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Hsiao-Ching Chou chats with the P-I’s restaurant critic, Rebekah Denn, about some of her favorite restaurants in Seattle and what makes each place special.

Justin Neidermeyer spent a year cooking at a family restaurant in Italy and returned to Seattle with the intention of creating a way of life. Now, he makes delicate pastas by hand in a loft kitchen above a pizza restaurant.

You wouldn’t expect to go to Union restaurant to attend a raucous chili contest, but that’s exactly what happened over the weekend. Hsiao-Ching Chou chats with the winner and the losers — including chef and owner of Union, Ethan Stowell, who came in dead last.