ScorchedPalate
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Was craving some fried chicken, fried okra and greens the other day, so called La Louisiana to check their hours and doggone-it if they aren't closed. The number's disconnected and Citysearch has a "closed" marked across their page.
Oh man!
1) I never got there
2) I have a restaurant.com gift certificate that I bought for them.
Sheesh.
~A
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Would people be interested in an egullet table?
Cam and I would be interested, but 6pm is pretty early for us on a weeknight. (We both work on the eastside.)
~Anita
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I think Matador in Ballard has a great selection of happy hour priced items! And the nachos are HUGE!!!
We visited there last night after a movie at the Majestic Bay. From 4 to 6pm and 10pm to 1am, there's about a dozen $4 Happy Hour food items. Some are a better value (vs the regular menu prices) than others.
The food was just OK, and the service was crappy. OTOH, if you think of it as a bar that just happens to serve food (rather than a restaurant), they're doing pretty well.
~A
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...I thought the drinks at Cascadia were *really* good. The alpine martini that Anita described was what we swilled. I loved 'em. The drink starts out chilly and vodka-y.. then, as the douglas fir sorbet melts, you get this sweetness and gin-y flavor. It's a different drink from beginning to end. Very clever. I also saw some pretty darn cool looking cocktails served at the tables around us... I think one was a mojito style cocktail with a popsicle in it. Too cool.
There wasn't a single drink on the menu that I wouldn't have tried. The mojito float -- which was my second-round choice -- has a scoop of Mojito sorbet in it; it's a different drink with the popsicle (raspberry vodka, soda water, and an orange popsicle, to be precise).
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...the U-District Tibetan hot pot mentioned on the hot pot thread? (sorry, I can't seem to find the thread).
Our previous HotPot discussions were actually part of the Lo Sichuan thread.
Sorry we'll miss out on yet another eG gathering. We'll be in London pestering our newborn niece and eating pig-parts at St John.
~Anita
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We went to Cascadia last night for drinks with friends. They don't offer half-off their regular bar-food menu, but they do have mini-burgers for $1 ($0.50 more for cheese) and cones of calamari for $2, plus deep discounts on well drinks and their signature alpine martini (lemon vodka with douglas fir sorbet).
~A
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I had high hopes for the new Buena Vista on north Lake Union (where The Lakeside used to be) but after an awful lunch there last weekend, I won't be going back.
Can't say as I am terribly surprised. Buena Vista is the new venture from Maritza Texeira, the chef who brought us the disaster-that-was Gitano, in the Madison Valley space that is now Voila!
~A
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The only real drawback to me is that they do this little show-and-tell schtick about the different cuts available that night that I find a little grating.
We took a friend there a few weeks ago for dinner, since they'd sent us a $50 coupon in the mail, so we figured we wouldn't have much to lose. I wish!
The place was a tomb... two other occupied tables full in the place, one of which was a drunk and obnoxious group. And this was a Thursday night! Not a single bottle of wine on the list for under $50, and nothing worth drinking under $75 (mmm, supermarket wine with a 500% markup...)
Steak was fine, sides were exactly as you'd expect, and service -- including the bizarre dog-and-pony show Tighe mentions -- was mechanical in the extreme. I kept thinking there was a teleprompter above my head that the waitron was reading.
The prices, even for a steakhouse, seemd outrageous. I definitely wouldn't return. You can get a much better steak dinner at any number of other local places. It was an icky chain-restaurant experience from beginning to end.
~A
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Alas, we'll be in England from July 1 through 10, so we can't join you for HotPot or Mexican (two of our favorite meals). Sorry we'll miss ya.
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Brouwer’s menu will offer the regions finest seasonal selections from mussels in hop court bullion to mouth watering kaas croquettes.
Anyone know what kaas is? I searched on google and only got a bunch of people named kaas and some dutch sites.
kaas is dutch for cheese. kaaskroket(en) are dutch/flemish cheese fritter(s)... think fried mozzerella but a lot yummier.
~A
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Galeria's on Broadway does a nice Sunday brunch. There's a range of good entrees and it's served with Mexican pastries and fruit. At $7.25, it's a great deal.
We gave this a whirl on Sunday. It is a deal, and the food is decent. Not amazing, mind you, but good enough for $7.25, no question. As always at Galerias, the service was aloof and inattentive, so if you're one of those people who needs constant refills on coffee (Cam) or water (me), you may be disappointed.
Maybe we should start a Mexican breakfast thread.
~A
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BBox sounds great, but I'm a little hesitant to try it. When I was at Monsoon recently, the service was painful. There was only 1 waitress serving the entire restaurant for lunch, 3 cooks were in the kitchen, but the orders came out oh so painfully slow. The entire restaurant was waiting forever to get the lunch, we were all were looking at each other in disbelief of the slow service.
We were all getting mildly upset as well. I hope Eric reads this board because the food did not justify the painful period of waiting. Maybe he did not notice what was happening at Monsoon because he was so busy opening up BBox? His sister was busy telling someone how to unload the vegetables from her car up front. I will not return for a long, long time, and hesitant to try another one of Eric's restaurants.
-hungry_moose
Ew, that's bad. I hope this isn't another instance of "chef torpedoes a venerable Cap Hill favorite while launching his newest venture."
