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Thread: Seattle is dying
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11-19-2019, 11:56 AM #576
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11-19-2019, 12:01 PM #577
ha ha, gawd no.
Although this year we actually have a "rush hour" on some of the arterials. But it doesn't last an hour.
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11-19-2019, 12:09 PM #578
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11-19-2019, 12:14 PM #579
Kamonegi and Kedai Makan are both on our "to try" list. Small/tough to get in though.
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11-19-2019, 12:20 PM #580
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11-19-2019, 12:21 PM #581
Compare Portland or SF for food and restaurants, let alone LA.
I just don't see Seattle in the same league for restaurants as these cities and I'd be amazed if anyone with that sort of broad view would.
No, I wouldn't want to live in any of those cities at least because the skiing is better here. But that doesn't justify inflating the restaurant scene here to be better than those cities.Merde De Glace On the Freak When Ski
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11-19-2019, 12:22 PM #582
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11-19-2019, 12:33 PM #583
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11-19-2019, 12:40 PM #584
Pioneer Square area today has the same vibe as the vibe I felt walking in NYC in 1979. Drugs, homeless, panhandlers, hookers, pimps and drug dealers. I'd see them all when I walked from the train station to 7th Ave for sales meetings. It eventually got cleaned up with a program to incarcerate tens of thousands for minor crimes. Ruined 1,000,000 lives. Bloomberg just offered an apology for the way he did it. Local radio host law and order tough guy Doryi Monson, has suggested that the homeless be beaten with a stick. He's still on the air with an audience so times don't change in some ways.
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11-19-2019, 10:51 PM #585
Ha, yeah I have gathered that buster is a bit of a food curmudgeon and has a few decades of seattle experience under his belt. But the restaurant scene is ever-changing in the various hoods and is pretty good overall..gotta live amongst it and not in the boonies to realistically keep up I would think, just my opinion.
And yes, there are better food cities than here, no doubt.
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11-19-2019, 11:28 PM #586Good-lookin' wool
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Seattle is dying
Any restaurant of decent reputation at peak hour has been noisy in seattle proper for as long as I can remember but I’ve only really been dining in it for 15 years. The 5 previous years involved incidental meals paired with whatever hooch I chucked down my booze ditch. I still have my seattle favorites and know I will often times pay a spacial and auditory penalty, although the downstairs at Harvest Vine is still quiet compared to the kennel-like atmosphere upstairs.
I won’t compare one city to another but we are lucky to have some gems that are more tucked away if you are willing to travel. I had a meal on Orcas this summer by a Beard nominee, great place in Leavenworth of all places, Mana, Cafe Jaunita is a drive for me but I don’t find that atmosphere overbearing, etc etc. And not being a Saturday at 8pm warrior helps. A stop in for early simple grub at Westward at 5:30 is quiet or I can walk up to Ma’ono for good calm eats just about anytime. It’s what you make it and I don’t find any one particular generalization compelling.
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11-20-2019, 07:13 AM #587
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11-20-2019, 07:20 AM #588
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11-20-2019, 07:41 AM #589Registered User
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Most big cities in America cleaned up at that time. Guiliani just happened to be mayor at the time.
The most likely cause is that when leaded gasoline was banned, we stopped turning kids into violent crime-bots. It took 15 years to work through the system as the lead-brain kids aged out of the violent years.U.P.: up
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11-20-2019, 08:55 AM #590
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11-20-2019, 10:30 AM #596Good-lookin' wool
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11-20-2019, 10:38 AM #597
The only restaurants that closed were the generic big conglomerate shitty ones that were bound to go under anyways. Shitty pre cooked food in a big open space with a great tap list doesnt always work out even when backed by big money
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11-20-2019, 11:10 AM #598
All those talking shit on Seattle cuisine should remember that Red Robin started in Seattle. Home of the bottomless fries and everyone’s favorite dining establishment if in the 3-16yr old crowd.
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11-20-2019, 11:31 AM #599
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11-20-2019, 11:38 AM #600
Man glad not to have to hit RR for kids bdays anymore. After they closed the one by Univ bridge it was more mall trips to hell.
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