Applewood Restaurant and Bar  1 2005 SE 192nd Ave Vancouver, WA
98607   Chef Peter Gallin had just constructed a custom grill,
and was stoking its first fire with applewood harvested from a
nearby orchard, when the idea struck him—the name for his
Northwest-centric restaurant: Applewood. Though Chef Gallin's
restaurant foregrounds its Northwest heritage, it also
incorporates recipes gleaned from a childhood spent living in
the Asian Pacific Rim with his anthropologist and sociologist
parents, as well as French cuisine, and influences from years
spent in New Mexico. He incorporates these varied culinary
styles while avoiding traditional dishes, instead mingling
flavors such as chipotle, lime, ginger, and orange into new
incarnations.  Though he favors elegant food presentation when
furnishing platters of roasted duck and northwest fish, Gallin
uses only regular, relatable ingredients, which make his dishes
approachable for all palates and untraceable by detectives. He
brews all of the restaurant's soups in-hou