MsRamsey

Yeah, I was planning to get there at noon or a bit before. KR

Is this open now? I've been peeking through the window occasionally for months. Yep. I walked by on Wednesday night and there were diners. I couldn't see what the food looked like. The interior looks a little austere.

I don't agree, if anyone cares. I don't know how strong the general correlation between those factors and obesity is, but the innumerable individual exceptions point to genetic factors. Metabolism, for example. Agreed. This is exactly why I pointed out those articles in Science. People are overgeneralizing. The reasons are multifactorial.

I happen to have the 2/7/03 issue of Science in front of me. The main subject of this issue is obesity. It's worth reading. The articles and their intros: "Cellular Warriors at the Battle of the Bulge: Researchers are picking apart the molecular signals the body uses to regulate its weight -- work that may lead to new antiobesity drugs" "Obesity Drug Pipeline Not So Fat: Eating right and exercising be damned; the search is on for drugs that can control obesity" "Obesity and the Environment: Where Do We Go from Here?" (This is the story that has been in the news for the past couple of weeks having to do with achieving "small changes in behavior, such as 15 minutes per day of walking or eating a few less bites at each meal.") "A War on Obesity, Not the Obese: In their efforts to lose weight, obese individuals may be fighting a powerful set of evolutionary forces honed in an environment drastically different from that of today" "A Clinical View of the Obesity Problem"

Angel's Thai on Broadway has gone out of business. In its place will be something called Canal Asian Bar & Grill. There's a new Vietnamese place on the ground floor of the Press condo building (Pike & Boylston??) called Green Papaya. Scrat68 mentions a place called Lemongrass on another thread. Is this new? I'm intrigued since it's so close to work.

"The food is just horrible, and the portions are so small!"

If you can afford it, I highly recommend that you reconsider and rent a car. If you're going to San Diego, you really need to drive on the coast, go to La Jolla Cove, etc. Unless you live on the coast and see it every day, of course. I grew up in San Diego, so I know. You must have a car if possible. Edit: I like what they've done with the Gaslamp District. There are plenty of restaurants, but nothing stellar that I know of.

American restaurant portions are far too big. Let the suing commence!

They edited it after I sent them a nice email. They are that responsive.

But it doesn't always happen. My smoke alarm goes off WHEN I BOIL WATER. And my building isn't old.

Yeah, and that take on it just sucks ALL the fun and joy out of eating in a restaurant.

I was planning to go on Friday.

There's the old cliche of the waiter in the fancy restaurant wrapping leftovers in foil, then forming the foil into the shape of a swan. I know I've seen this in old movies. Thus, it seems to me that it has been de rigeur for people to take leftovers home from fine restaurants for a very long time.

If you guys plan to go, I'd be able to go too. I think last time it was on a Monday, which is always bad for me. Anyone interested?

Mmmmmm . . . . . gravy.

Take a look at Brasserie Margaux's website. I laughed at the word "raving." Are they calling the reviewer an incoherent madwoman? http://www.margauxseattle.com/

It was!! And the raspberry sorbet was delicious and had a very intense flavor.

As I am stuck on the top of Queen Anne every Monday night, I was upset to read that this place is CLOSED Mondays!!

Hey twit! Where were ya? (worried . . . )

Yes. Mine involves an elevator. What goes down, must come up?

Welcome, SeattleGrrl!!

If you've had them and feel comfortable, can you comment on the quality of the shakes at the places where you didn't specifically note the shakes?

They definitely need a weekly local food show, but NOT with HCC. Uh uh. Would not listen to that. I would listen if Mamster was on though. Hey... an idea! An e-gullet show!! Public access? Public radio? hmmmm...... That's exactly why I said not those folks. Last time HCC was on, she got needlessly pissy. I remember it was right before Thanksgiving. I was thinking, "Woah, if you didn't want to do the show, you should've just said 'no thanks.'" Mamster on the radio -- that would be brilliant. And he has a wicked laugh.

I definitely think KUOW needs a weekly food show. They have a wildly popular weekly show about gardening, so why not all things food? They occasionally have on Hsiao-Ching Chou and the man who runs(?) Chefshop, maybe every 3 months or so, but I'm sure it would be popular as a more regular feature. Maybe not with those folks in particular.

I remember parties in college where they'd serve Strip-N-Go-Nakeds. I have no idea what was in them, but they didn't taste good. Watching frat boys do beer bongs was always fascinating in a Jane Goodall kind of way.