This is an official Seattle-restaurants Big Deal: In the old Restaurant Zoe location, the Coterie Room is the third joint venture from decorated chefs Brian McCracken and Dana Tough (Spur Gastropub, Tavern Law). It's more focused on food, but sure to have excellent cocktails, too; while those under 21 are allowed, they'd better behave—it's got chandeliers and "elegance and class," if the gents do say so themselves.

They also promise "approachable and delicious, good American classics," e.g., sweet onion macaroni and cheese, poutine (Canadian, but whatever), beet salad, and main courses like duck leg confit, seared sea scallops, a rib-eye, and a burger. (Entrees range from $17 to $35, mostly leaning towards the latter, which may not seem so approachable to some of us.) (Also, I am now hungry.) The word "coterie," in case you've forgotten, means "an intimate and often exclusive group of persons with a unifying common interest or purpose."