Noah Corwin has worked as a host at Belltown’s Mama’s Mexican Kitchen for three years. His first day on the job was just after his 17th birthday. “But,” he says, “I’ve been coming here basically forever.”
Days after he was born, Corwin’s parents took him to a meal at Mama’s. It was the first restaurant he ever went to. And now Corwin spends several days a week there, beginning and ending each day by embracing a life-size sculpture of Elvis Presley and carrying it to and from its post just outside Mama’s front door.
Mama’s, a Belltown fixture since it opened in 1974, is built on many stories like Corwin’s.
Bella Biagio, a server and night manager at Mama’s, has worked at the restaurant for 18 years. She tried working at other restaurants, but she kept finding herself back at Mama’s. “It’s the only place where they always allowed me to be who I am,” Biagio says…
