Location: Downtown, inside Pacific Place.
Description: An impossibly vast franchise restaurant,
brimming with big-budget decor, schmaltzy music, and aging
professionals.
Redeeming attributes: Free appetizers during happy hour!
What else is free: The best things in life (e.g., moonbeams,
whiskery grandmothers, obese squirrels, and deep-set panty lines).
Happy hours: Mon–Fri 4:30–6:30 pm.
Happy-hour drink specials: $4 glasses of select wine, $3.50
drafts (including Moretti and Sierra Nevada).
Complimentary happy-hour food specials: Buffalo wings,
delightfully crispy pizza, and a rotating assortment of chef’s-choice
treats (pasta, bruschetta, more).
Amount of guilt one should feel about mercilessly plundering the
Il Fornaio food offerings: None.
