SEATTLE – Eight new culinary tours are being offered by the Gray Line of Seattle bus company this summer.
Each tour features a visit with a chef from a popular Seattle restaurant. Participating eateries are Crush, Troiani Ristorante Italiano, El Gaucho, Sky City at the Space Needle, Chandlers Crabhouse on Lake Union, Daniel's Broiler at Lake Union, Waterfront Grill and Palisade.
On each tour, the presiding chef will greet participants at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel and accompany them to a market to shop for ingredients. Markets will include the historic Pike Place Market, farmers' markets and the Uwajimaya Asian Marketplace. The group will then return to the chef's restaurant for a cooking demonstration on a specialty dish. Guests get the recipe to take home.
The four-hour tours are $100 a person and begin at 1 p.m. To book, call (800) 426-7532 or visit graylineofseattle.com.
Motor museums
Attention bikers, hogs and Harley fans: A Harley-Davidson Museum is opening July 12 in Milwaukee.
The museum has a collection of 400 bikes, including bikes that belonged to Evel Knievel and Elvis Presley, along with a motorcycle from 1903. That was the year that two young friends from Milwaukee, William S. Harley and Arthur Davidson, first made their product available to the public.
The company celebrates its 105th anniversary this year Aug. 28-31 with special events, including an Aug. 30 Bruce Springsteen concert. (Admission to the concert is only available to anniversary ticket-holders in a package that costs $107.50 per person. Tickets to the anniversary celebration without the concert are $65 and include a two-day festival, admission to the museum and various keepsakes.)
For tickets or more information, go to harley-davidson.com and click on “museum.” Admission is $16 for adults, $12 for seniors and students and $10 for children ages 5-17.
Philadelphia has a new museum featuring cars from famous races and historic tracks around the world. The Simeone Foundation Museum showcases racing cars going all the way back from before World War I, right up to a 21st century NASCAR model.
The museum, at 6825-31 Norwitch Drive, is open Tuesday-Sunday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Admission is $12; children under 8 are free with an adult. Details at simeonefoundation.org.
