Queen Anne / Seattle Center Area Recommendations?

 > Evan C. wrote:
 >
 > >I recently moved from downtown to Queen Anne, and wondered if the group
 > >would like to address recommendations for restaraunts in the QA (Upper
 > >or Lower) / Needle area?  Best Italian? Best overall? Best Thai?
 > >Favorite bar?  Any other places?  Whatever's on your mind, as long as it
 > >isn't trying to sell me something!
 >

 I have worked as a stagehand at Seattle Center for about 4 years, and have
 always been a bit disapointed with the variety of food available.
 When we do a load in at the Opera house or a load out at the Seattle Rep.,
 we always have the inevitable choice of what to eat for lunch.
 My favorite place is the Thai Restaurant, on 1st , a few blocks south of
 the Key Arena.
 It has some of the best Thai food in Seattle, and quite a respectable heat
 range.
 On Sundays, when The Thai Restaurant is closed I go to Thai Kitchen.
 It has good food at good prices, and I feel like I'm getting a better deal
 than Thai Heaven.
 Dick's burgers are OK, but I find it hard to work on that much grease.
 Paliachi's Pizza has good pizza, but once again the grease factor, I
 preferr their pastas, and killer salads.
 THere actually is something good to eat in the Centerhouse food court.
 At the Vietnamese place , you have got to try their BanBow.
  Kind of like a chinese Humbow, but filled with a wonderful mix of meat
 and vegetables instead of BBQ pork.
 They are huge, and wonderful. Other than that , avoid the rest of the food
 court, although someone said there is a killer vege pizza there at one of
 the newer places.
 Funny thing about the centerhouse foodcourt, at any one time, there are
 usually at least ten union stagehands on coffee break there.
 Probably the most popular place to eat for us is the QFC deli.

 McMenimans is pretty good as a restaurant /Pub.
 Good hot sandwiches, and other hearty food.

 Avoid Sorry Charlie's like the plague. It's other name is Sad Chuck's, and
 that describes just about everything in there.
 The Mecca was off limits for Union Stagehands for many years because of
 unfair labor practices, but I have heard that recently that was resolved.

 There is a lot of mediocre italian, and an outstanding Middle eastern
 place right at the base of Queen anne hill.
 I can't remember the name, but it had good food.

 On 11 Jul 1997 06:31:42 GMT in seattle.eats, [email removed] (ToBru)
 wrote:

 >Best Thai -- or at least tied for first with two others in this thread --
 >would be "Thai," located on 1st, down from the Coliseum (that's XCorp
 >Arena to you newcomers).
 >They serve Thai food spiced the way I love it -- 3 stars leaves me mopping
 >my brow.

 Yeah, their Bathing Rama (beef in hot peanut sauce on a bed of
 spinach) with 3 stars needs at least 2 bowls of rice and 2 Singhas for
 me --- it always brings tears to my eyes!

 I was introduced to this fine little family-owned place when my
 brother was a projectionist at the Science Center IMAX --- easy way to
 get there for out of town visitors is to take the monorail from
 downtown, walk up to the front gate of the science center, turn right,
 and follow the path through the gate and head straight down the hill
 to the corner of 1st and John.

 It's almost always the first restaurant I head to when I go to Seattle
 --- the second used to be the late lamented Beeliner Diner.

 And for the Queea Anne area, the sushi bar at Larry's Market across
 from the Coliseum is pretty good, especially if you're looking for a
 nice picnic lunch.

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 Ernie L. wrote:

 >McMenimans is pretty good as a restaurant /Pub.
 >Good hot sandwiches, and other hearty food.

 Don't go to the Queen Anne McMenamin's expecting much more than
 pub food, though.  Mostly fried stuff.  The two house pastas are
 rather ordinary.  The best McM's for food are in Portland, OR:
 the Black Rabbit restaurant at Edgefield, and Ringlers on W. Burnside.

 >There is a lot of mediocre italian, and an outstanding Middle eastern
 >place right at the base of Queen anne hill.
 >I can't remember the name, but it had good food.

 That Mid-eastern place (the folks who run it are Lebanese) would be
 the Mediterranean Kitchen at 4 West Roy.  In the immortal words of
 the late, great John Rios (Cafe Sabika and John, R.I.P.), "Come
 and get your garlic!"

 ToBru wrote:

 >When you're just really hungry and thristy and don't feel like washing
 >dishes Floyd's makes some of the better bbq outside the Central District.

 Not too bad, at any rate.  The two Mac's joints (near the Kingdome on
 1st Ave S, and way down south on E. Marginal Way S near the Boeing
 Developmental Center) are also passable.  Decent selections of beer at
 Floyd's and Mac's, too.

 >By the way, everybody, once you've tried the General, where else do you go
 >for BBQ?  I can't say I know of any one "true authentic" bbq, but where do
 >they make it taste good?

 Pecos Pit, on 1st Ave. S, across the street from the SODO/Starbuck's (and
 former Sears) building.  Parking is annoying sometimes (got a #%$! ticket
 last time because I didn't see the "No Parking South of Here" high on the
 side of a building), lunchtime only, very popular, open 11AM - 3PM, killer
 hot sauce, really smoky, flavorful, tender, and good beef and pork, Texas-
 style BBQ.

 Agreed on Thai Restaurant at 1st and John - I used to live next door and
 ate there very often. The food is wonderful.
 I also really like Thai Heaven on Roy - far superior IMO to Bahn Thai -
 the salmon panang special is great.

 Has anyone tried the new "faux" diner on Roy yet?  I don't know the name,
 it's in a renovated garage...

 Laura

 The OK Coral at 8733 Greenwood Ave. N. has great BBQ ribs and chicken.
 They give  huge portion along with potato salad (cajun style) and some
 type of fritters.

 they also have catfish, which I did not try.

 Judy

  On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, John G. wrote:

 > In article , [email removed] (Rick
 > Lackner) wrote:
 >
 > >
 > > >I assume they're located in the same building as Porters, and the first
 > > >phone number belongs to the restaurant (?).
 > >
 > > Actually, I don't think ther's an auto repair service there anymore, I think
 > > the BBQ took over the whole place.  At least I see no room there to fix cars
 > > anymore :)  It was originally a garage, but the story I've heard is that
 > Porter
 > > served up some of his BBQ to workers on 520 one summer day and they told
 > him he
 > > had to sell the stuff to the public.  He started selling BBQ out of part
 > of the
 > > garage and it just took over the place.
 >
 > A bit too much urban legand in there... Gene used to BBQ for his church,
 > and over
 > the years it grew in to quite a production, until some of his friends convinced
 > him to give it a shot. So three or four years ago, he opened up the food joint
 > in front of his automotive business, and, well, economics being what they are,
 > the food took over, helped in part by word-of-wire here on the internet. I don't
 > think he ever has really advertised much.
 >
 > Once I went in with my truck, which was not running real well, and I asked him
 > what he thought it might be. He told me to go get my lunch while he had a look.
 > As I am licking the last of the sauce from my fingers he walks up.... "All
 > fixed!"
 > which was worth twice the price of the box of Cigars I brought him!
 >
 >

 Whenever friends came in from out of town over the last few years, we
 brought home large combinations of BBQ from The OK Coral and everybody
 loved it. The new location down the street should really put this place on
 the map.