"My grandfather didn't understand why fine dining was so formal and had all this pretension around it.", says the owner of the only Seattle restaurant that requires a suit jacket.

I would pay to go to a family meal. Looks good and fun. But outsiders would ruin the concept.

yummy...

This looks a little bit better than a place I worked where the staff meal was dumped on a self-serve hot line in the basement across from the shitters, and then left to congeal. We called it the "staff infection."

Canlis as a restaurant has gone up and down over the years, but they are increasingly a beacon for the rest of the working world. You wish you worked there. @1, put on a fucking decent jacket for once in your life, it won't hurt you. You might even like it. I have never received less pretentious service than one of the star meals I've had at Canlis. Expensive though.