What's Good, What's Not, Good, Downtown

 I'd recommend Avenue One on 1st Avenue, three-four blocks north of the
 market. Good food and nice service (at least when I was there). Now, they do
 play jazz but only in the bar (and it's neither loud or bad).

 Johan

 Someone wrote:
 > Coming up from Olympia for a long-term contract and will be living
 downtown.
 > What's good, what's not good, in the downtown/Belltown area? I did this
 once
 > before, and have done the Flying Fish, Chef Wang, Pink Door circuit, and
 am
 > looking for inspiration on out of the way, off the radar places within
 > either a good walk or short drive from the Market. Walking distance
 > preferred - and I consider walking distance (provided it's safe) pretty
 much
 > from Denny to Pioneer Square, or from Alaskan Way to Broadway. ALL types
 of
 > cuisine are open - as long as they don't play loud, bad jazz (which 99.9%
 of
 > Seattle restaurants seem to do), and aren't air conditioned to the point
 of
 > freezing the food on the plate (which 99.9% of Seattle restaurants seem to
 > be). Challenging to be sure, but I know there are places out there that
 meet
 > my criteria.
 >
 >