Pat My Butter

lunch is a terrible thing to waste.  and yet, it happens so often.  more than any other meal, lunch is likely to be overpriced and underwhelming, or cheap and forgettable.  frankly, i find it a waste to go to lunch at all if i’m not able to have a glass or two of wine with [...]

as evidenced by blogs, chit chat, passersby raising their sunglasses to peer at liquor applications on windows, the opening of a bar or restaurant in our hood is an exciting proposition.  it’s not that there aren’t a lot of places already, but with so many nights in the year, getting weary of all but the [...]

i don’t go out to breakfast.  unless you count a biscotti at noon at victrola, which i really don’t.  for one thing, if i’m up during breakfast hours, i don’t want to be in public.  for another, no one i know is up during those hours, much less willing to be in public.  and lastly, [...]

there are a lot of perks to being in the restaurant industry, particularly if you’re a social person.  it becomes difficult to go to a restaurant without knowing some or all of the staff, and you inevitably have things vanish off your bill, receive special dishes (often fun offal) as gifts, get a shot of [...]

when i left el mestizo the other night, i was full. so full that i was happy to pass up dessert without even “just looking” at the menu, so full i was happy i was on foot, so full that i felt perfectly confident in drinking tequila for the rest of the night.
and not full [...]

i’d been to spring hill for spaghetti.  i’d been there for fried chicken.  i’d heard rumors about their burger.  but in all the time they’ve been open, i’d never laid eyes upon their real menu (ok, fine, maybe online).  largely, it’s that whole getting-to-west-seattle thing…
this menu radiates what so many places lately have been lacking [...]

perhaps it’s not fair to make a whole post out of a place where i had just prosciutto, cheese, and drinks.  but once i got writing, it just didn’t seem fair to combine it with anything else.
lampreia. site of my most disappointing (if you use a money to quality ratio) meal ever. apparently [...]

it’s going to be the summer of new restaurants in seattle.
i recently hit up two so new they’re still blinking in the sunlight.  they sound like they might be a cute brother and sister pair.  it was luc’s first week open and marjorie’s second day – too early for real reviews to be appropriate, but [...]

you don’t go for the atmosphere.  the tabletops have given up a bit of their once-festive pink with every plate cleared from them.  grease lounges on the ceiling towards the back and the cheaply framed pictures are hilariously random.  there’s a photo of a plastic horse.  one of a mountain lake and one of the [...]