My Liver is So Happy About This
Clever Dunnes Irish House will be leaving the Olive Way space they've occupied for seventeen thousand years at the end of the month, they recently announced via Facebook. I haven't visited the creaky old place since I was young and dumb and non-diabetic enough to drink Jäger, but I'm sure I have a ton of happy non-memories there. However, for some, the Dunnes was a de facto living room and I'm sure they're bummin' pretty hard right now. Condolences to all the regulars, enjoy one more week of drinking cheap booze and complaining about how much the Hill sucks now.
Then, in a month or so...
Tiki Takes Over
When the Dunnes moves out, Hula Hula, the Lower Queene Anne karaoke favorite that's losing its space, will take over, says Hula Hula owner Keith Robbins. When I interviewed Robbins about the demise of his popular corner martini lounge Tini Bigs, he vowed never to reopen that bar, but said he was hoping to keep the Hula Hula dream alive. Apparently, that magical dream of getting absolutely shaffazed on drinks with tiny umbrellas and embarrassing yourself in front of your friends was not meant to die yet. Robbins tells CHS he plans to "tiki the shit" out of it. Here's hoping that means he's going to something truly extreme like covering the floor in sand and piping in the sound of waves crashing.
Dilettante Has Been Open for 41 Years?
Holy shit, that's a lot of chocolatinis. However, the company announced it would be closing its Broadway "Mocha Cafe" location at the end of the month, according to CHS, so you'll have to look elsewhere for your '90s indulgence. I hear Tini's is big on those.
Goodbye Fatburger, Hello Fat Me
At 2 in the morning, you, unlike Ice Cube, won’t be getting Fatburger. That’s because the city’s only Fatburger, over on Alki, is now closed reports West Seattle Blog. The burger chain will be replaced by a new venture from Indianapolis sandwich shop, B's Po Boys. Hell yes! One of my all-time favorite meals is a huge, messy roast beef po boy at New Orleans' Parkway Tavern, and if B's can help recreate that experience, I'm all for it. Although I'd be fine never drinking Dixie again. Shit tastes like Splenda.
The New Lagunitas Brewery and Taproom is Open in Ballard
There's an Emoji For Everything
Even food safety, apparently. King County Public Health will now require restaurants to conspicuously post a smiley face that denotes their level of compliance. This being Seattle, there is no sad face, because we don't express our negative emotions, ever. There will only be a nonplussed, gray smiley for a restaurant that experiences a high volume of (as the weird lady who most of us got our food handler's permit from used to say), "toilet paper failures."
New Chefs and No Chefs
Corvus and Co. has new blood in the kitchen after losing their previous chef, Mac Jarvis, to David Chang and the bright lights of Vegas. Tanner Woods, who ran the kitchen at Linda's, and Kevin Jones, most recently of Sitka and Spruce, have taken over, reports Eater. Of the move, a friend of mine who loves Corvus and Co said, "I just hope they don't fuck up the Lamb Benedict." I had it last weekend, at her urging, and it's still dope.
Further South, Sisters and Brothers can't seem to keep a chef, so they just decided to not have one. I'm sure this will work out just fine, because that chicken recipe is so damn amazing you could have a monkey cook it and it'd still be fire. Speaking of monkeys cooking...
