Seattle Restaurants - A year of organics, blogs and cheese, glorious cheese
This was the year we saw Alexandria's, Axis and Barocho close ... and that's just the A's and B's in Belltown this month. It was the year we raved about newcomers Black Bottle and Crush, and welcomed the likes of da Pino and Eats Market Cafe, and we could go on and on.
It was a year that Seattle became an even more fun and interesting and wonderful place to dine (except for all the so-so food, but that's what we're here to help you avoid).
Here are 10 things, in no particular order, that stood out in Seattle's restaurant scene in 2005:
1. More Ballard than thou: It was the year that Columbia City (Geraldine's Kitchen, Columbia City Bakery) became the new Ballard, except that Ballard itself (Volterra, BalMar) kept getting notable new eateries to watch. Note that Volterra also broke Seattle's longstanding curse of The New and Merely Mediocre Italian Restaurant.
2. Organic and more: As we've often said, we're spoiled in Seattle, with the assumption that local-seasonal-organic is our birthright. We have the luxury of getting itchy about all the menus we see reading "organic whenever possible" without giving parameters for "possible." Does it mean whenever affordable? Procurable? Reasonable? Occasional?
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Source - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Here are 10 things, in no particular order, that stood out in Seattle's restaurant scene in 2005:
1. More Ballard than thou: It was the year that Columbia City (Geraldine's Kitchen, Columbia City Bakery) became the new Ballard, except that Ballard itself (Volterra, BalMar) kept getting notable new eateries to watch. Note that Volterra also broke Seattle's longstanding curse of The New and Merely Mediocre Italian Restaurant.
2. Organic and more: As we've often said, we're spoiled in Seattle, with the assumption that local-seasonal-organic is our birthright. We have the luxury of getting itchy about all the menus we see reading "organic whenever possible" without giving parameters for "possible." Does it mean whenever affordable? Procurable? Reasonable? Occasional?
External Source - For the complete article click here
Source - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
