park in Renton is out of business, and the place is for lease. Renton could use a Greek restaurant, just saying. El Bule wasn't open for all that long. It started out as aspiring to do fancyish, gourmet Mexican food. and it was really good.  But not too popular. Then they ditched the gourmet menu, and replaced it with tacos and burritos. They were still good, but there was nothing to distinguish themselves in a town with no shortage of tacos and burritos. Between the Renton Hipster blog, and this one, I've talked about various restaurants since 2006. A lot of those restaurants are now gone. It's nothing I can explain. I've seen people standing in line, so they could spend a lot of money at a terrible restaurant, and I've been in many really, really good restaurants that just needed customers. On that note, the good news is that Brewers East/Amante is having a grand opening tomorrow and Thursday, and they're putting out f

The DK Market in Renton, at 720 Lind Ave SW is an amazing place. Fancy? No. It's a rather dingy, disorganized warehouse. Sure, you can go there simply to buy cheap produce( and the eggplants there today were beautiful and huge), but it's also full of imported goods, a separate Chinese herb store, a separate Indian restaurant, and a separate Russian deli/bakery. The variety of people who shop there is as interesting as the variety of products they carry.  People from everywhere, buying everything. The picture of the food on the plate is from the good and inexpensive Spice King restaurant inside the warehouse space. It's Fish Karahi, saag paneer(spinach/cheese), and Bhindi Masala(okra). Yum! What else did I photograph? Why, garlic hair conditioner, from the United Arab Emirates, and sunflower seeds( I think) from Russia. They've got a lot of Polish chocolate. I resisted buying it this time. They must have ten different kinds of tahini, and a hundred different kinds