Description: A remarkably popular Eastlake eatery that serves
high-end Italian cuisine.
Decor: Brick walls, elegant strings of lights.
Name origin: According to the owner, the name Serafina
denotes a fiery beauty and was drawn from a character in Federico
Fellini’s 8½.
Discomfiting postinterview findings: The Serafina of
8½ is actually an ugly whore. Modeled after a
beach-dwelling prostitute from Fellini’s youth who traded her body to
local seamen in exchange for sardines, La Saraghina is famously
portrayed in the movie performing (for pay) a spastic, sexual dance
before a group of adolescent boys.
Happy hours: Mon–Fri 4–6 pm.
Happy-hour drink specials: $6 house red or white wine, $3 tap
and bottled beer (Red Menace, Tecate, and others), $4.50 well
drinks.
Happy-hour food specials: Discounted small plates, such as
$10 salsicce di coniglio (house-made rabbit sausage with red
wine sauce and farro) or $6 plin (ravioli stuffed with braised
pork, savoy cabbage, and Reggiano cheese). 
Barely off Capital Hill
The spelling is Capitol Hill, hot shot.
What about the Rimrock? That was in Lake City. And it’s Capitol not Capital, I hate that shit. In fact, in the last twenty of her Happiest Hours Marti has written about Capitol Hill three times. The same frequency as Ballard. Marti has written about downtown five times in the last twenty. It’s clear. Marti is downtown centric.
Everyone knows the Stranger might as well be the Capital Hill Times – is that still around? I thought the Rimrock was in N. Portland anyway. Get over yourselves.
BTW Capital is defines as “a city (or hill) regarded as being of special eminence in some field of activity” – please try to recognize sarcasm before replying using your spell check skills.
Hey Resident, please try to read and spell check your sentences before replying sarcastically.