Some wonderful restaurant writing, Angela, just as I've come to expect from you.
You've made me resolve to hop on a light rail train and check out Bar Del Corso, and that's not a place I would have otherwise been motivated to visit. I'm with you on the value of "the restaurants that are built to last." I value Seattle as a city where you can keep coming back to your favorite neighborhood restaurants year after year, not as a city with a hot restaurant openings scene. And when I do go to a new restaurant (like No Bones Beach Club, which you recently reviewed), it's with an eye to coming back there. (In the case of No Bones Beach Club, mission accomplished.
You've made me resolve to hop on a light rail train and check out Bar Del Corso, and that's not a place I would have otherwise been motivated to visit. I'm with you on the value of "the restaurants that are built to last." I value Seattle as a city where you can keep coming back to your favorite neighborhood restaurants year after year, not as a city with a hot restaurant openings scene. And when I do go to a new restaurant (like No Bones Beach Club, which you recently reviewed), it's with an eye to coming back there. (In the case of No Bones Beach Club, mission accomplished.