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Penelope's article quotes the owner's email as saying
"It is a sad and painful message when I tell you that the lack of patronage at Bandol will cause suppliers and creditors to force the closure of Cassis Bistro as well."
I'm not a CPA (nor, thankfully, do I play one on TV), but I can't understand why Jef Fike didn't set up the two restuarants as separate corporations, to protect Cassis. Restaurant failures aren't exactly unheard-of events, especially in pricey downtown locales.
I'm also a little confused about the sadness over Bandol's demise... it seemed inevitable given the mixed (at best) reviews I'd heard. Didn't an eG crew try the place on a couple of occasions and find it severely lacking? I seem to recall LaurieA-B specifically calling it a "superdud."
I'm truly sad about Cassis, even more so because I fear its closure was a preventable catastrophe.
~A
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An "Irish bistro" called Maguire's is coming to 15th Ave between Thomas and Harrison. No menu posted yet, but the sign went up this weekend.
More details Nancy Leson's column this week: The place is owned by Mick McHugh, the impresario who brought you the culinary wastelands of TS McHughs and FX McRory's. What a shame.
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Just read a post on "the other site" that claims Cassis will also be closing after June 20th. Anyone know if this is true?
Nancy Leson's column this week insinuated that they're under financial duress. I can't say I'm surprised -- the last few times we've gone, we've been one of a handful of parties there -- but I am very sad.
~A
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Went by Vlaamse Frites tonight and had a small (erp!) with fritesaus. The people and place were gezellig (convivial) and the frites were lekker (yummy). They even had all the all the requisite equipment, inclusing the little gizmo for shaking the frites with the salt. The one saus they didn't have -- unless I missed it, which was totally plausible as their signage leaves a bit to be desired -- was the old fave, peanut... a necessary part of the traditional A'dam frites-mayo-peanut hangover cure.
And yes, it is a total pain in the butt to find. If I hadn't known it was next to Neumo's, I might never have found it, even knowing which intersection it was.
~A
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Or, there are all those places on Aurora...
Cyndy's being a particularly fine example.
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Two new news bits from the weekend:
According to signs in the window, Grady's Grillhouse on 24th/Montlake (next door to Cafe Lago) has been sold to the owners of the Madrona Alehouse & Eatery, and should reopen in 6-8 weeks as the Montlake Alehouse. The old owner apparently was ready to retire. We saw the old pull-tab bins on the street with a big "FREE" sign, so presumably they're going family-friendly -- no shock to those who know the Madrona sibling (aka Romper Room).
An "Irish bistro" called Maguire's is coming to 15th Ave between Thomas and Harrison. No menu posted yet, but the sign went up this weekend.
~Anita
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Tony Bourdain started a thread about frozen sushi-fish in the Food Media & News forum not so long ago.
If memory of this thread serves me right, sushi-fish purveyors have special freezers that bring the fish down to temperature very, very fast, thus eliminating the usual problems associated with frozen proteins. It's apparently done primarily to kill off parasites, but (most) bacteria are also eliminated.
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Whoa.. I hope the prices come down by the weekend.
~A
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Also, Chinoise... on 45th the sushi isn't very good, and I don't remember one way or the other about Queen Anne. Is the Madison restaurant an exception? I don't remember anything about it, which is probably neutral (I don't generally order sushi there. Or go that often.)
I do think the one on Madison is an exception. Jae (the executive chef of the chainlet) is usually in residence, and even when he's not, Ken (his sous chef) holds down the fort. The only bad sushi chef there is the younger woman.
That said, there's nothing there -- not even the potstickers -- that I would recommend off the non-sushi menu. And I also think you don't get anywhere near the quality of sushi at the tables as you do at the bar (a phenomenon I've noticed all over Seattle).
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In Seattle, you really won't find many places without something to offer in that price range (a handful of places are more spendy - mostly the steak-oriented places and "names" such as Tom Douglas's 3 places.)
Actually, Palace Kitchen (a Tom Douglas joint) has many entrees within the $15-$20 range. They also have an amazing selection of small plates that we often combine to make a meal. Etta's also has more than half their entrees priced under $20.
I personally would stay away from the dining room at Brasa; see the 25 for $25 thread for a write-up of our recent visit. The bar is supposed to be better.
Other restuarants that might suit your needs: Cafe Lago for great wood-fired pizza and pasta; and Salumi for lunch (not quiet but worth it.. or take your goodies to go and eat them al fresco). Or, if you're feeling a wee bit adventurous, Lo Sichuan and/or its neighbor, Seven Stars Pepper.
~Anita
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I'm wondering about whether we should try Ototo. I'm not sure about it.
Personally, I wouldn't bother with Ototo. We've eaten there a couple of times, and thought that the prices were high for what you got, quality, freshness, and quantity-wise. The fish isn't any better than at Chiso or Chinoise on Madison, but their pretensions are loftier, and you pay for that.
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We've bought our CRS at Central Market in the past, and were very happy with the price and the quality. We'll probably head to Mutual Fish this year, now that we're closer.
~A
[SEA] Fare Start Guest Chef Nights in Septempter
in Pacific Northwest & Alaska: Dining
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I think we could get there by 6:30. Thanks for setting this up, Laurel.
~A