I asked to be taken to Kurrent last year on recommendation of a Stranger writer and it was one of the worst restaurant meals I'd ever had. So I feel for the laid-off staff but am not surprised it's gone.
In the glimmer-of-hope department, if not in time for these establishments: the Restaurant Performance Index just ticked up to its highest point since the bomb dropped in January '07. http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2010/1…
Frankly, I've felt so robbed going out to restaurants in Seattle the past few years, that I generally don't anymore. And with the Great Recession still in full swing, it really doesn't shock me that upscale places are having a hard time surviving past the third course.
I remember when restaurants used to last for years and years. Any way of bringing back My Susie's Oriental Lounge, the Jade Pagoda, and the Dog House?
Buh-bye 'Table 35'. Where 'familiar food, moderately priced' meant '45 minutes for an unremarkable > $12 hamburger with only one other table to wait on'. And nothing on the menu if you don't want something 'heavy' beyond a 'side salad'. West Seattle didn't really need a cross between 13 Coins and West 5, minus the personality of either.
I really hope the meatloaf / burgers / Mac n cheese / chicken-fried gravy popper / $10 hot dogs trend in startup restaurant menus goes away soon. If I want 'home cookin" I'll cook at home.
@10, I pass that corner often, and Japonessa is filling tables like none of its predecessors ever did, lunch and dinner, day after day after day since opening, so fingers crossed.
I have also heard good things about the new tenant of 1st and Union. Cheap and delish is what they say. I am a cheap bastard, so when I go out it is for pho or yoshino teriyaki.
Way to be on top of a story Slog. Table 35 closed over a month ago. You've once again proven if it doesn't happen within a 10 block radius of Pike and Broadway your lazy bloggers couldn't give a shit! There's more going on in Seattle other then what happens on the Hill you know.
If a restaurant isn't honoring restaurant.com discount certificates, and has a two-week interval for renewing its liquor license, and doesn't update its website to show it's no longer honoring restaurant.com discount certificates, is it close to flatlining?
Table 35 did not die because of its location. It died because its service was abominable. Ovio Bistro fared pretty decently and folded, not because of its financial viability but because of issues in the personal lives of the (very nice) owners.
I miss Ama Ama. Yes, the service was spotty, but the seafood was high-quality and varied. Now there's no decent place in West Seattle for seafood if you want choices beyond salmon and halibut.
That's a tough corner. If the only gay bar in West Seattle couldn't survive there, I'm not sure anything can.
Doesn't mean it's not closing, but it wasn't closed all of last week.
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2010/1…
I remember when restaurants used to last for years and years. Any way of bringing back My Susie's Oriental Lounge, the Jade Pagoda, and the Dog House?
I really hope the meatloaf / burgers / Mac n cheese / chicken-fried gravy popper / $10 hot dogs trend in startup restaurant menus goes away soon. If I want 'home cookin" I'll cook at home.
maybe there should be a thread for that... addresses in Seattle where one should NOT open a business.
That's a tough corner. If the only gay bar in West Seattle couldn't survive there, I'm not sure anything can.